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Fa Le Lin Cha Guan
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The Castrato
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 castratoÕs comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchyÑinvolving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relativesÑwhereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composersÑfrom Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and RossiniÑwere 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.
Cong Ming Quan
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The Italian Madrigal
Volume 2 of 3. This monumental three-volume work on the Italian madrigal from its beginnings about 1500 to its decline in the 17th century is based on the research of 40 years, and is a cultural history of the development of Italian music. Mr. Einstein, renowned musicologist, supplies a background and a sense of proportion to the field: he gives the right order to the single composers in the evolution fo the madrigal, attaches new values to old names, and places in the foreground the outstanding, but until now rather neglected, personality of Cipriano de Rore. His work is not, however, purely musicological; his object is to inquire into the functions of secular music in Italian life during t...
Der Leguan
Ich war sechs Jahre alt, da haben sie mich zu viert festgehalten und mich gezwungen, mich lange im Spiegel anzuschauen. Wenn es seither einen Tag gab, an dem ich mich nicht daran erinnerte, wart ihr da, um mir die Erinnerung aufzufrischen. Weißt du, in wie vielen Sprachen ich das Wort Monster kenne? In achtzehn, und dazu gehören Chinesisch, Malaiisch und Quechua. Wie soll ich an einen Gott glauben, der mich mit diesem Gesicht in die Welt schicken konnte?
Bulletin de la Société de géographie commerciale de Paris
Vol. 27- includes lists of members.
