Boccherini's body : an essay in carnal musicology / Elisabeth Le Guin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Guin, Elisabeth, 1957-

Series:

ACLS Fellows’ publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805--Criticism and interpretation.

Boccherini, Luigi.

Music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this elegant study of the works of the undeservedly neglected composer Luigi Boccherini, Elisabeth Le Guin uses knowledge gleaned from her own playing of the cello as the keystone of her original approach to the relationship between music and embodiment. In analyzing the striking qualities of Boccherini's music-its virtuosity, repetitiveness, obsessively nuanced dynamics, delicate sonorities, and rich palette of melancholy affects-Le Guin develops a historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer. In the process, she redefines the temperament of the musical Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries into the nature of the self. A CD of sound examples, performed by the author and her string quartet, is included with the book.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of figures

List of music examples

CD playlist

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. "Cello-and-Bow Thinking"

Chapter 2. "As My Works Show Me to Be"

Chapter 3. Gestures and Tableaux

Chapter 4. Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue

Chapter 5. A Melancholy Anatomy

Chapter 6. "It Is All Cloth of the Same Piece"

Chapter 7. The Perfect Listener

Appendix: Chronological Table of String Quartets

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612759260

9781282759268

1282759264

9780520930629

0520930622

9781598759198

1598759191

OCLC:

475969667