Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 (e-bog) af Lockhart, Ellen
Lockhart, Ellen

Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 e-bog

619,55 DKK
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, EllenLockhartdeftly shows how Enlightenment ideasinfluenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa. AsLockhartreveals, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical …
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, EllenLockhartdeftly shows how Enlightenment ideasinfluenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa. AsLockhartreveals, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 17701830. Taking as its point of departure a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from this period,Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italytraces its core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.
E-bog 619,55 DKK
Forfattere Lockhart, Ellen (forfatter)
Udgivet 19.09.2017
Længde 232 sider
Genrer 1DST
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780520960060

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, EllenLockhartdeftly shows how Enlightenment ideasinfluenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa. AsLockhartreveals, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 17701830. Taking as its point of departure a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from this period,Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italytraces its core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.