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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Table of Contents:
- 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