Title Mimomania : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / Mary Ann Smart.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 247 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	California studies in 19th century music ; 13
	California studies in 19th century music ; 13.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	In praise of overstatement -- Wagner's cancan, Fenella's leap ; La muette de Portici and Auber's reality effect -- Bellini's unseen voices -- "Every word made flesh" ; les Huguenots and the incarnation of the invisible -- Uneasy bodies : Verdi and sublimation -- Mimomania : allegory and embodiment in Wagner's music dramas.
Summary	A contribution to the study of 19th century opera, this text focuses on the relationship between music and gesture to provide a new perspective that yields an array of insights.
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Subject	Opera -- Europe -- 19th century.
	Opera.
	Europe.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Gesture in opera.
	Gesture in opera.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Smart, Mary Ann. Mimomania. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004 0520239954 (DLC) 2003014271 (OCoLC)52775124
ISBN	9780520939875 (electronic book)
	0520939875 (electronic book)
	0520239954
	9780520239951
	1597347531
	9781597347532