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Emblems of eloquence [electronic resource] : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xix, 386 p. cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 782.1/082/094531 21
LOC classification:
  • ML2100 .H45 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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