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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.
Castrati. --- Evirati --- Music. --- Singing --- Singing. --- History. --- Eunuchs --- Singers --- 16th century practices. --- bel canto. --- bodily mutations. --- castrated for music. --- castrated males. --- castrated singers. --- castrati and eunuchs. --- castrati musicians. --- castrati vocalists. --- castrati. --- castration. --- castrato voices. --- castrato. --- catholic blood sacrifice. --- cavalli. --- eunuch singers. --- handel. --- high male voices. --- historical body mutations. --- history of castration. --- history of music. --- history of singing. --- mozart. --- music history. --- music. --- nonsexual castration. --- pergolesi. --- pulcinella. --- rossini.
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Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), the celebrated Italian castrato, is best known for his performance in Mozart's Lucio Silla in 1772, with which Mozart was so pleased that he composed for the singer the famous motet Exsultate Jubilate. In 1774, Rauzzini moved to London where he performed three seasons of serious operas at the King's Theatre. From 1777 until his death in 1810, he was the director of the concert series in Bath, a series that matched the prestige of any that were given in London. In addition, he composed prolifically, writing music for eleven operas. This book is a study of Rauzzini's remarkable yet often overlooked career in Britain. Paul Rice chronicles Rauzzini's performances at the King's Theatre and examines his leadership of the Bath subscription concerts from 1780-1810, recovering much of the repertory. Rice shows in detail how Rauzzini responded musically to the social and political conditions of his adopted country, and analyzes the castrato's reception, as well as compositional choices, shedding new light on changing musical tastes in late eighteenth-century Britain. Paul F. Rice is professor of musicology at the School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Castrati --- Music --- Castrats --- Musique --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Biographies --- Histoire et critique --- Rauzzini, Venanzio, --- Great Britain --- 18th century --- History and criticism --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Evirati --- Eunuchs --- Singers --- Rauzzini, V. --- Bath subscription concerts. --- Britain. --- King's Theatre. --- Memorial University of Newfoundland. --- Mozart. --- Paul F. Rice. --- Venanzio Rauzzini. --- castrato soprano. --- composer. --- cultural leader. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- music. --- social and political conditions.
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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.
Music --- Performance --- History. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- castrato. --- celebrity pianists. --- franz liszt. --- frederic francois chopin. --- giovanni battista rubini. --- giovanni battista velluti. --- historical. --- history of music. --- history. --- live entertainment. --- maria felicia malibran. --- medical approach to music. --- music and physical impacts. --- music. --- musical expression. --- musical performers. --- musicians. --- musicological. --- opera. --- pianistic health. --- pianists. --- piano. --- scientific approach to music. --- sigismond thalberg. --- singers. --- techniques of musical training. --- virtuosic musicians. --- vocal health.
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A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
English drama --- English drama (Tragedy) --- Revenge in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- History --- English literature --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- DRAMA --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Stage --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Philosophy --- Academic drama. --- Admonition. --- Aeschylus. --- Amleth. --- Antonio's Revenge. --- Apotheosis. --- Assassination. --- Battle of Wakefield. --- Beaumont and Fletcher. --- Bel-imperia. --- Blood and Thunder (book). --- Bogeyman. --- Bravi. --- Britannicus. --- Bussy D'Ambois. --- Castrato. --- Catiline. --- Cowardice. --- Cruelty. --- Crushing (execution). --- Cupid's Revenge. --- Cyril Tourneur. --- Deus ex machina. --- Doctor Faustus (play). --- Domestic tragedy. --- Drama. --- Edmund (King Lear). --- Elizabethan era. --- Elizabethan literature. --- Eunuchus. --- Extortion. --- Foe (novel). --- Fratricide. --- From Hell. --- G. (novel). --- Gorboduc. --- Hamlet's Father. --- Hieronimo. --- Inception. --- Injunction. --- Invective. --- Lactantius. --- Laertes. --- Locrine. --- Love's Cruelty. --- Love's Sacrifice. --- Lust's Dominion. --- Malcontent. --- Melodrama. --- Misanthropy. --- Misery (novel). --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Murder. --- Orbecche. --- Parricide. --- Philaster (play). --- Polonius. --- Polyxena. --- Regicide. --- Revenge for Honour. --- Revenge play. --- Revenge tragedy. --- Roderigo. --- Samuel Rowlands. --- Satire. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-immolation. --- Shakespeare's influence. --- Sophocles. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Atheist's Tragedy. --- The Bloody Banquet. --- The Duke of Milan. --- The Fatal Contract. --- The Fatal Dowry. --- The Goths. --- The Jew of Malta. --- The Malcontent. --- The Offence. --- The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. --- The Revenger's Tragedy. --- The Spanish Tragedy. --- The Tudors. --- The Unnatural Combat. --- The Wars of the Roses (adaptation). --- Theft. --- Thierry and Theodoret. --- Thomas Kyd. --- Thomas Nashe. --- Thyestes. --- Timoclea. --- Titus Andronicus. --- Tragedy. --- Tragic hero. --- Treachery (law). --- Tyrannicide. --- Undoing (psychology). --- Ur-Hamlet. --- Valentinian (play). --- William Shakespeare. --- Tragédie anglaise --- 16e siècle --- Histoire et critique
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