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Animation, plasticity, and music in Italy, 1770-1830 /

"This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced I...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lockhart, Ellen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Dancing statues
  • Pimmalione
  • Defining Italy in haunted Rome
  • Partial animacy and blind listening in Napoleonic Italy
  • Giuditta pasta and the history of musical electrification
  • Conclusion.