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When machines play Chopin : musical spirit and automation in nineteenth-century German literature /

WhenMachines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display machine-l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirt, Katherine Maree
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2010.
Colección:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Towards autonomy : imitation and expression at the turn of the nineteenth century
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann's aesthetics of music and musical machines in "The Automata," "The Sandman" and music reviews
  • Schopenhauer and Hanslick : toward a definition of instrumental music as an autonomous art
  • Virtuosity and the experience of listening in Heinrich Heine's music criticism and "Florentine nights"
  • Rilke's phonograph : the "talking machine" and imagined sound.