Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera by Mary Ann Smart
Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera

Mary Ann Smart

Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera

Mary Ann Smart

254 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging reflective medium-paced
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When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "the most enthusiastic mimomaniac" ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements. Mary Ann...

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