When Machines Play Chopin
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Katherine Hirt, Seattle, USA.
Reviews
"Densely written and diligently researched, When Machines Play Chopin interweaves literary history, aesthetics, performance history, and the history of technology in new and unexpected ways. [...] By focusing on the literary life of music machines, Hirt presents a compelling narrative on music aesthetics and the mechanical from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, one with important consequences for a contemporary discussion of the place of the human vis-à-vis technologies of sound."
Mary Helen Dupree in: Monatshefte 104/1 2012
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Chapter One Towards Autonomy: Imitation and Expression at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
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Chapter Two E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Aesthetics of Music and Musical Machines in “The Automata,” “The Sandman” and Music Reviews
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Chapter Three Schopenhauer and Hanslick: Toward a Definition of Instrumental Music as an Autonomous Art
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Chapter Four Virtuosity and the Experience of Listening in Heinrich Heine’s Music Criticism and “Florentine Nights”
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Chapter Five Rilke’s Phonograph: the “Talking Machine” and Imagined Sound
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Backmatter
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