Kristina AUGUSTIN

Original title: Niños caponados: o início de uma prática vocal de origem ibérica

Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History

Keywords: Capon, Castrati, Castration, Early Music, Vocal practice.

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.