Voicing Gender Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Name: Voicing Gender Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
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ISBN: 9780253217899

ISBN-10: 025321789X

ISBN-13: 9780253217899

Edition: 2006

Authors: Naomi Andrï¿½, Naomi Andrï¿½, Naomi André

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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880

Naomi Andrï¿½ is Associate Professor in the School of Music at the University of Michigan.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prelude: Hearing Voices



Sounding Voices: Modeling Voice and the Period Ear



Haunting Legacies: The Castrato in the Nineteenth Century



Meyerbeer in Italy: The Crusader, the Castrato, and the Disguised Second Woman


Interlude: Queens, Hybridity, and the Diva



Taming Women's Voices: From Hero to Pageboy



Women's Voices in Motion: Voices behind the Romantic Heroine


Coda: Looking Ahead to Risorgimento Heroism


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index