| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Dancing statues -- Pimmalione -- Defining Italy in haunted Rome -- Partial animacy and blind listening in Napoleonic Italy -- Giuditta pasta and the history of musical electrification -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her 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 concludes, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770-1830. 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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dramatic music -- Italy -- 18th century.
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Dramatic music. |
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Italy. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Dramatic music -- Italy -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Operas -- Literary themes, motives.
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Operas -- Literary themes, motives. |
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Enlightenment -- Italy -- Influence.
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Enlightenment. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lockhart, Ellen. Animation, plasticity, and music in Italy, 1770-1830. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520284432 (DLC) 2017017413 (OCoLC)961308298 |
| ISBN |
9780520960060 (electronic book) |
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0520960068 (electronic book) |
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9780520284432 |
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0520284437 |
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