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Nineteenth-century opera and the scientific imagination / edited by David Trippett, Benjamin Walton.

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Språk: Engelska Utgivning: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019Beskrivning: xv, 381 pages illustrations (black and white)Innehållstyp:

text

Medietyp:

unmediated

Bärartyp:

volume

ISBN:

9781107111257
1107111250

Varianttitel:

19th-century opera and the scientific imagination

Ämne:

Genre/Form:

History.

Fler format: ebook version :: Ingen titelDDK-klassifikation:

782.109/034 23

LC-klassifikation:

ML1705

Sammanfattning: 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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A	B32.843	Available	26201863988

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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