Ohne Worte : vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music / Edoardo Torbianelli [and four others] ; edited by William Brooks.

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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 this book five scholars and performers probe these and related questi...

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Uniform Title:Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute ; #12.
Main Authors: Torbianelli, Edoardo, 1970- (Author)
Mossburger, Hubert (Author)
Seaton, Douglass (Author)
Roudet, Jeanne (Author)
Other Authors: Brooks, William, 1943- (Editor)
Bartoli, Jean-Pierre
Language:English
Published: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2014.
Series:Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute ; #12.
Subjects:
Vocal music > Europe > 19th century > History and criticism.
Instrumental music > Europe > 19th century > History and criticism.
Composers > Europe.
Physical Description:227 pages : music ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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
  • Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schuman [sic], 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 / Hubert Moßburger.