Boccherini’s Body: An Essay in Carnal MusicologyIn 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. |
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... feel in their hearts all that he has notated; they must come together, rehearse, investi- gate, finally study the mind of the author, then execute his works. In this way they almost succeed in stealing the applause from the com- poser ...
... feel in their hearts all that he has notated; they must come together, rehearse, investi- gate, finally study the mind of the author, then execute his works. In this way they almost succeed in stealing the applause from the com- poser ...
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... feel that there were qual- ities in Boccherini's music that intrigued me far more than his acknowledged innovations in style , form , and genre , qualities that made it unlike any other eighteenth - century music I had ever known , and ...
... feel that there were qual- ities in Boccherini's music that intrigued me far more than his acknowledged innovations in style , form , and genre , qualities that made it unlike any other eighteenth - century music I had ever known , and ...
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... feeling . ” Our statue , deprived of smell , of hearing , of taste , of sight , and limited to the sense of touch , now exists through the feeling she has of the action of the parts of her body one upon the other — above all the ...
... feeling . ” Our statue , deprived of smell , of hearing , of taste , of sight , and limited to the sense of touch , now exists through the feeling she has of the action of the parts of her body one upon the other — above all the ...
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An Essay in Carnal Musicology Elisabeth Le Guin. The idea of fundamental feeling seems to have run through the Parisian ... feels sometimes in the interior of the flesh , in the extent of the intestines , even in the bones themselves ...
An Essay in Carnal Musicology Elisabeth Le Guin. The idea of fundamental feeling seems to have run through the Parisian ... feels sometimes in the interior of the flesh , in the extent of the intestines , even in the bones themselves ...
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... feeling ” might itself be pleasant , and so poses a crucial question . In a motionless state , the statue is ... feels good must be good . As a social theory , eudaemonism turns upon itself cannibalistically and in short order ; but as a ...
... feeling ” might itself be pleasant , and so poses a crucial question . In a motionless state , the statue is ... feels good must be good . As a social theory , eudaemonism turns upon itself cannibalistically and in short order ; but as a ...
Contents
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Biographical | 38 |
3 Gestures and Tableaux | 65 |
4 Virtuosity Virtuality Virtue | 105 |
5 A Melancholy Anatomy | 160 |
The Early String Quartets | 207 |
A Recreation | 254 |
Chronological Table of String Quartets | 271 |
Notes | 273 |
Bibliography | 331 |
Index | 345 |
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