Smart, Mary Ann.
Mimomania music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / [electronic resource] : Mary Ann Smart. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004. - ix, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - California studies in 19th century music ; 13 . - California studies in 19th century music ; 13. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Opera--Europe--19th century.
Gesture in opera.
Electronic books.
ML1720.4 / .S63 2004eb
782.1/09/034
Mimomania music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / [electronic resource] : Mary Ann Smart. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004. - ix, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - California studies in 19th century music ; 13 . - California studies in 19th century music ; 13. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Opera--Europe--19th century.
Gesture in opera.
Electronic books.
ML1720.4 / .S63 2004eb
782.1/09/034