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Music and Sentiment (Paperback)
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Music and Sentiment (Paperback)
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Loot Price R419
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Acclaimed pianist and writer Charles Rosen explores music’s
profound ability to convey emotion through sound How does a work of
music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation,
or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the
composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have
these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and
penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century
as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg
have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in
mystifyingly beautiful ways. Through a range of musical examples,
Rosen details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to
represent or convey sentiment. This is not, however, a listener’s
guide to any “correct” response to a particular piece. Instead,
Rosen provides the tools and terms with which to appreciate this
central aspect of musical aesthetics, and indeed explores the
phenomenon of contradictory sentiments embodied in a single motif
or melody. Taking examples from Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, and
Liszt, he traces the use of radically changing intensities in the
Romantic works of the nineteenth century and devotes an entire
chapter to the key of C minor. He identifies a “unity of
sentiment” in Baroque music and goes on to contrast it with the
“obsessive sentiments” of later composers including Puccini,
Strauss, and Stravinsky. A profound and moving work, Music and
Sentiment is an invitation to a greater appreciation of the crafts
of composition and performance.
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