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 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.

ISBN:	9780520240179
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	09 Nov 2005
DEWEY:	780.92
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	350
Weight:	704g
Height:	237mm
Width:	164mm
Spine width:	33mm

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