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Title: The Evolution of the Nineteenth Century Italian Operatic Tenor
Author: Sen, Suranjan Matthew
Description: A paper for Music Literature and History 244: Music of the Romantic and Modern Eras, Spring 2008. Sen explains how the sound of the tenor we know today is the result of gradual change in opera composition--the tenor came to replace the castrato only after vocalists collaborated with composers.
Subject: Undergraduate Writing Symposium
Music of the Romantic and Modern Eras
LCSH Subject: Opera -- Italy -- 19th century
Tenors (Singers) -- Italy -- History
Music -- Performance -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901
Rubini, Gio. Battista (Giovanni Battista), 1794-1854
Duprez, Gilbert Louis, 1806-1896
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3084
Date: 2009-03-22

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