Castrated children: the beginning of a vocal practice in Iberian Peninsula
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Kristina Augustin
Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brasil)
This article is intended to address and clarify some issues about the castrati, the chronological question about the beginning of the practice of castration with musical objective in Europe as well as the existing migration particularly between Spain and Italy in the first half of the sixteenth Century.
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Castrati, Capon, Castration, Vocal practice, Early Music
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Augustin, Kristina. “Castrated children: the beginning of a vocal practice in Iberian Peninsula”. Mirabilia: electronic journal of antiquity and middle ages, no. 21, pp. 298-23, https://raco.cat/index.php/Mirabilia/article/view/304056.
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