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Animal Farm animated

12/4/2025

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10/11/2025
A bevy of brutes run the Church farm.

Google AI Overview

The word "brute" derives from Latin brūtus (heavy, dull, stupid), borrowed into French and Middle English from an Italic source (likely Oscan), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) gʷréh₂us (heavy), connecting it to words like Greek barús and Sanskrit guru (English "guru"). It entered English meaning "animal-like", evolving to describe physical force or unintelligent, cruel behavior. Et tu, Brute says the recusant.
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Etymological Breakdown:
  1. Proto-Indo-European: The root is *gʷréh₂us, meaning "heavy".
  2. Italic: This root developed into the Latin brūtus, meaning "heavy, dull, stupid, insensible". It was likely borrowed from Oscan, another Italic language.
  3. French: The word passed into Old/Middle French as brut, retaining meanings like "coarse, raw, crude".
  4. English: Entered English in the 15th century from French, initially meaning "non-human" or "animal-like".
  5. Semantic Shift: Over time, its meaning expanded in English to include
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a. 1530s unintelligent, lacking reason
b. 1736 purely material, unreasonable 
(e.g., brute force)
c. modern usage rough, strong like an animal, savage, cruel

In essence: The word's journey traces from a concept of physical heaviness to a lack of mental weight or reason, ultimately describing actions or beings devoid of intellect or refinement.
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Planet 9 or black hole

11/29/2025

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Our solar system is made up of a star—the Sun—eight planets, 146 moons, a bunch of comets, asteroids and space rocks, ice, and several dwarf planets, such as Pluto. The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest.
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11/27/2025
The noun "perturbation" derives from the Latin perturbatio, meaning "confusion" or "disorder". It comes from the verb perturbare, which combines per ("through") and turbare ("to disturb"). The turbare root is linked to the noun turba, meaning "turmoil" or "crowd". I'm perturbed.
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St Kilda Scotland

11/20/2025

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Kilda_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg
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"This is an attempt to capture the scene c. 1920, when Captain John McCallum's steamship, 'Hebrides' (1898-1955), made one of her summer-season calls at St Kilda." -Artist Donald E. Meek, 2012, maritime art
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Catholic hospitals

11/13/2025

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California
​There are no more Catholic hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Giuseppe Verdi composed Dies Irae in 1874 as part of Messa da Requiem (Requiem Mass).
Title: Pandemonium
Artist: John Martin 1789 - 1854
Genre: religious art
Date: 1841
​Style: Romanticism
Dimensions: height 48.4 in; width 72.8 in
Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris
Current location: Denon, 1st floor, room 32
Accession number: RF 2006-21

Provenance: purchased by the Louvre in 2006

The word pandemonium comes from the Greek prefix pan-, meaning "all", and the Late Latin word daemonium, meaning "evil spirit". Coined by John Milton in his poem "Paradise Lost", the word was initially the name for the capital of Hell and a place of "all demons". The word's meaning evolved to refer to a place or state of utter confusion and uproar.

In the 1820s Martin produced a series of paintings depicting scenes of disaster, set in infinite, visionary spaces, and full of theatrical, nightmarish lighting effects, the basic mood largely derived from the artist's familiarity with John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" and with the biblical Apocalypse.

The painting of 1841 goes back to a passage in the first book of Milton's poem, in which Pandemonium, the palace of Satan, rises suddenly built out of the deep. In a diagonal perspective, a gigantic building complex extends along the waterfront. This recalls fantastic reconstructions of cities of antiquity. Martin's Satan, whose invocatory figure stands on a rocky outcrop in the right foreground, has the look of an ancient Greek hero. Like Achilles outside Troy, he appears with shield and feathered helmet, but commanding an army not of besiegers but of demons and damned souls in their Cyclopean city. (description by Web Gallery of Art)

The artist died on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
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Freedom from Want

11/1/2025

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Hennepin County Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist: American Norman Rockwell 1894-1978
​Style: (painting) photorealism
Title: 
Freedom from Want
Date: 1943
Picture
c. 1921
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Intelligent Design

10/31/2025

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10/30/2025
debunking the Theory of Evolution
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Planet with oceans

10/29/2025

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10/29/2025 time travel ​produced by goroAI (go row)
GJ 9827 d
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https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/chapter1-3/
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Dylan Borland

​I feel that it might be necessary to explain this video. It is projection to a future Earth, which is hopeful, not doomsday as so many Catholic nitwits predict, and projection to the prehistoric past. The spaceship never leaves Earth, and that's what time travel is.
Would this projection require the assistance of UAP?
You answer the question.

Go to the Piano Category.
Listen to Chopin's Ocean.
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Dresden by Night

10/25/2025

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Collection: Galerie Neue Meister Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Dimensions: height 30.7 in; width 51.1 in

Artist: Johan Christian Dahl 1788–1857
Title: View of Dresden by Moonlight
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Genre: landscape painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1839
The typical materials for canvas are cotton and WHITE LINEN.
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Blood Son

10/24/2025

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by Richard Matheson, science fiction/fantasy writer, 1926-2013




​I classified this short story as horror/supernatural.
​Jules is not abnormal.
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Fontgombault 2021

10/22/2025

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Released 1/1/2021 France
Latin Alleluia, Alleluia, De quacumque tribulatione clamaverint, ad me exaudiam eos, et ero prætector eorum semper.
English Alleluia, Alleluia, In whatever tribulation they shall cry to me, and I will hear them, and be their protector always.
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9/22/2012
photo, Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault
ordination 
of M. l'abbé Grégoire Villeminoz, FSSP

https://www.fssp.fr/nous-decouvrir/liste-des-pretres/​
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Stirling Castle

10/22/2025

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Home of Mary, Catholic Queen of Scots, 1542-1587, murdered at 44 by beheading with an axe on February 8, 1587, at Fotheringhay Castle, England
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https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/stirling-castle/
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Title: Mary, Queen of Scots
Description: Portrait of Mary at about 17 years old
Artist: François Clouet 1510-1572
Family: son of Jean Clouet
Date: 1558 - 1560
Genre: portrait, miniature
Medium: watercolour and bodycolour on vellum rebacked with card
Object history: first recorded in the collection of Charles I 
Dimensions: height 3.2 in; width 2.2 in
Collection: Royal Collection 
Style: French Renaissance
Why is she not a declared saint? I am so sick of a church that sanctifies popes of very recent times who die in their beds and glorifies rich donors who give to that corrupt institution. Clusters of three, little white pearls. Get it?
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HMS Hind 1794

10/18/2025

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Description: cropped image of Coventry-class frigate HMS Carysfort, from the work "Capture of the Castor, May 29th, 1794", from a print depicting the recapturing of HMS Castor by HMS Carysfort on May 29, 1794. HMS Castor had been captured by a French squadron and sailed to France when she was discovered and retaken by the Carysfort.
Curator: Collections of the National Maritime Musuem
Artist: Thomas Whitcombe (1763–1824)
Date of painting: June 1, 1816
Genre: marine art

Rotten wood found on a beach turns out to be part of a 250-year-old sunken warship By Jordan Joseph September 28, 2025 Earth.com

"A winter storm scoured the dunes on Sanday, one of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, in February 2024. A schoolboy spotted curved ribs of timber protruding from the sand and set off a chain of calls, photos, and local buzz.

"What followed were months of careful science and community sleuthing that pointed to a likely match, the Earl of Chatham, a former Royal Navy frigate once known as HMS Hind.

Locals hauled about 12 tons of oak timbers from the beach. Roughly 270 wrecks have been recorded around the island..."


www.earth.com/news/pieces-of-wood-on-sanday-scotland-beach-turned-was-250-year-old-warship-hms-hind/
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Historic Ordnance Survey Map of Sanday, 1912
https://www.francisfrith.com/sanday/map-of-sanday-1912_rnc824909
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art vandalized

10/16/2025

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Madrid, Spain
10/12/2025
Environmental activists from the group Futuro Vegetal threw red “biodegradable paint” on an 1892 painting of Christopher Columbus at Madrid’s Naval Museum. The group said that the act symbolized opposition to “centuries of oppression and genocide” tied to colonialism. Museum officials said that the artwork, Primero Tributo a Cristóbal Colón, by José Garnelo, was being restored. The two women involved were arrested and charged with a crime against heritage, according to El País. -New York Post

Who is that man in a blue shirt, a collaborator?

​Christopher Columbus
First Voyage 1492-1493
Second Voyage 1493-1496
Third Voyage 1498-1500
Fourth Voyage 1502-1504

First Voyage of a courageous man
  • Outbound trip: He set sail from Spain on August 3, 1492, and made landfall in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, a journey of roughly two months, nine days.
  • Return trip: He began his return voyage on January 16, 1493, and arrived back in Spain on March 4, 1493.
This is an attack on Catholic art and the lame work of the devil.
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The thurible is real.
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Columbus had a brother named Bartholomew who was sent to various courts in Europe to act as an ambassador for the planned voyage. Bartholomew was a skilled cartographer and sailor who played a key role in Christopher's expeditions. After his ambassadorship, Bartholomew continued to play a major role in his brother's career.

He later joined Christopher in the Americas, where he was appointed governor (adelantado) of the colony on Hispaniola. Between 1496 and 1498, he founded the city of Santo Domingo, the modern-day capital of the Dominican Republic.

Isabella, Eve III

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migration patterns
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WW II Navy art

10/16/2025

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Title: The Spider and the Fly, USS Hornet
Artist: Commander Dwight Shepler, USN 1905-1974
Date of painting: 1945; Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: height 28 in.; width 40 in.


Born in Everett, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Williams College, Shepler became a member of the American Artists' Group and the American Artists Professional League. Commissioned in the Navy in May 1942 and assigned to the Combat Art Section, he first traveled with a destroyer on Pacific convoy duty. For his service as a Combat Artist, the Navy awarded Shepler the Bronze Star. After the war, he continued his career as a pioneer watercolorist of the high ski country and served as president of the Guild of Boston Artists.
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Charpentier/Jouvenet

10/15/2025

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Baroque
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Here is the response to the protestant revolt from the King Himself expressing His love for the Other Two.


drums - the beating heart
strings - heart strings pulling
baritone - Father; tenor - Son; countertenor - Holy Ghost
soprano - Mary and the Women

Music
Title: "Te Deum" written 1692
Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1643-1704 France
The name is the root of carpenter.

Art
Title: The Descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles painted 1708
Artist: Jean Jouvenet 1644-1717 France
The name is the root of juvenile.

Jouvenet died on 5 April 1717, having been forced by paralysis during the last four years of his life to work with his left hand. 

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Why are they not declared saints? I can answer that. Rome has no appreciation for music and art, or arithmetic: 8 + 3 = 11.

Easily imagined are Latin Mass Catholics organizing around a monastery and cathedral, producing independent thinkers, educated juveniles, musicians, singers, artists, farmers, and tradesmen, but we have no leader, found in Heaven and easily imagined.
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C-H Gervais

10/14/2025

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Music
Title: Miserere mei, Deus
Composer: Charles-Hubert Gervais 1671-1744 French
Style: Baroque
Art
Title: The Penitent Magdalene
Artist: Francesco Trevisani 1656-1746 Italian
Style: late Baroque, early Rococo
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De profundis clamavi

10/8/2025

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translation: Out of the depths, I have cried
composer: Michel-Richard Delalande
artist: 
Laurent Pécheux, date 1768
title: Penitent Magdalene
Sixth Penitential Song
​Psalm 129

next pope: Sixtus the Sixth

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transverberation

10/8/2025

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Ecstasy of St. Teresa with St. Michael the Archangel
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artist unknown, late 1600s to early 1700s, oil on canvas, 44⅞ × 62 in, rare painting, the English word coming from the Latin verb transverberāre, "to strike or pierce through", Avila's mystical experience of a divine piercing 1515-1582 (and Cupid's balancing act)

The scroll emerging from her mouth reads: “Misericordias Domini in eternum cantabo” or “I will sing the mercies of the Lord forever,” and comes from the second line of Psalm 88. It is found on the only portrait from life of Teresa by Sevillian Friar Juan de la Miseria and circulated widely in a later print by Hieronymus Wierix.
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Known provenance: Ramon Osuna (Pyramid Galleries), Washington, DC; purchased by Michael R. and Yvonne Shapiro, Beverly Hills, CA, 1979; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 1980, No. 1980.173

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Messe de morts

10/6/2025

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another Levens work assessing Catholics
Mass of the Dead
Music
Lingua Latina

​Art
​French title: La serpiente de metal
English titles: The Metal Serpent, The Brazen Serpent, Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Artist: Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671)

Collection: Museo del Prado, Spain
Medium: oil on canvas

Date: 1653-1654
Style: Baroque
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assessing Catholics

10/3/2025

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Old Order
My remarks apply to Old Order priests, nuns, and laypeople.
1) There is no inner recollection; oh, it's called that, but it isn't.
2) There is no independent thinking, just blind obedience to a master.
3) They can never know, as cradle Catholics, what having no faith is like.
4) None have had a supernatural conversion, or two, or three, or more.
5) There is a thirst for power, not humility, especially among women.
6) None have a strong will, which would rebel against bad leaders.
7) They remain in place for an inability to do something else.
8) Their education is poor, and the result is brainwashing.
9) They will never admit to causing the decline.

Title: Deus noster refugium. God is our refuge.
Music: Charles Levens, French Baroque composer 1689-1764
Art: The Flight to Egypt, Tiepolo
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Los_hebreos_recogiendo_el_man%C3%A1_en_el_desierto_(boceto)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Title: The Hebrews gathering Manna in the Wilderness
​Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), c. 1740
Medium: oil on canvas; accession number 2566
Dimensions: height 3.62 in; width 2.63 in
Collection: National Museum of Fine Art
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Jackie Norris

10/1/2025

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United States
Read ​Ian Roberts in custody for the official ICE press release. Guyana is in South America. In August 2025, Norris announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 US Senate election in Iowa.
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  • Illustration of Bellevue, Iowa, from the Mississippi River facing west
  • Created by Henry Lewis on his expedition and documentation of the Upper Mississippi River in 1848, published in Das illustrirte Mississippitha in 1857
  • West of Bellevue the Des Moines River, French for River of the Monks
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What is belief?

9/30/2025

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Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Belief is a movement of God, not yours. If He hasn't already moved, wait. The same is true of a calling. I've listened to many of them tell, and never do I hear of the moment, which is instantaneous and unique. They speak of this person and that person and that he or she was an influence. No, it doesn't work that way.

Google AI Overview
Q. Have there been any healings by the Shroud of Turin?
A. Yes, there are historical accounts and personal testimonials claiming miraculous healings attributed to the Shroud of Turin, although these claims are difficult to verify scientifically and are often considered part of faith rather than proven events. Stories range from ancient times, such as the King of Edessa's instant healing in AD 544, to more recent anecdotes like the case of 11-year-old Josie Wollam in 1954. These stories are part of the Shroud's long history as a revered relic associated with healing and miracles. [I corrected AI. They and their spawn do not understand what AD means. It precedes the number.]
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Historical Accounts of Healing
  • King Agabar V (544): According to accounts, the Shroud was displayed to the Persian army threatening the city of Edessa. The army retreated, and the King was instantly healed of a terminal illness after gazing upon it. 
  • Procession to Constantinople (944): During this time, a man possessed by an evil spirit was reportedly delivered after touching the Shroud. 
  • Ancient Edessa: Some accounts describe the Apostle Jude Thaddeus bringing the Shroud to Edessa, where it is said that a leper was cleansed by it. 
Modern Testimonies
  • Josie Wollam (1954): In Gloucestershire, England, an 11-year-old girl with severe osteomyelitis and lung abscesses was reportedly healed after she heard about lectures on the Shroud. 

The Catholic Church recognizes these stories as authentic miraculous events and part of its tradition. Hopefully, the Shroud of Turin will bring about more healings.

Francis was not a believer. Truth never crossed his lips. The communist, suspected abuser of seminarians, and linguistic rapist, was the worst pope ever, thus far, and it will take years to undo what he did. History will prove me right.

He once said that we should not turn the Church into museum, and yet his Vatican II church did just that.
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Mapcarta
I've provided two maps now that show the locations of Douai and Reims, the Douay-Rheims Bible.
The boundary between Belgium and France, formerly known as the Eldest Daughter of the Church, is the light gray line.


St James Pittsburgh
In Flanders Fields
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inner sanctuary

9/29/2025

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Blue Danube

9/26/2025

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the unmatched art of pairing



"On the Beautiful Blue Danube" a Viennese waltz
​The arts and religion set forth the ideal.
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Duomo Milan (Getty photo)
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Turkish & English

9/25/2025

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Singer: Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Artist: Theodor Grosse (1865) 1829-1891
​Nationality: German, born in Dresden
Composer: Father Antonio Vivaldi
Collection: Art Renewal Center
Depicted: Mrs. Agnes Jordan
Language: Latin


Notes:
  • The countertenor is a rare voice type because the physiological ability to produce this high, falsetto-like sound is uncommon in men. Historically tied to musical periods like Baroque, the countertenor voice is resurging. (Morten Harket falsetto)
  • Vivaldi did not typically employ countertenors; he mostly wrote for women. In other Italian cities, such as Rome and Naples, where women's public singing was often forbidden, castrati performed the roles.
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