When Machines Play Chopin : : Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature / / Katherine Hirt.
When Machines 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-...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Art and Architecture 2000-2014 (EN) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Chapter One Towards Autonomy: Imitation and Expression at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Two E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Aesthetics of Music and Musical Machines in “The Automata,” “The Sandman” and Music Reviews -- Chapter Three Schopenhauer and Hanslick: Toward a Definition of Instrumental Music as an Autonomous Art -- Chapter Four Virtuosity and the Experience of Listening in Heinrich Heine’s Music Criticism and “Florentine Nights” -- Chapter Five Rilke’s Phonograph: the “Talking Machine” and Imagined Sound -- Backmatter |
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Summary: | When Machines 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-like technical perfection at their instruments. When Machines Play Chopin looks at this paradox between thinking about and practicing music to show what three literary works say about automation and the sublime in art. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110232400 9783110621129 9783110238570 9783110637854 9783110233544 9783110233551 9783110233568 9783110233605 |
ISSN: | 1861-8030 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110232400 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Katherine Hirt. |