Author: Lucienne Bréval
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Languages : fr
Pages : 4
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Lettre autographe signée de Lucienne Bréval, 7 mars 1907
Author: Lucienne Bréval
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Lettre autographe signée de Lucienne Bréval à Pedro Gailhard, directeur de l'Opéra, 17 mars 1907
Author: Lucienne Bréval
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Pages : 4
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Lettre autographe signée de Lucienne Bréval à Pedro Gailhard, directeur de l'Opéra, 26 décembre 1907
Author: Lucienne Bréval
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Pages : 8
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Lettre autographe signée de Lucienne Bréval à Pedro Gailhard, directeur de l'Opéra, 3 avril 1907
Author: Lucienne Bréval
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Pages : 4
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Lettre autographe signée de Gabriel Dupont à Lucienne Bréval, Le Vésinet, 20 juin 1907
Author: Gabriel Dupont
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Pages : 4
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Lettre autographe signée de Lucienne Bréval à Dauchez, 14 octobre 1915
Author: Lucienne Bréval
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Pages : 2
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Lettre autographe signée d'Eugène Carrière à Lucienne Bréval, Mons, 11 décembre 1904
Author: Eugène Carrière
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Pages : 4
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Lettre autographe signée de Gabriel Dupont à Lucienne Bréval, Paris (sans date)
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Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist
Author: Carlton Lake
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211307
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211307
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers.
The Castrato
Author: Martha Feldman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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 castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were 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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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 castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were 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.