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Ohne Worte: Vocality and Instrumentality in 19th-Century Music (Geschriften van het Orpheus Instituut/Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute, 12) - Softcover

 
9789058679987: Ohne Worte: Vocality and Instrumentality in 19th-Century Music (Geschriften van het Orpheus Instituut/Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute, 12)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9058679985 ISBN 13: 9789058679987
Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The musical thought and practice of canonical composers. 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 questions to illuminate both the experience and performance of nineteenthcentury music. Drawing on a rich range of sources, they reveal the musical thought and practice of canonical composers like Berlioz, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. Their work challenges us to reconsider our musical practices and the voices manifested in them, and it encourages the creation of an art that is both historical and transcendental.

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About the Author

William Brooks is professor of music at the University of York, emeritus professor at the University of Illinois, scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library, and senior research fellow at the Orpheus Institute.

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The musical thought and practice of canonical composers. 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 questions to illuminate both the experience and performance of nineteenthcentury music. Drawing on a rich range of sources, they reveal the musical thought and practice of canonical composers like Berlioz, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. Their work challenges us to reconsider our musical practices and the voices manifested in them, and it encourages the creation of an art that is both historical and transcendental.

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Publisher
Leuven University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9058679985
ISBN 13 
9789058679987
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
100
Editor
Brooks William