« Gestire a tempo con la pronunzia delle parole » : traces textuelles du geste scénique dans les premières favole in musica
Our paper reconstructs the way in which opera creators, both theorists and practitioners, conceive the relationship between words and gestures, by comparing texts that set down stage gestures in writing, between instruction and reception. It seems that they attribute to stage gestures an auxiliary f...
| Published in: | Laboratoire Italien |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | French |
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École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions
2020-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/5802 |
| Summary: | Our paper reconstructs the way in which opera creators, both theorists and practitioners, conceive the relationship between words and gestures, by comparing texts that set down stage gestures in writing, between instruction and reception. It seems that they attribute to stage gestures an auxiliary function of communication, semantic clarification and pathetic amplification of affetti and ideas conveyed by words – as the recitar cantando is based on the primacy of the poetic text. We will then question in what way these concepts may condition the very genesis of poetic-dramatic writing. By analysing the stage direction and the relationship between narration and the direct mimesis of movement and gesture in librettos of Ottavio Rinuccini, we will question the notion of theatrical visibility, and its implication in terms of the hierarchy between verbal, musical and corporeal eloquence. |
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| ISSN: | 1627-9204 2117-4970 |