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The modern castrato : Gaetano Guadagni and the coming of a new operatic age
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The modern castrato : Gaetano Guadagni and the coming of a new operatic age / Patricia Howard.
ISBN
9780199374687 (ebook) :
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), music
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2014).
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Summary
This is the first full-length biography of one of the most outstanding singers of the eighteenth century. Gaetano Guadagni is widely known for his creation of the role of Orpheus in Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'; he was also a leading singer in Handel's oratorios, and worked with other progressive composers such as Traetta, Jommelli and Bertoni. His career coincided with a movement to reform heroic opera, with the intention of freeing dramatic music from restrictive conventions, and bringing it into harmony with the more expressive aims of the age of sensibility.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 01, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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