Castrated children: the beginning of a vocal practice in Iberian Peninsula
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.
Marin Marais (1656-1728) and the didactic function of the Avertissement
Kristina AUGUSTIN
Original title: Marin Marais (1656-1728) e a função didática dos Avertissement
Published in Music in Antiquity, Middle Ages & Renaissance
Keywords: Avertissement, Early Music, Historically Informed Performance, Marin Marais, Viol.
This text concludes a work begun in 2019 that included the production of an article on the life of the gambist Marin Marais, published in this magazine, with the respective review of primary sources. This was followed by the publication of a second article with the translation of the prefaces (Avertissement) of the five books of Marais. This article seeks to analyze the didactic function of the afore mentioned Avertissement and demonstrate in what aspects they contribute to a better understanding and execution of the works of Marin Marais.
