Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music and vice versa. As Lockhart concludes, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770-1830. Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 begins with an exploration of a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from around 1800, then traces and connects a set of core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520284432

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Ellen Lockhart is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto. She has coedited, with James Davies, Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851, and her critical edition of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West is forthcoming.

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"As with any scholarship that treats its material with sensitivity and thoroughness, here the subject justifies itself and the reader is motivated to keep reading—both within the book and without. That, after all, is perhaps the highest praise one could offer any new work, particularly one that disentangles such a beautiful can of worms."

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dancing Statues2. Pimmalione3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical ElectrificationConclusionNotesBibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex