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Informationen zum Autor Naomi André Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honoured practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, and the heroic, the masculine, and the feminine were profoundly reconfigured. This book traces the development of female characters in these first decades of the century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Hearing Voices 1. Sounding Voices: Modeling Voice and the Period Ear 2. Haunting Legacies: The Castrato in the Nineteenth Century 3. Meyerbeer in Italy: The Crusader, the Castrato, and the Disguised Second Woman Interlude: Queens, Hybridity, and the Diva 4. Taming Women's Voices: From Hero to Pageboy 5. Women's Voices in Motion: Voices behind the Romantic Heroine Coda: Looking Ahead to Risorgimento Heroism Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hearing Voices
1. Sounding Voices: Modeling Voice and the Period Ear
2. Haunting Legacies: The Castrato in the Nineteenth Century
3. Meyerbeer in Italy: The Crusader, the Castrato, and the Disguised Second Woman
Interlude: Queens, Hybridity, and the Diva
4. Taming Women's Voices: From Hero to Pageboy
5. Women's Voices in Motion: Voices behind the Romantic Heroine
Coda: Looking Ahead to Risorgimento Heroism
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Naomi André is Associate Professor in the School of Music at the University of Michigan.
