CONTENTS

I.IST OF F I G U R E S
LIST

OF M U S I C

EXAMPLES

CD PLAYLIST

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction
The origins of this
generally acknowledged merless generally acknowledged qualities "carnal musicology "
based in the performer's
of each chapter to
the terms
and fiction

Thinking": The First Movement

of Boccherini's Cello Sonata in
Major,
Fuori Catalogo
Reciprocity of relationship
performer
dead composerframing the
reading the first half the
ment in question
in
bel
of reflective and pathetic affects
and
on the role of the
as a
second half of the
mentrelationships between musicalform and carnal
cherini's
and compositional process
importance of the
conclusion: the necessary ambivalence
of my descriptions and analyses

Le Guin, Elisabeth
Boccherini's body
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2. "As My Works Show Me to Be": Biographical

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Boccherini's self-representation in his

lack of solid firsthand biographical evidence the divergence his performer and composer
anxieties over those
years
in
emphasis on to
Vienna,
possibilities of further Viennese influences
on Bocthe musical and cultural
virtuoso
evidence
of meetings between Boccherini and Jean-Pierre
especial success
with
Parisian
first court post,
Spanish musical and cultural
adeptness at finding a place within it
3. Gestures a n d Tableaux

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The importance visuality to period subsequent

declinethe effect of this decline on Boccherini's posthumous reputa"This does not deserve to be called
passage
that might have provoked such a
stasis
and
the paintings of Luis
Paret the predominance ofsoft
in
performance
lacuna as sensible
abandonment ofmelody infavor of
influence of
tableaux in period theater and
relations to
sensibiand the tableau
the reform body: Angiolini's classifications of motion
dance and
boleros, and fandangos
rini's complex relations to Spanish style "Instrumentalist, what do
you want of me?": problems in the relation ofperformance to text
4. Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue
A theatricalized reading of the Cello Sonata in C Major, G. 17
cyclicity in Boccherini's recycling
of themes and
recycling ofsubsidiary
influence of tactile experience on this level of
of
the word
sonatas within Boccherini oeuvre
philosophical problems posed by contra
sensithe
automatic and mechanical bodily training toward
paradox the actor

A Melancholy Anatomy
Reports of the
exhumation and autopsy of Boccherini's body
TB, the
melancholy
Young's Night Thoughts a melancholic reading of
the String Quartet in CMinor, op. 9, no. G.
cholic
Galen to
vibration as
a cause of or cure for
and
art: some
performance direction con
consumptions
anxieties
about nocturnal pollution and
Marquis de Sade
a melancholic reading of the String Quartet in G Minor, op. 8, no. 4,
G.
Grave hypochondria as an aspect musical hermeneutics

6. "It Is All Cloth of the Same Piece":

The Early String Quartets 207
An overview of Boccherini's work in this
periodization:
Boccherini's relatively unchanging
music: his penchant
for texture over
the idea of
problem
of "repetition" in ensemble
coco
to a
analyses of the String Quartet in
E Major, op.
no. 3, G.
peculiarities
first
analysis (relatively
relationships to analysis
the second analysis (experimental)

7. The Perfect Listener: A Recreation

Boccherini and Haydn's attempt at
comparison of the two
carnal musicology on composers
other than
Perfect Listener: re-creating
performance
Perfect Listener attends a performance of
Haydn's G-major keyboard sonata, Hob.
remarks

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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