Mimomania [electronic resource] : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / Mary Ann Smart.
By: Smart, Mary Ann.
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BookSeries: California studies in 19th century music: 13.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004Description: ix, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Opera -- Europe -- 19th century | Gesture in operaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 782.1/09/034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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