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Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (Hardcover)
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Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (Hardcover)
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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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