Voicing Gender
Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honored practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, the rise of the tenor overtook the falling stars of the castrati, and the heroic, the masculine, and the feminine were profoundly reconfigured. These transformations resounded in operatic plot structures as well; the happy resolution of the 18th century twisted into a tragic 19th-century finale with the death of the helpless and innocent heroine—and frequently her tenor hero along with her. Female voices which formerly had sung en travesti, or basically in male drag, opposite their female character counterparts then took on roles of the second woman, a companion and foil to the death-bound heroine rather than her romantic partner. In Voicing Gender, Naomi André skillfully traces the development of female characters in these first decades of the century, weaving in and around these changes in voicings and plot lines, to define an emergent legacy in operatic roles.
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- Utgivningsdatum2006-02-13
- Mått155 x 235 x 13 mm
- Vikt354 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieMusical Meaning and Interpretation
- Antal sidor248
- FörlagIndiana University Press
- ISBN9780253217899
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Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo
Thomas Pooley, Naomi André, Innocentia Mhlambi, Donato Somma, South Africa) Pooley, Dr. Thomas (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Music, University of South Africa, USA) Andre, Dr. Naomi (David G. Frey Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, South Africa) Mhlambi, Dr. Innocentia (Associate Professor of African Languages, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Somma, Dr. Donato (Senior Lecturer in Music, University of the Witwatersrand
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