Music, Pantomime & Freedom in Enlightenment France Hedy Law Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020 pp. xx + 265, ISBN 978 1 783 2756 01
Hedy Law emphasizes that pantomime falls within a genealogy of dance as well as an archaeology of communication: through a comprehensive study of pantomime in Paris, she narrates how the significance of physical and musical gesture was honed and refined over the course of the eighteenth century. Law...
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| Vydáno v: | Eighteenth Century Music Ročník 19; číslo 2; s. 205 - 207 |
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| Médium: | Book Review |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
01.09.2022
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| ISSN: | 1478-5706, 1478-5714 |
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| Shrnutí: | Hedy Law emphasizes that pantomime falls within a genealogy of dance as well as an archaeology of communication: through a comprehensive study of pantomime in Paris, she narrates how the significance of physical and musical gesture was honed and refined over the course of the eighteenth century. Law argues that when the audience understood the sight of musicians leaving the stage as an allusion to the Concert Spirituel's move to a new location, physical gesture and movement – no longer restricted to the theatre – came to convey comprehensible meaning to concert-hall listeners. According to Law, Salieri's ‘Danaids demonstrate kinetic and spatial freedom, but their unrestrained freedom indicates “corporal liberty” and not freedom of motion, because there is no evidence that they are capable of reflecting upon their behaviors before they take action’ (157). While the scenarios in this book took place in textual and theatrical frames, they were instrumentalized in the political arenas of the French Revolution. |
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| Bibliografie: | content type line 1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Review-1 |
| ISSN: | 1478-5706 1478-5714 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1478570622000057 |