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1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : audiovisual histories -- From mimesis to prosthesis -- Opera as peepshow -- Shadow media -- Haydn's Creation as moving image -- Beethoven's phantasmagoria -- Conclusion : audiovisual returns. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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18th century |
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Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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19th century |
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Mixed media (Music) -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Mixed media (Music) |
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Mixed media (Music) -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Music and technology -- History -- 18th century.
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Music and technology -- History -- 19th century.
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Music and technology. |
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. |
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History. |
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MUSIC -- Reference. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Loughridge, Deirdre. Haydn's sunrise, Beethoven's shadow. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226337098 (DLC) 2015046824 (OCoLC)920017443 |
| ISBN |
9780226337128 (electronic book) |
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022633712X (electronic book) |
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9780226337098 |
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022633709X |
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