Romantic anatomies of performance / / J.Q. Davies
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| Autore: |
Davies J. Q. <1973->
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| Titolo: |
Romantic anatomies of performance / / J.Q. Davies
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| 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 genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-520-95800-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464724803321 |
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