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The Modern Castrato

Patricia Howard
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Author : Patricia Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199365203

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This is the first full-length biography of one of the most outstanding singers of the eighteenth century. Gaetano Guadagni is widely known for his creation of the role of Orpheus in Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'; he was also a leading singer in Handel's oratorios, and worked with other progressive composers such as Traetta, Jommelli and Bertoni. His career coincided with a movement to reform heroic opera, with the intention of freeing dramatic music from restrictive conventions, and bringing it into harmony with the more expressive aims of the age of sensibility.

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

Alanna Skuse
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Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 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.

The Castrato and His Wife

Helen Berry
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Author : Helen Berry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191620188

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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

Martha Feldman
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Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520292444

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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.

Portrait of a Castrato

Roger Freitas
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Author : Roger Freitas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521885218

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A fascinating insight into the life and music-making of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century, castrato Atto Melani.

Moreschi and the Voice of the Castrato

Nicholas Clapton
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Author : Nicholas Clapton
Publisher : Haus Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Castrati
ISBN : 1905791429

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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.

Observations on the Castrati in Britain

Paul F. Rice
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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.

Eunuchs and Castrati

Katherine Crawford
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Author : Katherine Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351166355

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Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book asks what influence such fascination had on the development and delineation of modern ideas around sexuality and physical impairment. Ranging from Greco-Roman times to the twenty-first century, Katherine Crawford brings together travel accounts, diplomatic records, and fictional sources, as well as existing scholarship, to demonstrate how early modern interlocutors reacted to and depicted castrates. She reveals how medicine and law operated to maintain the privileges of bodily integrity and created and extended prejudice against those without it. In consequence, castrates were constructed as gender deviant, disabled social subjects and demarcated as inferior. Early modern cultural loci then reinforced these perceptions, encouraging an othering of castrates in public contexts. These extensive, almost obsessive accounts of appearance, social propensities, and gender characteristics of castrated men reveal the historical lineages of sexual stigma and hostility towards gender non-normative and physically impaired persons. For Crawford, they are the roots of sexual and physical prejudices that remain embedded in the western experience today.

Cry to Heaven

Anne Rice
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Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345396938

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In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe. These men are revered as idols—and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not. Praise for Anne Rice and Cry to Heaven “Daring and imaginative . . . [Anne] Rice seems like nothing less than a magician: It is a pure and uncanny talent that can give a voice to monsters and angels both.”—The New York Times Book Review “To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinnning through the mind of time.”—San Francisco Chronicle “If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”—The Boston Globe “Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident.”—Time

Moreschi

Nicholas Clapton
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Author : Nicholas Clapton
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015057511084

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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.

Voice Machines

Bonnie Gordon
Voice Machines Book PDF

Author : Bonnie Gordon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226825144

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Voice Machines by Bonnie Gordon Pdf

"The castrato phenomenon stretched from the late sixteenth century, when castrati first appeared in Italian courts and churches, through the eighteenth century, when they occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Throughout this time, the voice of the castrato--hailed as uniquely strong, flexible and expressive--contributed to a dramatic expansion of the musical vocabulary and to finding new ways to embody the poetic text. For us today, the castrato also highlights the porous relationship of voices and instruments/machines and the inherent materiality of sound. In her revealing study, Bonnie Gordon asks what it meant that the early-modern period produced a caste of technologically altered male singers and she uses the castrato as a critical provocation for asking questions about the interrelated histories of music, technology, sound, the limits of the human body, and what counts as human"--

Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance

Touba Ghadessi
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Author : Touba Ghadessi
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580442763

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Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance by Touba Ghadessi Pdf

At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The study traces how these monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. The works examined here point to the intricate cultural, religious, ethical, and scientific perceptions of monstrous individuals who were fixtures in contemporary courts.

Caravaggio

John Varriano
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Author : John Varriano
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271047038

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In Caravaggio, Varriano uncovers the principles and practices that guided Caravaggio's brush as he made some of the most controversial paintings in the history of art. He sheds an important new light on these disputes by tracing the autobiographical threads in Caravaggio's paintings, framing these within the context of contemporary Italian culture.

Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing

Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland
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Author : Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000536843

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Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing by Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland Pdf

Since the eighteenth century, the one-to-one singing lesson has been the most common method of delivery. The scenario allows the teacher to familiarise and individualise the lesson to suit the needs of their student; however, it can also lead to speculation about what is taught. More troubling is the heightened risk of gossip and rumour with the private space generating speculation about the student–teacher relationship. Venanzio Rauzzini (1746–1810), an Italian castrato living in England who became a highly sought-after singing master, was particularly susceptible since his students tended to be women, whose moral character was under more scrutiny than their male counterparts. Even so in 1792, The Bath Chronicle proclaimed the Italian castrato: 'the father of a new style in English singing'. Branding Rauzzini as a founder of an English style was not an error, but indicative of deep-seated anxieties about the Italian invasion on England’s musical culture. This book places teaching at the centre of the socio-historical narrative and provides unique insight into musical culture. Using a microhistory approach, this study is the first to focus in on the impact of teaching and casts new light on issues of celebrity culture, gender and nationalism in Georgian England.

The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati

Louise K. Stein
The Marqu s the Divas and the Castrati Book PDF

Author : Louise K. Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780197681848

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The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati by Louise K. Stein Pdf

In this book, author Louise K. Stein analyzes early modern opera as appreciated and produced by Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (1629-87), Marqués de Heliche and del Carpio and a distinguished patron of the arts in Madrid, Rome, and Naples. It also reveals his lasting legacy in the Americas during a crucial period for the growth and development of opera and the history of singing.