Beyond the Bony Labyrinth
Beyond the Bony Labyrinth
Lodewijk Muns
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Music as fiction
39 minutes Posted Dec 22, 2025 at 9:43 am.
Intro
Telling stories
Debussy: La sérénade interrompue
Programme music
Can music tell a story?
Liszt: Die Loreley
A narrative ‘tone’ in music
Chopin’s ballades
The musical narrator
Claude Debussy, Prélude Livre I No. 9, La serenade interrompue (compl.)*
Franz Liszt, Die Loreley S. 532 (2nd version) (compl.)*
Robert Schumann, Fantasie op. 17 (fragment)*
Friedrich Silcher, Die Loreley (fragment)*
Franz Liszt, Die Loreley S. 531 (1st version) (fragment)*
Frédéric Chopin, Ballade No. 4 op. 52 (fragment)*
D.-F.-E. Auber, Fra Diavolo, Romance (Couplets). Mesplé, Soustrot, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. His Master's Voice EX 157 27 0068 3
Frédéric Chopin, Ballade No. 3 op. 47 (fragment)*
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On the question of whether and how music can tell a story. With music by Debussy (prélude La sérénade interrompue), Liszt (Die Loreley), and Chopin (ballades).
Music fragments:
See also:
L. Muns. Concert Song and Concert Speech around 1800. Music & Letters 98, no. 3 (2017): 365–93 . https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcx082
———. Fiction, Truth, and Lies: The Nonassertion Theory of Fiction, Quotation, and Music as Fiction, 2021. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:28479/
———. Who’s “I” in Music?: Unmasking the Musical Persona, 2021. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:43711/
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