Boccherini's Body An Essay in Carnal Musicology
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520240179 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 24 Jan 2006 |
DEWEY: | 780.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 350 |
Weight: | 704g |
Height: | 237mm |
Width: | 164mm |
Spine width: | 33mm |