TY - BOOK AU - Smart,Mary Ann ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Mimomania: music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera T2 - California studies in 19th century music AV - ML1720.4 .S63 2004eb U1 - 782.1/09/034 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Opera KW - Europe KW - 19th century KW - Gesture in opera KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; In praise of overstatement -- Wagner's cancan, Fenella's leap ; La muette de Portici and Auber's reality effect -- Bellini's unseen voices -- "Every word made flesh" ; les Huguenots and the incarnation of the invisible -- Uneasy bodies : Verdi and sublimation -- Mimomania : allegory and embodiment in Wagner's music dramas; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10068589 ER -