Animation, Plasticity, And Music In Italy, 1770-1830
by Ellen Lockhart /
2017 / English / PDF, EPUB
64.3 MB Download
This 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,
This 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
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.
traces its core ideas between science, philosophy,
theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the
epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.
