Mimomania [electronic resource] : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / Mary Ann Smart.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: California studies in 19th century music ; 13.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.Description: ix, 247 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 782.1/09/034 22
LOC classification:
  • ML1720.4 .S63 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
In praise of overstatement -- Wagner's cancan, Fenella's leap ; La muette de Portici and Auber's reality effect -- Bellini's unseen voices -- "Every word made flesh" ; les Huguenots and the incarnation of the invisible -- Uneasy bodies : Verdi and sublimation -- Mimomania : allegory and embodiment in Wagner's music dramas.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In praise of overstatement -- Wagner's cancan, Fenella's leap ; La muette de Portici and Auber's reality effect -- Bellini's unseen voices -- "Every word made flesh" ; les Huguenots and the incarnation of the invisible -- Uneasy bodies : Verdi and sublimation -- Mimomania : allegory and embodiment in Wagner's music dramas.

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