The Castrati In Opera
Author | : Angus Heriot |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1974-09-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Angus Heriot |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1974-09-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Angus Heriot |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1975-04-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick Barbier |
Publisher | : Souvenir Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Castrati |
ISBN | : 9780285634602 |
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 |
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 |
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 | : |
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 | : Patricia Howard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199365202 |
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.
Author | : Naomi Adele André |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780253346445 |
Documents the changes in approaches to gender in opera in the early 19th century.
Author | : Anne Rice |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1995-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345396936 |
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 | : Fred Everett Maus |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2022-01-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0197607527 |
Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section "Kinds of Music" explores queer interactions with specific musics such as EDM, hip hop, and country. "Versions" explores queer meanings that emerge in the creation of a version of a pre-existing text, for instance in musical settings of Biblical texts or practices of karaoke. "Voices and Sounds" turns in various ways to the materiality of music and sound. "Lives" focuses on interactions of people's lives with music and queerness. "Histories" addresses moments in the past, beginning with times when present conceptualizations of sexuality had not yet developed and moving to cases studies of more recent history, including the creation of pop songs in response to HIV/AIDS and the Eurovision song contest. The final section, "Cross-cultural Queerness," asks how to understand gender and sexuality in locations where recent Euro-American concepts may not be appropriate.