Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 / Ellen Lockhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lockhart, Ellen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dramatic music--Italy--18th century.

Dramatic music.

Dramatic music--Italy--19th century.

Operas--Literary themes, motives.

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an 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 reveals, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770-1830. Taking as its point of departure a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from this period, Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy traces its core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Attentive Statues

2. Pimmalione

3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome

4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy

5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical Electrification

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520960060

0520960068

OCLC:

1001334312