Mimomania : Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera /

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A contribution to the study of 19th century opera, this text focuses on the relationship between music and gesture to provide a new perspective that yields an array of insights.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smart, Mary Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Muziek.
Opera's.
Gebaren.
Oper
Gestik
Opera.
Gesture in opera.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Gestes à l'opera.
Opera > Europe > 19e siecle.
Opera > Europe > 19th century.
Europe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In praise of overstatement
  • Wagner's cancan, Fenella's leap ; La muette de Portici and Auber's reality effect
  • Bellini's unseen voices
  • "Every word made flesh" ; les Huguenots and the incarnation of the invisible
  • Uneasy bodies : Verdi and sublimation
  • Mimomania : allegory and embodiment in Wagner's music dramas.

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