Date sent: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:53:36 EST
Subject: Re: Castrati
To: vocalist
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The name of the novel by Anne Rice is "Cry to Heaven" --

but if its NON fiction you want about the castrati, you can look into the
following sources. Some of the the sources have been translated and are
available in English, such as the Barbier book. Get a hold of that book, =
and
you've got a long list of sources in its bibliography.

Ancillon, Charles D=92: Trait=E9 des eunuques, Berlin, 1707

Barbier, Patrick: Histoire des castrats, Paris, Grasset, 1989, ISBN
2-246-40681

Bowman, Horace Bushnell: The Castrati singers and their music, Thesis,
Bloomington, Indiana University, 1951, IX


Jane Kline
Interim Coordinator of Vocal Studies
NC Central University