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An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. This book shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political.

The Castrato Reflections on Natures and Kinds

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An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. This book shows that... Read more

    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 3/24/2015 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780520279490, 978-0520279490
    ISBN10: 0520279492

    Number of Pages: 496

    Non Fiction , Entertainment

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    An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. This book shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political.

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