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1 online resource |
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Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
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Cover; The Pathetick Musician; Copyright; Contents; Foreword:€Aus der Tiefe (Geoffrey Burgess); Preface:€Pipe Dreams (Bruce Haynes); Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; PART one Bach and the Rhetorical Heritage; Introduction:€The Eloquent Musician (BH); The Truth in Eloquence; Rhetorical Music; The Pathetick Musician; Ut pictura poesis; The Officers of Rhetoric; Style Coaches; Further Reading; 1. In the Realm of the Passions (BH); Humanism and the Rhetorical Ethos; Seconda prattica; The Romantic Revolution; Of Æsthetics and Beauty; Autonomous Music:€"Art for Art's Sake." |
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Personally Expressing Passions or Passionately Expressing Persons?Afterword by Geoffrey Burgess; Further Reading; 2. The Principles of Eloquence:€The Artist's Toolbox (GB); The Offices of Rhetoric; Structuring Rhetoric; The Sense of Music; Figures of Speech, Figures of Song; Hypotyposis or Painting; Pathopoia or Arousing Passions; Topics:€Intertextual Allusion; Ethopoeïa: Musical Characterization; Key and Character; On the Possibility of a Figurenlehre; Further Reading; 3. Bach's Expressive Universe (GB); Imitation:€Portraying and Evoking the World; "Clear running water":€Schweitzer's Legacy |
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Figuring Bach's WorldBach the Poet, Bach the Painter; Onomatopoeia; Landscape Painting and "Paintings of Life"; Further Reading; 4. Bach's Inner World (GB); General and Particular Expression; Reading Bach's Passions; Fear and Tremolo; Antithesis:€At Odds with Oneself; Polyphonies of Passions:€Passions in Polyphony; Laughing at Death:€The Proximity of Opposites; Further Reading; PART two Performing Eloquence; 5. Enhancing Eloquence in Performance (Elocutio) (GB); The "Intentional Fallacy" Fallacy:€Whose Intention?; Elocutio:€The Essence of Performance Practice; "Humouring" the Score |
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Tempo and AffectLight and Shadow; Further Reading; 6. Figures:€Spinning Straw into Gold (GB); Public Speaking, Public Musicking; Declamation as Figurative Speech; Figures as Ornamental Glosses; Essential Graces; Graces as Glosses; The Salt of Music, the Spice of Dissonance; Graces as Passionate Expression; Structuring Ornaments:€Passaggi and Paraphrase; Ornaments in History; Further Reading; 7. The Expressive Gesture (GB); Audible Architecture; Articulating the Musical Gesture; The Breath of Life; Agogics; The Agogic Accent (prolonged beat); The Agogic Pickup; The Agogic Placement |
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The HesitationFinding the Poetry in the Notes; Pause to Reflect; Gesture and Character; Gesturing toward the Phrase; Further Reading; 8. Kairos: Expressive Timing (GB); Chronos and Kairos: Two Kinds of Time; The Metronome and the Modern Tendency toward Chronos; The Beat, or Pulse in Baroque Music; "The true motion of the Bass"; Tempo Fluctuation; Borrowed Time; Kairos:€Isolating Musical Events; Timing in Dance Music; Further Reading; 9. To Kindle the Heart:€Engagement in Performance (GB); The Sovereign Audience; Authentic Ears; Music in the Body; The Meaning of Vortrag |
| Summary |
What is rhetorical music? In 'The Pathetick Musician', Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Music -- 17th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music -- 18th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Musik
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Affektivität
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Rhetorik
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Musique -- 17e siècle -- Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique.
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Musique -- 18e siècle -- Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Burgess, Geoffrey (Oboist), author.
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| ISBN |
9780199373758 |
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0199373752 |
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9780199373772 |
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0199373779 |
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