Kristina AUGUSTIN

Castrated children: the beginning of a vocal practice in Iberian Peninsula

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

Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History

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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.