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Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,968
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Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (Hardcover): David Trippett, Benjamin Walton

Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (Hardcover)

David Trippett, Benjamin Walton

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2019
Editors: David Trippett • Benjamin Walton
Dimensions: 263 x 183 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-11125-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
LSN: 1-107-11125-0
Barcode: 9781107111257

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