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Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow
Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism
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Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow
Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism
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The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall. But the latter half of the eighteenth century also saw proliferating optical technologies—including magnifying instruments, magic lanterns, peepshows, and shadow-plays—that offered new performance tools, fostered musical innovation, and shaped the very idea of "pure" music. Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow is a fascinating exploration of the early romantic blending of sight and sound as encountered in popular science, street entertainments, opera, and music criticism.
Deirdre Loughridge reveals that allusions in musical writings to optical technologies reflect their spread from fairgrounds and laboratories into public consciousness and a range of discourses, including that of music. She demonstrates how concrete points of intersection—composers' treatments of telescopes and peepshows in opera, for instance, or a shadow-play performance of a ballad—could then fuel new modes of listening that aimed to extend the senses. An illuminating look at romantic musical practices and aesthetics, this book yields surprising relations between the past and present and offers insight into our own contemporary audiovisual culture.
Deirdre Loughridge reveals that allusions in musical writings to optical technologies reflect their spread from fairgrounds and laboratories into public consciousness and a range of discourses, including that of music. She demonstrates how concrete points of intersection—composers' treatments of telescopes and peepshows in opera, for instance, or a shadow-play performance of a ballad—could then fuel new modes of listening that aimed to extend the senses. An illuminating look at romantic musical practices and aesthetics, this book yields surprising relations between the past and present and offers insight into our own contemporary audiovisual culture.
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Index
Page numbers in bold indicate images or score excerpts.
Abbate, Carolyn, 119
Abrams, M. H., The Mirror and the Lamp, 164
Adelung, Johann-Christoph, 135
Adorno, Theodor, 119, 200–201, 213
aesthetics
early Romantic, 12–14, 19, 64, 103, 117–23, 137, 158, 163–64, 197–98, 228–29, 231
expressive, 27, 87–88, 121, 158, 163–64, 194, 198
and medium purity, 12–13, 19, 117–18
mimetic, 27, 86–88, 121, 143, 158, 163–64, 194–96, 198
See also Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Algarotti, Francesco, Il Newtonianismo per le dame (1737), 32, 34
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 48
on Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 3, 60
“Besuch im Irrenhause, Der,” 48
on Haydn’s Creation, 163
See also Hoffmann, E. T. A., Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung reviews of
Ambroise / Sanquirico, Ambrosio, 126, 128
André, Johann, 144
“Lenore” (1775), 22, 123
editions of, 143
musical signifiers in, 148–50, 158
reception of, 125, 143–45, 148, 150–51
as shadow-play, 131, 132 (see also Berberich, Henriette von: “Lenore” shadow-play)
structure of, 145–48
See also Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel
Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess, 176
“Orgelum, orgeley,” 178–79, 179, 181, 185, 258nn39–40, 259n48
Anna Amalia of Prussia, Princess, 139
Applegate, Celia, 16, 260n62
Aristotle, 86
Ashby, Arved, 232
Astarita, Gennaro, Il mondo della luna (1775), 31, 36
Astley, Philip, 127, 251n17
audiovisual culture, 9, 11–16, 18–19, 119, 2...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION Audiovisual Histories
- ONE From Mimesis to Prosthesis
- TWO Opera as Peepshow
- THREE Shadow Media
- FOUR Haydn’s Creation as Moving Image
- FIVE Beethoven’s Phantasmagoria
- CONCLUSION Audiovisual Returns
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates