J.Q. Davies is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Davies narrating incidents and tracing connections is full of animation and amusement ... a master of the anecdote and incident." -- Stephen Brown Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations and Musical Examples Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Veluti in Speculum": The Twilight of the Castrato 2. Reflecting on Reflex: A Touching New Fact about Chopin 3. The Sontag-Malibran Stereotype 4. Boneless Hands{ths}/{ths}Thalberg's Ready-Made Soul{ths}/{ths}Velvet Fingers 5. In Search of Voice: Nourrit's Voix Mixte, Donzelli's Bari-Tenor 6. Franz Liszt, Metapianism, and the Cultural History of the Hand Epilogue Notes Index

J.Q. Davies is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Davies narrating incidents and tracing connections is full of animation and amusement ... a master of the anecdote and incident." -- Stephen Brown Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations and Musical Examples Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Veluti in Speculum": The Twilight of the Castrato 2. Reflecting on Reflex: A Touching New Fact about Chopin 3. The Sontag-Malibran Stereotype 4. Boneless Hands{ths}/{ths}Thalberg's Ready-Made Soul{ths}/{ths}Velvet Fingers 5. In Search of Voice: Nourrit's Voix Mixte, Donzelli's Bari-Tenor 6. Franz Liszt, Metapianism, and the Cultural History of the Hand Epilogue Notes Index

J.Q. Davies is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Davies narrating incidents and tracing connections is full of animation and amusement ... a master of the anecdote and incident." -- Stephen Brown Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations and Musical Examples Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Veluti in Speculum": The Twilight of the Castrato 2. Reflecting on Reflex: A Touching New Fact about Chopin 3. The Sontag-Malibran Stereotype 4. Boneless Hands{ths}/{ths}Thalberg's Ready-Made Soul{ths}/{ths}Velvet Fingers 5. In Search of Voice: Nourrit's Voix Mixte, Donzelli's Bari-Tenor 6. Franz Liszt, Metapianism, and the Cultural History of the Hand Epilogue Notes Index