When machines play Chopin [[electronic resource] ] : musical spirit and automation in nineteenth-century German literature / / Katherine Hirt

• Autore: Hirt Katherine Maree
• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Disciplina: 830.9/3578
• Soggetto topico: German literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Musical instruments in literature; Music in literature; Music and literature - Germany - History - 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: When machines play Chopin
• ISBN: 1-282-67331-9; 9786612673313; 3-11-023240-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459244603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; ; 8.