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A study of the works of the composer Luigi Boccherini. In analyzing the striking qualities of Boccherini's music - its virtuosity, repetitiveness, obsessively nuanced dynamics, delicate sonorities, and rich palette of melancholy affects - it covers a historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer.

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List of Illustrations List of Music Examples CD Playlist Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Cello-and-Bow Thinking": The First Movement of Boccherini's Cello Sonata in E Major, G. 566 2. "As My Works Show Me to Be": Biographical 3. Gestures and Tableaux 4. Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue 5. A Melancholy Anatomy 6. "It Is All Cloth of the Same Piece": The Early String Quartets 7. The Perfect Listener: A Re-creation Appendix: Chronological Table of String Quartets Notes Bibliography Index

Boccherinis Body A Essay in Carnal Musicology

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/11/2005
      ISBN13: 9780520240179, 978-0520240179
      ISBN10: 0520240170

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of the works of the composer Luigi Boccherini. In analyzing the striking qualities of Boccherini's music - its virtuosity, repetitiveness, obsessively nuanced dynamics, delicate sonorities, and rich palette of melancholy affects - it covers a historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations List of Music Examples CD Playlist Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Cello-and-Bow Thinking": The First Movement of Boccherini's Cello Sonata in E Major, G. 566 2. "As My Works Show Me to Be": Biographical 3. Gestures and Tableaux 4. Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue 5. A Melancholy Anatomy 6. "It Is All Cloth of the Same Piece": The Early String Quartets 7. The Perfect Listener: A Re-creation Appendix: Chronological Table of String Quartets Notes Bibliography Index

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