Boccherini's body : an essay in carnal musicology / Elisabeth Le Guin.

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Le Guin, Elisabeth, 1957-

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computer

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online resource

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9780520930629
0520930622
1423745434
9781423745433
1598759191
9781598759198
1282759264
9781282759268
9786612759260
6612759267

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Boccherini's body.DDC classification:

780/.92 22

LOC classification:

ML410.B66 L4 2006eb

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J602
J609. 546

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Contents:

Cello-and-bow thinking : the first movement of Boccherini's Cello sonata in E♭ major, Fuori catalogo -- As my works show me to be : biographical -- Gestures and tableaux -- Virtuosity, virtuality, virtue -- A melancholy anatomy -- It is all cloth of the same piece : the early string quartets -- The perfect listener : a re-creation -- Appendix : chronological table of string quartets.

Summary: 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. --Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-344) and 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 Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries into the nature of the self. --Publisher description.