Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology Hardcover - 2005
by Elisabeth Le Guin
First line
Anyone who performs old music or who has written about its history can attest to identifying with composers.
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"Boccherini's Body is extremely important, both for its new directions and for its unique combination of interests. It offers a considerable amount of little-known material, and does so daringly and skillfully. Le Guin is a joy to read."--John Butt, author of Playing With History
"Virtuoso writing by a professional performer, this book unites history, biography, cultural studies, and a physically-lived sense of Boccherini's music. It is a work of unusual scholarly imagination; not only does it bring an under-studied body of music to light, but it also introduces new ways to think about performance in historical context."--Mary Hunter, author of the Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
"Le Guin's book is an adventure in new forms of musical analysis, with a beguilingly passionate, yet rigorous style of philosophical introspection. Her book explodes old analytical paradigms, attending to the technologies and erotics of musical performance in ways some have wanted to do but none have achieved as Le Guin has. This book will catapult Le Guin to stardom."--Martha Feldman, author of City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice
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- Title Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology
- Author Elisabeth Le Guin
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Har/Com
- Pages 376
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-11-09
- ISBN 9780520240179 / 0520240170
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.42 x 1.24 in (23.52 x 16.31 x 3.15 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Music - Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics,, Boccherini, Luigi - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005023224
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.92
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Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2006, Page 122
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