Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire

by Susan Bernstein

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A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the nineteenth century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing upon an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Reading Romantic reactions to music together with linguistic and economic conflicts brought about by the rise of journalism, the book pursues the tension around performativity that both connects and separates music and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804735050

ISBN13:9780804735056

Release Date:December 1998

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.81 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Education & Reference History & Criticism Music Performing Arts

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