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Were boys in the baroque era choirs castrated to preserve their voices?
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What were some of the songs from the colonial New York era?
There really wasn't much music in Colonial America. Struggling to stay alive, they had little time for entertainment. However, this would have been the baroque era of music in European art styles. Baroque music was very ornamented and sounded very grand. Since it mainly employed an orchestra or a choir of trained voices, it simply wasn't found in the New World.
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Are the Vienna boys choir castrated?
"The Roman Catholic Church was known to have castrated their choir boys to preserve the prepubescent voices but that action died out in the 1800's i would think the same could be said about the Vienna boys choir. " The church never castrated anyone, it was an offense punishable by excommunication and performed by people who kept quiet about it. The church was happy to employ castrati in its choirs and the last one retired as head of the Cistine Chapel choir in about 1913. The unified Italian state made it illegal in 1870 and pope Leo xiii formally banned it eight years later. Sadly this wouldn't seem to have been an end to a long tradition of harm to boys. The high voices of the Vienna Boys Choir are perfectly natural, the clue is in the title; boys.
What is castrato?
Boys who were castrated at puberty so that their voices would remain in a high singing register
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Can you give Example of male with soprano voice?
Males do not have soprano voices unless they have no testosterone. This means that only young boys can sing soprano. At one time, boys with particularly talented voices would be castrated so that they could continue to sing soprano. These were known as castradi.
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What were boys taught to do until their voice changed?
At one time boys with "good" voices sang treble parts in choirs until their voices changed and got lower in pitch, (some boys still sing treble in choirs etc). In Elizabethan England the parts of women in plays were acted by boys, as it wasn't thought seemly for woman to appear on stage. So, in the original production of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Julliette," Juliette was actually played by a "beardless boy," a boy who hadn't gone through puberty. If you are asking something else could you rephrase the question so that it is more obvious exactly what it is that wish to know?
