Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology
Elisabeth Le Guin
Abstract
This study of the works of Luigi Boccherini uses knowledge gleaned from the author's own playing of the cello as the keystone of her approach to the relationship between music and embodiment. In analyzing the striking qualities of Boccherini's music—its virtuosity, repetitiveness, obsessively nuanced dynamics, delicate sonorities, and rich palette of melancholy affects—the book develops an historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer. In the process, it redefines the temperament of the musical Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries in ... More
Keywords: cello, critical method, embodiment, musical Enlightenment, self, string quartet
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520240179 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520240179.001.0001 |
