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When Machines Play Chopin : Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature / Katherine Hirt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; 8Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110232394
  • 9783110232400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 830.9/3578 22
LOC classification:
  • PT345 .H55 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Dissertation note: Dissertation University of Washington 2008. 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.

Dissertation University of Washington 2008.

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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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