The Castrato : Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Ernest Bloch Lectures
ISBN-10
0520292448
ISBN-13
9780520292444
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 2nd, 2016
Print length
496 Pages
Weight
748 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 22.90 x 3.50 cms
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An 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.
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