Ohne Worte : vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music

Ohne Worte : vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music /

What can music tell us--without words? Can it depict scenes, narrate stories, elucidate beliefs? And can it be an instrument through which we access the inner lives not only of musicians from the past but of ourselves, today? In Ohne Worte five scholars and performers probe these and related questio...

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Main Authors: Mossburger, Hubert (Author), Seaton, Douglass (Author), Roudet, Jeanne (Author), Torbianelli, Edoardo, 1970- (Author)
Other Authors: Brooks, William (Professor of music) (Editor), Bartoli, Jean-Pierre
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2014
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015
Series:Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute ; 12.
Subjects:
Composers > Europe.
Instrumental music > Europe > 19th century > History and criticism.
Vocal music > Europe > 19th century > History and criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Playing with images : character and emotion in the Age of Romanticism / Edoardo Torbianelli
  • "Inner voices" and "deep combinations" : Robert Schumann's approach to romantic polyphony / Hubert Mossburger
  • Frederic Chopin, Clara Schuman, and the singing piano school / Jeanne Roudet
  • Vocal patterns in the themes of Berlioz's instrumental music / Jean-Pierre Bartoli
  • Plot and narrative in Mendelssohn's chamber music for strings and piano / Douglass Seaton
  • Robert Schumann's poetic paraphrases : analytical implications / personalia / Hubert Mossburger.

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