Ohne Worte: Vocality and Instrumentality in 19th-Century Music

by Douglass Seaton, Edoardo Torbianelli, Hubert Mossburger, et al.

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 nineteenth-century music.Drawing on a rich range of sources, they reveal the musical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9058679985
• ISBN13: 9789058679987
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher