In a message dated 10/12/00 4:48:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
<< Women did not sing in public during the time most of
these songs were written if my memory serves me correctly.
>>
Wasn't the Florentine Camerata the dawn of the prima donna -- the early
Baroque? In earlier udor and Jacobean times, the women of the nobility took
part in court masques, which were operatic forerunners, but not the public
theatre alla Willy Shakesphere. Women could not sing in church either.
Latin experts, what is that famous Pauline edict about women keeping silent
in church?
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