Observations On The Castrati In Britain

Author : Paul F. Rice
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527590823

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Observations on the Castrati in Britain by Paul F. Rice Pdf

This book highlights the experiences of castrato singers in Britain during the long eighteenth-century. These singers stood apart from traditional cultural and sexual norms of the period by nature of their altered bodies. The work investigates the fears surrounding the possibility of Catholic influence in the nation, and the ability of sensual Italian operatic music to feminize the male population and weaken the country’s leaders. The castrato as a possible romantic rival to “normal” men is also discussed, while the contributions of the castrati to cultural leadership in the areas of teaching, concert direction and social influence are examined. This book will appeal to music historians and those interested in cultural and gender studies.

Author : Patricia Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199379705

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The Modern Castrato by Patricia Howard Pdf

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. Through a coincidence of time and place, Gaetano Guadagni was on the forefront of the heroic opera reform, and many forward-thinking composers of the age created roles for him. Author Patricia Howard reveals that 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. The first full-length biography of this outstanding singer, The Modern Castrato illuminates the everyday lives of eighteenth-century singers while spotlighting the historic high points of the century. Most famous for his creation of the role of Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, his career ranged widely and brought him into contact with many progressives theorists and composers such as Traetta, Jommelli, and Bertoni. Howard's focus on the development of Guadagni's career pauses on essential, related topics along the way, such as the castrato in society, the eighteenth-century revolution in acting, and the remarkable evidence for Guadagni's marionette theater. Howard also assesses Guadagni's surviving compositions, which give new insight into the quality and character of his voice as well as his technical and expressive abilities. The Modern Castrato is an engaging narrative that will prove essential reading for opera lovers and scholars of eighteenth-century music.

Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520292444

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The Castrato by Martha Feldman Pdf

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 : Michael Burden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1819 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040156117

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London Opera Observed 1711-1844 by Michael Burden Pdf

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines opera not simply as a genre of performance, but as a wider topic of comment and debate. The stories that surrounded the Italian opera singers illuminate contemporary British attitudes towards performance, sexuality and national identity. The collection includes only complete, published material organised chronologically so as to accurately retain the contexts in which the original readers encountered them — placing an emphasis on rare texts that have not been reproduced in modern editions. The aim of this collection is not to provide a history of opera in England but to facilitate the writing of them or to assist those wishing to study topics within the field. Headnotes and footnotes establish the publication information and provide an introduction to the piece, its author, and the events surrounding it or which caused its publication. The notes concentrate on attempting to identify those figures mentioned within the texts. The approach is one of presentation, not interpretation, ensuring that the collection occupies a position that is neutral rather than polemical.

Author : Paul Francis Rice
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465328

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Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain by Paul Francis Rice Pdf

The remarkable career of Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810) sheds new light on changing musical tastes in late eighteenth-century Britain. Rauzzini was a leading soprano castrato who sang in the premiere of Mozart's Lucio Silla in 1772. Mozart was so pleased with the singer that he composed the famous motet Exsultate Jubilate for him. This book examines Rauzzini's career in Britain, starting with his three seasons as a principal singer at the King's Theatre in London (1774-77). Rauzzini was the first castrato to make Britain his home, and he enjoyed a multifaceted career there as a singer, concert director, composer (operas, chamber music, and songs), and voice teacher. Rauzzini's leadership of the Bath subscription concerts from 1780-1810 reveals the degree to which shifts in the social demographics of Bath over this period caused him to reevaluate his compositional choices, especially in light of the patriotic fervor that swept the nation during the protracted war with France. Furthermore, the recovery of much of the repertory performed during these concerts provides specific insights into issues of concert management at the time. Paul F. Rice, Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland, is the author of four previous books and has edited scores for CD recordings on the Naxos, Dorian, and Centaur labels.

Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843614

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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England by Alanna Skuse Pdf

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Natural history
ISBN : BSB:BSB10401446

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The British Encyclopedia by William Nicholson Pdf

Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600046955

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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences by William Nicholson Pdf

Author : Gregor Majdic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030672126

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Soul Mate Biology by Gregor Majdic Pdf

Love, one of the most profound of human emotions, love that accompanies us from puberty to old age, love that follows us from ancient times to modern, from ancient writings, through the Bible and the texts of medieval scribes to modern day books and movies. Through the millennia love has lost none of its secrecy, charm, attractiveness, craziness, even in this digital age, when we are overwhelmed by information. But what is love? Where does this emotion originate? Are we humans the only living beings feeling this emotion? Can love be explained by some chemical reactions in our brains? Is love just a trick of nature or is love some kind of higher feeling? We do not have definite answers to any of these questions, nevertheless, neuroscience, behavioral science and others have provided us with some, at least partial answers. We know today a great deal more than ever before about what is happening in the brain when we are madly in love. We understand why our hearts beat faster when we see the person we love, we know why we sweat and why we feel anxious when the loved one is away from us, and we have some ideas about how feelings of attachment form in the brain. This book guides you through the complicated labyrinth of genes, molecules and brain cells that are involved in the feelings of love, attachment, affection, and also simple sexual reproduction.

Author : Alexandra Shepard,Steve Hindle,John D. Walter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783270170

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Remaking English Society by Alexandra Shepard,Steve Hindle,John D. Walter Pdf

Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113524503

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Journal of the History of Sexuality by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Q. Davies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520958005

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Romantic Anatomies of Performance by James Q. Davies Pdf

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London and Paris, the most dynamic musical centers of nineteenth-century Europe. In their day, performers such as these provoked an avalanche of commentary and analysis, inspiring debates over the nature of mind and body, emotion and materiality, spirituality and mechanism, artistry and skill. J. Q. Davies revisits these debates, examining how key musicians and their contemporaries made sense of extraordinary musical and physical abilities. This is a history told as much from scientific and medical writings as traditionally musicological ones. Davies describes competing notions of vocal and pianistic health, contrasts techniques of training, and explores the ways in which music acts in the cultivation of bodies..

Author : Helen Berry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191620188

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The Castrato and His Wife by Helen Berry Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Music
ISBN : PSU:000065368909

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Musica Aeterna, Program Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Josef Braunstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Music appreciation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042714597

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Musica Æterna, Program Notes for 1961-1967 by Josef Braunstein Pdf