Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520284432 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 10 Nov 2017 |
DEWEY: | 782.1094509033 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xi, 218 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 162mm |
Width: | 236mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |