The castrato : reflections on natures and kinds / / Martha Feldman |
Autore | Feldman Martha |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
Disciplina | 782.8/6 |
Collana | Ernest Bloch Lectures |
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 |
ISBN |
0-520-29244-8
0-520-96203-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787222003321 |
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The castrato : reflections on natures and kinds / / Martha Feldman |
Autore | Feldman Martha |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
Disciplina | 782.8/6 |
Collana | Ernest Bloch Lectures |
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 |
ISBN |
0-520-29244-8
0-520-96203-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819177503321 |
Feldman Martha
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
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Emblems of eloquence [[electronic resource] ] : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / / Wendy Heller |
Autore | Heller Wendy Beth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (407 p.) |
Disciplina | 782.1/082/094531 |
Soggetto topico |
Opera - Italy - Venice - 17th century
Women in opera |
Soggetto non controllato |
17th century
androgyny antiquity callisto carthage cavalli chastity classical classicism desire dido diodorus siculus drama empress erotic female characters female power female vocality feminism gender studies gender messalina monteverdi music musicology mythological women mythology nonfiction nymph octavia opera women opera ovid pallavicino performing arts purity semiramis sexuality tacitus theater transvestism venetian opera virgil women womens rights ziani |
ISBN |
1-282-35669-0
0-520-91934-3 9786612356698 1-59734-592-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777355003321 |
Heller Wendy Beth
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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