Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830.

Cover -- Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Attentive Statues -- 2. Pimmalione -- 3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome -- 4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy -- 5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical Electrification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.

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 traces its core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.