Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520284437 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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It will be read with much interest and pleasure not only by musicologists, but also by historians of dance, science, aesthetics, and philosophy, and by anybody who cares about the connections between music and the human body.”—Emanuele Senici, author of Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera “This is an intelligent and beautifully written book. The Galatean narrative of becoming-through-sensing turns out to be foundational to the very emergence of aesthetic theory across Europe, in ways that have striking implications for the history of both vocal and instrume
Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770–1830 begins with an exploration of a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from around 1800, then traces and connects a set of core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.. As Lockhart concludes, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770–1830. In her interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater