Music that speaks: Instrumental recitative from Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

Lodewijk Muns

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Music that speaks: Instrumental recitative

29 minutes Posted Oct 23, 2024 at 12:00 am.

Intro

Beethoven: Arioso dolente

Music representing music representing speech

Musical Prose

J.S. Bach: Chromatische Fantasie

C.P.E. Bach: The free fantasia

‘Speaking’ music

Melancholy and the musical ‘I’

Beethoven, Sonata op. 110 in A-flat

J.S. Bach, Chromatische Fantasie BWV 903

Vivaldi-Bach, Adagio from Concerto in C BWV 594

C.P.E. Bach, Fantasie in c from Sonata Wq 63 No. 6

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To what extent can instrumental music ‘speak’? And what does it tell us? Examples discussed include Beethoven's Sonata op. 110, works by Emanuel Bach and (again) J.S. Bach's Chromatic Fantasia. Complete pieces can be heard in the recital of episode 15.

Music fragments:

Lodewijk Muns, piano.

For references see:

Lodewijk Muns, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, and the Art of Mixed Feelings (2008)

https://www.academia.edu/7561949/C_P_E_Bach_Haydn_and_the_Art_of_Mixed_Feelings

idem, Fiction, Truth, and Lies: The Nonassertion Theory of Fiction, Quotation, and Music as Fiction (2021).

https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:28479/

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