Nineteenth-century opera and the scientific imagination / edited by David Trippett, Benjamin Walton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trippett, David, 1980- editor.

Walton, Benjamin, 1972- editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--19th century.

Opera.

Music and science--History--19th century.

Music and science.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 381 pages) : illustrations (black and white

Other Title:

19th-century opera and the scientific imagination

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : The laboratory and the stage / David Trippett and Benjamin Walton

Part I. Voices. Pneumotypes : Jean de Reszke's high pianissimos and the occult sciences of breathing / James Q. Davies ; Vocal culture in the age of laryngoscopy / Benjamin Steege ; Operatic fantasies in early nineteenth-century psychiatry / Carmel Raz ; Opera and hypnosis : Victor Maurel's experiments with Verdi's Otello / Céline Frigau Manning

Part II. Ears. Hearing in the music of Hector Berlioz / Julia Kursell ; From distant sounds to Aeolian ears : Ernst Kapp's auditory prosthesis / David Trippett ; Wagner, hearing loss and the urban soundscape of nineteenth-century Germany / James Deaville

Part III. Technologies. Science, technology and love in late eighteenth-century opera / Deirdre Loughridge ; Technological phantoms of the Opéra / Benjamin Walton ; Circuit listening / Ellen Lockhart

Part IV. Bodies. Excelsior as mass ornament : the reproduction of gesture / Gavin Williams ; Automata, physiology and opera in the nineteenth century / Myles W. Jackson ; Wagnerian manipulation : Bayreuth and nineteenth-century sciences of the mind / James Kennaway ; Unsound seeds / Alexander Rehding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-374) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781316275863

1316275868

Publisher Number:

40029558142

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.