03588nam 22008655 450 991081034190332120230809233753.00-520-96006-810.1525/9780520960060(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, motivesaesthetic theory.animated statue.art.artists.drama.enlightenment.epistemology of sensing.historical.interdisciplinary.italian ballets.italian music.italian musical performances.italian operas.italian theater.italy.itinerant performance traditions.live entertainment.melodramas.music criticism.music history.musical practice.musical.nationhood fantasies.opera music.performing arts.philosophy.science.sciences of the body.stage works.theatre.theatrical.theory of language.Dramatic musicDramatic musicOperasLiterary themes, motives.782.1094509033Lockhart Ellen1709001DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910810341903321Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-18304098409UNINA