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Understanding Boccherini's Manuscripts.
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ISBN: 1443859206 1306636914 9781306636919 9781443859202 9781443856638 1443856630 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The eight chapters of Understanding Boccherini's Manuscripts discuss various aspects of the study of the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), one of the foremost composers of the second half of the eighteenth century. This book begins by outlining the various types that can be distinguished among the manuscripts written by the composer himself or by his copyists, such as manuscripts for archival purposes, for publishers and for patrons. Germán Labrador continues w...


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Luigi Boccherini : 1743-1805
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ISBN: 9058262014 9789058262011 Year: 2002 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds

Boccherini's body
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ISBN: 1282759264 9786612759260 0520930622 1598759191 9780520930629 1423745434 9781423745433 9781598759198 0520240170 9780520240179 9781282759268 6612759267 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley

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In this elegant study of the works of the undeservedly neglected composer Luigi Boccherini, Elisabeth Le Guin uses knowledge gleaned from her own playing of the cello as the keystone of her original 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-Le Guin develops a historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer. In the process, she redefines the temperament of the musical Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries into the nature of the self. A CD of sound examples, performed by the author and her string quartet, is included with the book.

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