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Dreams of Love - Playing the Romantic Pianist (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,263
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Dreams of Love - Playing the Romantic Pianist (Hardcover): Ivan Raykoff

Dreams of Love - Playing the Romantic Pianist (Hardcover)

Ivan Raykoff

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The Romantic pianist-the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music-has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literature, and films representing this performer's seductive allure. Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the "romantic" pianist as a cultural icon, focusing on the role of technology in producing and perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries. Sound recording and cinema have shaped the pianist's music and image since the early twentieth century, but these contemporary media technologies build upon practices established during the early nineteenth century: the influence of the piano keyboard on early telegraphs and typewriters, the invention of the solo recital alongside developments in photography, and the ways that piano design and the placement of the instrument on stage structure our viewing-listening perspectives. The concept of technology can be broadened to include the performance of gender and sexuality as further ways of making the pianist into an attractive cultural figure. The book's three sections deal with the touch, sights, and sounds of the Romantic pianist's playing as mediated through various forms of technology. Analyzing these persistent Liebestraume and exploring how they function can reveal their meaning for performers, audiences, and music lovers of the past and present too.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2014
First published: December 2013
Authors: Ivan Raykoff (Assistant Professor of Arts)
Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-989267-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Keyboard instruments
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Keyboard instruments
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
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LSN: 0-19-989267-9
Barcode: 9780199892679

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