The Castrato
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The Castrato
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Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-08-02
The Castrato written by Martha Feldman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Music categories.
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
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Author : Lawrence Louis Goldman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Castrato written by Lawrence Louis Goldman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
Historische roman over het leven van de beroemde zanger Carlo Broschi detto Farinellei (1705-1782), die, begonnen als eenvoudige Italiaanse boer, het bracht tot een van de meest gevierde mannen van zijn tijd.
Moreschi And The Voice Of The Castrato
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Author : Nicholas Clapton
language : en
Publisher: Haus Pub.
Release Date : 2008
Moreschi And The Voice Of The Castrato written by Nicholas Clapton and has been published by Haus Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Castrati categories.
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.
The Castrato
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Author : Lawrence Goldman
language : en
Publisher: John Day Company, Incorporated
Release Date : 1973
The Castrato written by Lawrence Goldman and has been published by John Day Company, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Fiction categories.
The World Of The Castrati
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Author : Patrick Barbier
language : en
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Release Date : 1996
The World Of The Castrati written by Patrick Barbier and has been published by Souvenir Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Medical categories.
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.
The Castrato And His Wife
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Author : Helen Berry
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-09-22
The Castrato And His Wife written by Helen Berry and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-22 with Music categories.
The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a castrato. Women flocked to his concerts and found him irresistible. His singing pupil, Dorothea Maunsell, a teenage girl from a genteel Irish family, eloped with him. There was a huge scandal; her father persecuted them mercilessly. Tenducci's wife joined him at his concerts, achieving a status as a performer she could never have dreamed of as a respectable girl. She also wrote a sensational account of their love affair, an early example of a teenage novel. Embroiled in debt, the Tenduccis fled to Italy, and the marriage collapsed when she fell in love with another man. There followed a highly publicized and unique marriage annulment case in the London courts. Everything hinged on the status of the marriage; whether the husband was capable of consummation, and what exactly had happened to him as a small boy in a remote Italian hill village decades before. Ranging from the salons of princes and the grand opera houses of Europe to the remote hill towns of Tuscany, the unconventional love story of the castrato and his wife affords a fascinating insight into the world of opera and the history of sex and marriage in Georgian Britain, while also exploring questions about the meaning of marriage that continue to resonate in our own time.
The Castrato
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Author : Joyce Pool
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11
The Castrato written by Joyce Pool and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11 with JUVENILE FICTION categories.
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.
Moreschi
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Author : Nicholas Clapton
language : en
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Moreschi written by Nicholas Clapton and has been published by Haus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Castrati In Opera
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Author : Angus Heriot
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1975-04-21
The Castrati In Opera written by Angus Heriot and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-04-21 with Castrati categories.
Susanna The Captain The Castrato
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Author : Linda Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Starhaven
Release Date : 2004
Susanna The Captain The Castrato written by Linda Kelly and has been published by Starhaven this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Susanna Burney was by all accounts the sweetest and most 'spirituelle' member of the famous family which enlivened English cultural life in the later 18th century. Though less well-known than her sister, the novelist Fanny Burney, Susanna was the principal attraction of her father's musical salon for the last of the great castrati, Gasparo Pacchierotti, during his triumphant season in London in 1779-80. An unspoken romance between the singer and Susanna dominates her letter-journals to her sister, written during a year which also saw a near invasion of England, the Gordon Riots and the death of Captain Cook on the far side of the world, an event at which both Susanna's brother and her future husband were present. Drawing on these still-unpublished journals, historian Linda Kelly tells a tale of the Pacchierotti affair, the eventful year and the sadly brief life of her charming young heroine with an immediacy that makes it feel almost contemporary.