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10 produkter
Castrato Phantoms
Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome
Inbunden, 2026
344 kr
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A new mapping of castrato afterlives in modern Rome Around 1830, opera houses stopped using castrati, and Rome and the Vatican became home to their glorious singing, engineered by surgery and intensive vocal training. Castrati were long mired in secrecy, obfuscations, and lies about their origin …
The Courtesans' Arts: Cross-cultural Perspectives
Av Martha Feldman, Bonnie Gordon
Häftad, 2006
712 kr
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Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. Of a different world than common prostitutes, courtesans deal in artistic and intellectual pleasures in ways that are …
Courtesan's Arts
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av Bonnie Gordon, Martha Feldman
E-bok, 2006
586 kr
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Courtesans, hetaeras , tawaif -s, ji -s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. Of a different world than common prostitutes, courtesans deal in artistic and intellectual pleasures in ways that …
Opera and Sovereignty
Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
E-bok, 2010
916 kr
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Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that …
Voice as Something More
Essays Toward Materiality
Av Martha Feldman, Judith T Zeitlin
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with …
Castrato
Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Inbunden, 2015
538 kr
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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 …
Castrato
Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Häftad, 2016
316 kr
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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 …
City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice
E-bok, 1995
500 kr
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Martha Feldman''s exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies …
Castrato
Reflections on Natures and Kinds
E-bok, 2015
535 kr
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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 …
Voice as Something More
Essays Toward Materiality
Av Martha Feldman, Judith T Zeitlin
Inbunden, 2019
986 kr
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In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with …
