Nineteenth-Century Opera and The Scientific Imagination / Ed. David Trippett and Benjamin Walton.

Scientific thinking has long been linked to music theory and instrument making, yet the profound and often surprising intersections between the sciences and opera during the long nineteenth century are here explored for the first time. These touch on a wide variety of topics, including vocal physiology, theories of listening and sensory communication, technologies of theatrical machinery and discourses of biological degeneration. With an introduction and index.

396 p.; 26 cm.
Cloth

Language: English
ISBN: 1107111250
ISBN13: 9781107111257