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Musical ekphrasis: composers responding to poetry and painting

By Siglind Bruhn

Book information

Publisher
Pendragon Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9781576470367
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
179 MB (187780303 bytes)
Pages
688\692
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 18:00:06

Description

With increasing frequency, composers of instrumental music claim to be specifically inspired by a poem or painting, a drama or sculpture, transforming the essence of this art work's features and message into their own medium, the musical language. How does the knowledge of such a transformation from one medium into the other inform our understanding of the musical work? In this round-breaking study, Siglind Bruhn makes a case for a musical genre hitherto hidden under the term program music. She defines her subject matter in relation to the term, ekphrasis, which is used by literary scholars for poems responding to works of visual art. Bruhn develops a clear methodology and a precise set of criteria, which she employs to situate musical ekphrasis within the aesthetics discourse.

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