On Jul 23, 2005, at 2:37 PM, John Howell wrote:
If Mark is correct, then Andrew's equating youthfulness with vocal
range makes sense, even though WE would think of a treble (or mezzo)
voice as representing an unchanged boy's voice. It is not, then, a
literal statement that the character has or has not gone through
puberty
Certainly not.
Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier opens with the Marschallin in bed with
Octavian, and the music of the prelude makes it pretty clear what they
were doing there before the curtain is raised. If Octavian has not
been through puberty, that's a sick libretto.
mdl
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