Ohne Worte
Description
Subtitle: Vocality and Instrumentality in 19th-Century Musics
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 nineteenth-century 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.
Contributors
Jean-Pierre Bartoli (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Hubert Moßburger
(Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst
Stuttgart), Jeanne Roudet (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Douglass
Seaton (Florida State University School of Music), Edoardo
Torbianelli (Hochschule der Künste Bern)