Boccherini’s Body: An Essay in Carnal MusicologyUniversity of California Press, 9 nov 2005 - 376 pagina's 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 Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries into the nature of the self. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
The First Movement of Boccherinis Cello Sonata in Eb Major Fuori Catalogo | 14 |
Biographical | 38 |
3 Gestures and Tableaux | 65 |
4 Virtuosity Virtuality Virtue | 105 |
5 A Melancholy Anatomy | 160 |
The Early String Quartets | 207 |
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