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Author | : Patrick Barbier |
Publisher | : Souvenir Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Castrati |
ISBN | : 9780285634602 |
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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.
Author | : Alanna Skuse |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108843611 |
Download Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
Author | : Martha Feldman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2016-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520292448 |
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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.
Author | : Anne Rice |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1995-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345396936 |
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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
Author | : Martha Feldman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2015-02-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520962036 |
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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.
Author | : Patrick Barbier |
Publisher | : Souvenir Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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This entertaining and authoritative study of the castrati during the baroque period explores the lives and triumphs of more than 60 singers over three centuries-their social origins, training, and relationship to society and church. Blending history and anecdote, it traces the course of a phenomenon that held Europe in its thrall. People were fascinated by these hybrids-part man, part woman, and part child-who became virile heroes on the operatic stage. The reader will learn of the horrors of castration, the nature of the strange castrato voice, and the conflicts these singers experienced.
Author | : Naomi Adele André |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780253346445 |
Download Voicing Gender Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Documents the changes in approaches to gender in opera in the early 19th century.
Author | : Valeria Finucci |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2003-03-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822384477 |
Download The Manly Masquerade Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso, and Ariosto. Valeria Finucci shows how ideas of masculinity were formed in the midst of acute anxiety about paternity by highlighting the beliefs—widely held at the time—that conception could occur without a paternal imprimatur or through a woman’s encounter with an animal, or even that a pregnant woman’s imagination could erase the father’s "signature" from the fetus. Against these visions of reproduction gone awry, Finucci looks at how concepts of masculinity were tied to issues of paternity through social standing, legal matters, and inheritance practices. Highlighting the fissures running through Italian Renaissance ideas of manliness, Finucci describes how, alongside pervasive images of the virile, sexually active man, early modern Italian culture recognized the existence of hermaphrodites and started to experiment with a new kind of sexuality by manufacturing a non-man: the castrato. Following the creation of castrati, the Church forbade the marriage of all non-procreative men, and, in this move, Finucci identifies a powerful legitimation of the view that what makes men is not the possession of male organs or the ability to have sex, but the capability to father. Through analysis, anecdote, and rich cultural description, The Manly Masquerade exposes the "real" early modern man: the paterfamilias.
Author | : Angus Heriot |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1975-04-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul F. Rice |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1527590828 |
Download Observations on the Castrati in Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book highlights the experiences of castrato singers in Britain during the long eighteenth-century. These singers stood apart from traditional cultural and sexual norms of the period by nature of their altered bodies. The work investigates the fears surrounding the possibility of Catholic influence in the nation, and the ability of sensual Italian operatic music to feminize the male population and weaken the country’s leaders. The castrato as a possible romantic rival to “normal” men is also discussed, while the contributions of the castrati to cultural leadership in the areas of teaching, concert direction and social influence are examined. This book will appeal to music historians and those interested in cultural and gender studies.