Perspectives on Music in German Fiction Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl |
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Author:
| McCort, Dennis |
Series title: | Germanic Studies in America |
ISBN: | 978-3-261-00853-4 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1973 |
Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Leather / fine binding |
List Price: | USD $28.60 |
Book Description:
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This book is a study of music as theme and musician-characters in German fiction from the baroque to the late nineteenth century, concentrating on the novellas of the Munich professor, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-97). It also analyses Riehl's adaptation of such musical forms and techniques as sonata-allegro movement, thematic counterpoint and syncopation to the structuring of his fiction. Riehl's musico-literary creations are set against the background of his musicological and...
More DescriptionThis book is a study of music as theme and musician-characters in German fiction from the baroque to the late nineteenth century, concentrating on the novellas of the Munich professor, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-97). It also analyses Riehl's adaptation of such musical forms and techniques as sonata-allegro movement, thematic counterpoint and syncopation to the structuring of his fiction. Riehl's musico-literary creations are set against the background of his musicological and cultural-historical theories.