MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Farinelli, Girolamo Mei, Castrato
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Let your women keep silent in churches, cant sing only boys, have to sing high, makes boys sing permanently youthful and flexibility. Solution: castration mid 1500s for musical purposes. Can support your families and girls love you, no unwanted babies, people did it when kids so they can have a better life. Farinelli carlo broschi 1705-1782 greatest castrato in history of the opera, sang lullabies to spanish royal family. Alessandor moreschi 1858-1922 last castrato, only one ever recorded, worked most of his life in the sistine chapel, recordings made when he was old. Phillipie javrosskiy- high head voice, not castrated. Preconceptions (dramatic, loud, italian, long, fat, expensive, full orchestra, no amplification, vibrato and ample) Count gio de bardi 1534-1612- they met at his house. Gulio caccini 1551-1618- wrote music for the first opera. Jacopo peri 1561-1618- wrote most of first opera, first surviving opera was eurdice in 1600 to honor marriage of henry iv of france to maria de medicci.
