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Author : Nicholas Clapton
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015057511084
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.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110706855
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D035241573
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1774 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035872814
Author : Simon Ravens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843839620
The use of high male voices in the past has long been one of the most seriously misunderstood areas of musical scholarship and practice. In opening up this rich subject (to readers of all sorts) with refreshingly clear perspectives and plenty of new material, Simon Ravens' well-researched book goes a very long way to rectifying matters. Ravens writes damnably well, and if the story that emerges is necessarily a complex one, his treatment of it is always engagingly comprehensible.' ANDREW PARROTT Tracing the origins, influences and development of falsetto singing in Western music, Simon Ravens offers a revisionist history of high male singing from the Ancient Greeks to Michael Jackson. This history embraces not just singers of counter-tenor and alto parts up to and including our own time but the castrati of the Ancient world, the male sopranists of late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the dual-register tenors of the Baroque and Classical periods. Musical aesthetics aside, to understand the changing ways men have sung high, it is also vital to address extra-musical factors - which are themselves in a state of flux. To this end, Ravens illuminates his chronological survey by exploring topics as diverse as human physiology, the stereotyping of national characters, gender identity, and the changing of boys' voices. The result is a complex and fascinating history sure to appeal not only to music scholars but to performers and all those with an interest particularly in early music. Simon Ravens is a performer, writer, and director of Musica Contexta, with whom he has performed in Britain and Europe, regularly broadcast, and made numerous acclaimed recordings. Ravens had previously founded and directed Australasia's foremost early music choir, the Tudor Consort. Between 2002 and 2007 his regular monthly column Ravens View appeared in the Early Music Review, to which he still regularly contributes.
Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03802130O
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Author : Richard Wittman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009414524
Traces the reconstruction of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, providing a new prehistory of the great Catholic revival after 1850.
Author : David Drake
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1904341853
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) dominated the cultural and literary life of post-war France. He believed from an early age that he had a mission to be a writer and proceeded to realize this as a novelist, philosopher, screenwriter, playwright, literary and art critic, biographer, essayist, polemicist and journalist. Although before the Second World War, Sartre showed little inclination to become involved in politics, from 1945 he established himself as the very personification of intellectual commitment, taking public positions on national and international political issues from the Liberation until very shortly before his death. In this new biography, David Drake considers the works of Franceâs most famous twentieth-century intellectual, his relations with his contemporaries, and the political causes he espoused, all of which the author firmly locates in the turbulent times through which Sartre lived.
Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520292444
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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Building trades
ISBN : LOC:00220927581
Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2628 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104234572
Author : Tracy K. Betsinger,Amy B. Scott,Anastasia Tsaliki
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401407
Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire” burials in medieval Poland, and a mass grave of decapitated soldiers in ancient China. Moving away from the simplistic assumption that these burials represent people who were considered deviant in society, contributors demonstrate the importance of an integrated biocultural approach in determining why an individual was buried in an unusual way. Drawing on historical, sociocultural, archaeological, and biological data, this volume critically evaluates the binary of “typical” versus “atypical” burials. It expands our understanding of the continuum of variation within mortuary practices, helping researchers better interpret burial evidence to learn about the people and cultures of the past. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Author : Burton Kreindel,Mitre Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Court administration
ISBN : PURD:32754078876822
Author : Elena Passarello
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781936747450
A rollicking, wide-reaching annotated soundtrack of pop stars, phone psychics, Elvis impersonators, and other marvels of the human voice.
Author : Bruce Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198040946
Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition.