Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow : Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism / Deirdre Loughridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loughridge, Deirdre, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--18th century--History and criticism.

Music.

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

Mixed media (Music)--18th century--History and criticism.

Mixed media (Music).

Mixed media (Music)--19th century--History and criticism.

Music and technology--History--18th century.

Music and technology.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall. But the latter half of the eighteenth century also saw proliferating optical technologies-including magnifying instruments, magic lanterns, peepshows, and shadow-plays-that offered new performance tools, fostered musical innovation, and shaped the very idea of "pure" music. Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow is a fascinating exploration of the early romantic blending of sight and sound as encountered in popular science, street entertainments, opera, and music criticism. Deirdre Loughridge reveals that allusions in musical writings to optical technologies reflect their spread from fairgrounds and laboratories into public consciousness and a range of discourses, including that of music. She demonstrates how concrete points of intersection-composers' treatments of telescopes and peepshows in opera, for instance, or a shadow-play performance of a ballad-could then fuel new modes of listening that aimed to extend the senses. An illuminating look at romantic musical practices and aesthetics, this book yields surprising relations between the past and present and offers insight into our own contemporary audiovisual culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Audiovisual Histories

One. From Mimesis to Prosthesis

Two. Opera as Peepshow

Three. Shadow Media

Four. Haydn's Creation as Moving Image

Five. Beethoven's Phantasmagoria

Conclusion. Audiovisual Returns

Acknowledgments

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226337128

022633712X

OCLC:

961183701