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Romantic anatomies of performance / / J.Q. Davies



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Autore: Davies J. Q. <1973-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Romantic anatomies of performance / / J.Q. Davies Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
Disciplina: 781.4/309034
Soggetto topico: Music - 19th century - History and criticism
Music - Performance - History
Soggetto non controllato: castrato
celebrity pianists
franz liszt
frederic francois chopin
giovanni battista rubini
giovanni battista velluti
historical
history of music
history
live entertainment
maria felicia malibran
medical approach to music
music and physical impacts
music
musical expression
musical performers
musicians
musicological
opera
pianistic health
pianists
piano
scientific approach to music
sigismond thalberg
singers
techniques of musical training
virtuosic musicians
vocal health
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Romantic anatomies of performance  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95800-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822815903321
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