Boccherini's body : an essay in carnal musicology /

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 Boc...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Le Guin, Elisabeth, 1957-
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2006.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppczk
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.