Description
| Product ID: | 9780520292444 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Ernest Bloch Lectures |
| Title: | The Castrato |
| Subtitle: | Reflections on Natures and Kinds |
| Authors: | Author: Martha Feldman |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music, European history, History, History, European history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Western Continental Europe, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-08-02 |