02607nam 22004935 450 991049369690332120211021211450.00-520-96006-810.1525/9780520960060(CKB)4340000000188403(MiAaPQ)EBC4711988(DE-B1597)519353(OCoLC)1001334312(DE-B1597)9780520960060(EXLCZ)99434000000018840320190920d2017 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAnimation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 /Ellen LockhartBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (218 pages) illustrations0-520-28443-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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.Dramatic musicItaly18th centuryDramatic musicItaly19th centuryOperasLiterary themes, motivesElectronic books.Dramatic musicDramatic musicOperasLiterary themes, motives.782.1094509033Lockhart Ellen1026452DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910493696903321Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-18302441359UNINA