Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Trippett, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Scientific thinking has long been linked to music theory and instrument making, yet the profound and often surprising intersections between the sciences and opera during the long nineteenth century are here explored for the first time. These touch on a wide variety of topics, including vocal physiology, theories of listening and sensory communication, technologies of theatrical machinery and discourses of biological degeneration. Taken together, the chapters reveal an intertwined cultural history that extends from backstage hydraulics to drawing-room hypnotism, and from laryngoscopy to theatrical aeronautics. Situated at the intersection of opera studies and the history of science, the book therefore offers a novel and illuminating set of case studies, of a kind that will appeal to historians of both science and opera, and of European culture more generally from the French Revolution to the end of the Victorian period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316996997
• Artikelnr.: 66231630

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the laboratory and the stage David Trippett and Benjamin
Walton; Part I. Voices: 2. Pneumotypes: Jean de Reszke's high pianissimos
and the occult sciences of breathing James Q. Davies; 3. Vocal culture in
the age of laryngoscopy Benjamin Steege; 4. Operatic fantasies in early
nineteenth-century psychiatry Carmel Raz; 5. Opera and hypnosis: Victor
Maurel's experiments in suggestion with Verdi's Otello Céline Frigau
Manning; Part II. Ears: 6. Hearing space in the music of Hector Berlioz
Julia Kursell; 7. From distant sounds to Aeolian ears: Ernst Kapp's
auditory prosthesis David Trippett; 8. Wagner, hearing loss, and the urban
soundscape of late nineteenth-century Germany James Deaville; Part III.
Technologies: 9. Science, technology and love in late eighteenth-century
opera Deirdre Loughridge; 10. Technological phantoms of the opéra Benjamin
Walton; 11. Circuit listening Ellen Lockhart; Part IV. Bodies: 12.
Excelsior as mass ornament: the reproduction of gesture Gavin Williams; 13.
Automata, physiology and opera Myles Jackson; 14. Wagnerian manipulation:
Bayreuth and the sciences of the mind James Kennaway; 15. Unsound seeds
Alexander Rehding.