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The castrato : reflections on natures and kinds / / Martha Feldman



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Autore: Feldman Martha Visualizza persona
Titolo: The castrato : reflections on natures and kinds / / Martha Feldman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (496 p.)
Disciplina: 782.8/6
Soggetto topico: Castrati
Soggetto non controllato: 16th century practices
bel canto
bodily mutations
castrated for music
castrated males
castrated singers
castrati and eunuchs
castrati musicians
castrati vocalists
castrati
castration
castrato voices
castrato
catholic blood sacrifice
cavalli
eunuch singers
handel
high male voices
historical body mutations
history of castration
history of music
history of singing
mozart
music history
music
nonsexual castration
pergolesi
pulcinella
rossini
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Textual Transcription, Translations, Lexicon, and Musical Nomenclature -- 1. Of Strange Births and Comic Kin -- 2 The Man Who Pretended to Be Who He Was -- 3. Red Hot Voice -- 4 Castrato De Luxe -- 5. Cold Man, Money Man, Big Man Too -- 6. Shadow Voices, Castrato and Non -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The castrato  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-29244-8
0-520-96203-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787222003321
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