When machines play Chopin : musical spirit and automation in nineteenth-century German literature /

WhenMachines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display machine-l...

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Main Author: Hirt, Katherine Maree
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2010
Series:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 8.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central