"This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment id…
Introduction -- Dancing statues -- Pimmalione -- Defining Italy in haunted Rome -- Partial animacy and blind listening in Napoleonic Italy -- Giuditta pasta and the history of musical electrification -- Conclusion "This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a cr…
"This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment id…