| Description |
xiii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities
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Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Veluti in speculum : the twilight of the castrato -- Reflecting on reflex : a touching fact about Chopin -- The Sontag-Malibran stereotype -- Boneless hands/Thalberg's ready-made soul/velvet fingers -- In search of voice : Nourrit's voix mixte, Donzelli's bari-tenor -- Liszt's metapianism and the cultural history of the hand. |
| Summary |
" ... Is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians."--book jacket. |
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"Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London and Paris, the most dynamic musical centers of nineteenth-century Europe. In their day, performers such as these provoked an avalanche of commentary and analysis, inspiring debates over the nature of mind and body, emotion and materiality, spirituality and mechanism, artistry and skill. J. Q. Davies revisits these debates, examining how key musicians and their contemporaries made sense of extraordinary musical and physical abilities. This is a history told as much from scientific and medical writings as traditionally musicological ones. Davies describes competing notions of vocal and pianistic health, contrasts techniques of training, and explores the ways in which music acts in the cultivation of bodies." -- Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Music -- Performance -- History.
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Music -- Performance. |
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History. |
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Virtuosité (musique) -- 19e siècle. |
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Voix -- Aspect physiologique -- 19e siècle. |
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Pianistes -- Physiologie -- 19e siècle. |
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Musique -- histoire. |
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Virtuose. |
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Virtuosität. |
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Anatomie. |
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Musikalische Aufführungspraxis. |
| ISBN |
9780520279391 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0520279395 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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