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    <w id="1.1">In</w>
    <w id="1.2">the</w>
    <w id="1.3">mid-16th</w>
    <w id="1.4">century</w>
    <w id="1.5">,</w>
    <w id="1.6">Italians</w>
    <w id="1.7">were</w>
    <w id="1.8">captivated</w>
    <w id="1.9">by</w>
    <w id="1.10">a</w>
    <w id="1.11">type</w>
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    <w id="1.13">male</w>
    <w id="1.14">singer</w>
    <w id="1.15">whose</w>
    <w id="1.16">incredible</w>
    <w id="1.17">range</w>
    <w id="1.18">contained</w>
    <w id="1.19">notes</w>
    <w id="1.20">previously</w>
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    <w id="1.22">impossible</w>
    <w id="1.23">for</w>
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    <w id="1.25">men</w>
    <w id="1.26">.</w>
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    <w id="2.1">However</w>
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    <w id="2.3">this</w>
    <w id="2.4">gift</w>
    <w id="2.5">came</w>
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    <w id="2.7">a</w>
    <w id="2.8">high</w>
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    <w id="2.10">.</w>
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    <w id="3.1">To</w>
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    <w id="3.3">their</w>
    <w id="3.4">voices</w>
    <w id="3.5">from</w>
    <w id="3.6">breaking</w>
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    <w id="3.9">singers</w>
    <w id="3.10">had</w>
    <w id="3.11">been</w>
    <w id="3.12">castrated</w>
    <w id="3.13">before</w>
    <w id="3.14">puberty</w>
    <w id="3.15">,</w>
    <w id="3.16">halting</w>
    <w id="3.17">the</w>
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    <w id="3.19">processes</w>
    <w id="3.20">that</w>
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    <w id="4.4">,</w>
    <w id="4.5">their</w>
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    <w id="4.8">angelic</w>
    <w id="4.9">voices</w>
    <w id="4.10">were</w>
    <w id="4.11">renowned</w>
    <w id="4.12">throughout</w>
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    <w id="4.14">,</w>
    <w id="4.15">until</w>
    <w id="4.16">the</w>
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    <w id="4.19">that</w>
    <w id="4.20">created</w>
    <w id="4.21">them</w>
    <w id="4.22">was</w>
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    <w id="4.24">in</w>
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    <w id="4.26">1800s</w>
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    <w id="5.1">Though</w>