(Free and download) The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (Ernest Bloch Lectures)
• Martha Feldman •
| #299572 in Books | imusti | 2016-08-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.40 x6.00l,.0 | File Name: 0520292448 | 496 pages | University of California Press
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A wide-ranging, nuanced study of a complex phenomenon|By Jehoshephat|An extraordinary and thoroughly engrossing study of the castrato in his heyday from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries, challenging but worth the effort for those -- not just fellow scholars -- interested in music history, theater history, gender and sexuality studies and general European social histor||
"Rich in scholarship and filled with subtle analysis."
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 exp... [PDF.em70] The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (Ernest Bloch Lectures) Rating: 3.85 (518 Votes)
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