Portrait Of A Castrato
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Portrait of a Castrato
Author | : Roger Freitas |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : 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.
The Castrato
Author | : Martha Feldman |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2016-08-02 |
Genre | : 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.
Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance
Author | : Touba Ghadessi |
Publsiher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781580442763 |
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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.
The Castrato and His Wife
Author | : Helen Berry |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2011-09-22 |
Genre | : 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 Modern Castrato
Author | : Patricia Howard |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : 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
Author | : Alanna Skuse |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108843614 |
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Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
Observations on the Castrati in Britain
Author | : Paul F. Rice |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781527590823 |
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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
Author | : Katherine Crawford |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : 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.