Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 / / Ellen Lockhart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910493696903321
• Autore: Lockhart Ellen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-520-96006-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 782.1094509033
• Soggetti: Dramatic music - Italy - 18th century; Dramatic music - Italy - 19th century; Operas - Literary themes, motives; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Attentive Statues -- 2. Pimmalione -- 3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome -- 4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy -- 5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical Electrification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa. As Lockhart reveals, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770-1830. Taking as its point of departure a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from this period, Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy traces its core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.