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The Castrato

Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292448
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Castrato written by Martha Feldman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.

The Castrato

Author : Joyce Pool
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935954415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Castrato written by Joyce Pool and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This young adult novel shines a light on the life of the boys whose pure voices would never change. The politics, the intrigue, and the all-encompassing music rises from the pages of this enthralling, disturbing novel.

The Modern Castrato

Author : Patricia Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199365202
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Castrato written by Patricia Howard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Guadagni may have been the only singer of the time fully able to understand the demands and opportunities of this reform, as well to possess the intelligence and self-knowledge to realize that it suited his skills, limitations and temperament perfectly--making him the first castrato to embrace the concepts of modern singing.

The Castrato

Author : Lawrence Goldman
Publisher : John Day Company, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Castrato written by Lawrence Goldman and published by John Day Company, Incorporated. This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical fiction on the great soprano Farinelli, 1705-1782.

Moreschi and the Voice of the Castrato

Author : Nicholas Clapton
Publisher : Haus Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781905791422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Moreschi and the Voice of the Castrato written by Nicholas Clapton and published by Haus Pub.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the 'Angel of Rome,' Alessandro Moreschi was the last surviving castrato singer of the Vatican choir, and the only castrati whose voice was recorded. Its ethereal, haunting quality was highly prized for centuries in the papal basilicas and opera houses of Europe (readers can request a copy on CD using details in the book). The castrati tradition was established in Italy in the sixteenth century by Pope Clement VIII, and by the seventeenth century had moved onto the secular operatic stage, where castrato singers were feted as the 'pop stars' of their day. No other singers came close to matching their fame and notoriety. By the nineteenth century, however, their very existence had become an embarrassment, and when Moreschi himself joined the Sistine Chapel in 1883, there were only six castrati left inthe choir, and by 1903 they were officially no more. The strange and lonely life of Alessandro Moreschi was lived in the shadows of great events and great institutions, his personality glimpsed only by inference and allusion. Written by the acclaimed musicologist and countertenor Nicholas Clapton, this is a perceptive and informed study of the last survivor of a perennially intriguing part of Western cultural history. Clapton addresses the complexities inherent in such a complicated and historically neglected subject, establishing that castratisingers were an integral part of the lineage of Western music that should not be judged or condemned from the perspective of the twenty-first century. A professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music,Nicholas Clapton's career as a counter-tenor has seen him particularly involved in performing the repertoire of the great castrati. In 2006, he produced and presented a television documentary on the castrato voice for the BBC.

Portrait of a Castrato

Author : Roger Freitas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521885213
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Castrato written by Roger Freitas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into the life and music-making of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century, castrato Atto Melani.

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843611
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England written by Alanna Skuse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness

Author : Fred Everett Maus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199793631
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness written by Fred Everett Maus and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1990s, academic study of LGBTQ issues in relation to music centered on classical music, and the research topics and researchers were mostly white. The scope of the field has expanded greatly since then, with ongoing research on classical music, extensive work on white popular music, a growing literature on Black music, and recent initiatives in ethnomusicology. The term "queer" has risen as a welcome intention of inclusiveness, along with some complexity in its meanings. In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness, contributors choose their relationship to the term as it relates to their work within and without the academic community. Offering a decisive departure from a Western- and Eurocentric approach to music, this Handbook reflects different rhetorics of queer musicology. Chapters look at music and queer experience across a range of venues and approaches, from gospel to electronic dance music; from Hong Kong public music to Ukrainian pop. Together, contributors illustrate the potential of queer methodologies in the musical realm, and where we go from here. Keywords: queer musicology, ethnomusicology, queer performance, popular music, queer theory, music and sexuality, LGBTQ studies"--

Moreschi

Author : Nicholas Clapton
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Moreschi written by Nicholas Clapton and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the extraordinary sound of the voice of ‘the last castrato’ lies a strange and lonely life lived in the shadow of great events and institutions, a personality glimpsed by inference and allusion.

Cry to Heaven

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345396936
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Cry to Heaven written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe. These men are revered as idols—and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not. Praise for Anne Rice and Cry to Heaven “Daring and imaginative . . . [Anne] Rice seems like nothing less than a magician: It is a pure and uncanny talent that can give a voice to monsters and angels both.”—The New York Times Book Review “To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinnning through the mind of time.”—San Francisco Chronicle “If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”—The Boston Globe “Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident.”—Time

Voicing Gender

Author : Naomi Adele André
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253346445
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Voicing Gender written by Naomi Adele André and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the changes in approaches to gender in opera in the early 19th century.

The World of the Castrati

Author : Patrick Barbier
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 9780285634602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Castrati written by Patrick Barbier and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining, authoritative book is the first study of the phenomenon of the castrati in relation to the baroque period, covering the lives and triumphs of more than 60 singers over three centuries, when the fashion for castrati was at its peak.

Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance

Author : Touba Ghadessi
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580442765
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance written by Touba Ghadessi and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The study traces how these monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. The works examined here point to the intricate cultural, religious, ethical, and scientific perceptions of monstrous individuals who were fixtures in contemporary courts.

Italy’s Eighteenth Century

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759049
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Italy’s Eighteenth Century written by Paula Findlen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

The Manly Masquerade

Author : Valeria Finucci
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330653
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Manly Masquerade written by Valeria Finucci and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnalyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc./div

Budapest

Author : Nicholas Clapton
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190996140X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Budapest written by Nicholas Clapton and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singer Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discovered a striking sense of otherness in spite of Hungary’s central geographical and cultural position within Europe. And with that, a deep passion for the city was born. Budapest offers an engaging and affectionate look at this beautiful capital from the perspective of a musician who lived and worked there for many years. With rich musical traditions, both classical and folk, and possessing a language like almost no other, Hungary is in the process of abandoning the trappings of its communist past while attempting to preserve its culture from creeping globalization. Clapton delights in the fact that certain old-fashioned attitudes of courtesy, at times stemming from the very structures of the Magyar tongue, are still deeply ingrained in Hungarian society. At the same time, despite its association with world-famous composers such as Bartók, Liszt, and Kodály, music is far from an activity enjoyed only by the elite. Including plenty of tips on food, drink, and sites of interest, Budapest describes the capital in uniquely melodic terms and will delight lovers of travel and music alike.

The Alteration

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176170
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Alteration written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is “one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence” (Philip K. Dick). In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice. In the audience is a select group of experts whose job is to determine whether that faultless voice should be preserved by performing a certain operation. Art, after all, is worth any sacrifice. How Hubert realizes what lies in store for him and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in are the subject of a classic piece of counterfactual fiction equal to Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976.