Boccherini's body : an essay in carnal musicology / / Elisabeth Le Guin
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| Autore: |
Le Guin Elisabeth <1957->
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| Titolo: |
Boccherini's body : an essay in carnal musicology / / Elisabeth Le Guin
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 780/.92 |
| Soggetto topico: | Music - Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of music examples -- CD playlist -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "Cello-and-Bow Thinking" -- Chapter 2. "As My Works Show Me to Be" -- Chapter 3. Gestures and Tableaux -- Chapter 4. Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue -- Chapter 5. A Melancholy Anatomy -- Chapter 6. "It Is All Cloth of the Same Piece" -- Chapter 7. The Perfect Listener -- Appendix: Chronological Table of String Quartets -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this elegant study of the works of the undeservedly neglected composer Luigi Boccherini, Elisabeth Le Guin uses knowledge gleaned from her own playing of the cello as the keystone of her original approach to the relationship between music and embodiment. In analyzing the striking qualities of Boccherini's music-its virtuosity, repetitiveness, obsessively nuanced dynamics, delicate sonorities, and rich palette of melancholy affects-Le Guin develops a historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer. In the process, she redefines the temperament of the musical Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries into the nature of the self. A CD of sound examples, performed by the author and her string quartet, is included with the book. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Boccherini's body |
| ISBN: | 1-282-75926-4 |
| 9786612759260 | |
| 0-520-93062-2 | |
| 1-59875-919-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827043903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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ACLS Fellows’ publications.