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Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology.(Book review)
Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology. By Elisabeth Le Guin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. [374 p. ISBN 0-520-24017-0. $39.95.] Illustrations, music examples, compact disc.
Instrumental music of the second half of the eighteenth century is, by nature, an abstract art form. Barring a specific reference by a composer linking his or her work to a text, image, or idea, the analyst has traditionally turned to an objective approach in studying a work. One reason Jan LaRue's Guidelines for Stylistic Analysis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970) has worked so well for so many is that it provides a common and straightforward vocabulary which can be ...
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