The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Author:   Martha Feldman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   16
ISBN:  

9780520279490


Pages:   496
Publication Date:   20 February 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Martha Feldman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780520279490


ISBN 10:   0520279492
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   20 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Note on Textual Transcription, Translations, Lexicon, and Musical Nomenclature PART ONE. Reproduction 1. Of Strange Births and Comic Kin Appendix to Chapter 1 2. The Man Who Pretended to Be Who He Was PART TWO. Voice 3. Red Hot Voice 4. Castrato De Luxe PART THREE. Half-light 5. Cold Man, Money Man, Big Man Too 6. Shadow Voices, Castrato and Non Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Rich in scholarship and filled with subtle analysis. -- Colm Toibin London Review of Books This is a remarkable book... An impressive achievement. -- Nicholas Clapton Early Music


Rich in scholarship and filled with subtle analysis. -- Colm Toibin London Review of Books


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Martha Feldman is Mabel Green Myers Professor of Music, Romance Languages, and Literatures and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. She is the author of City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice and Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy and coeditor of The Courtesan's Arts.

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