Boccherini's body : an essay in carnal musicology


Elisabeth Le Guin
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Berkeley : University of California Press , 2006
Omfang
XXIV, 350 s. : mus.
Opplysninger
1 CD i lomme. - Contents; List of Figures; List of Music Examples; CD Playlist; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "Cello-and-Bow Thinking": The First Movement of Boccherini's Cello Sonata in Eb Major, Fuori Catalogo; 2. "As My Works Show Me to Be": Biographical; 3. Gestures and Tableaux; 4. Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue; 5. A Melancholy Anatomy; 6. "It Is All Cloth of the Same Piece": The Early String Quartets; 7. The Perfect Listener: A Recreation; Appendix: Chronological Table of String Quartets; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - 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 En
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Electronic books. . - CD (Form) : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01382. - CD
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ISBN
0520240170

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