Listening Through

Twenty-Seven Concertos for Piano

von Robert Kelly

148 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

¿People have been writing about music for centuries, finding melodies for words, and words for melodies, or writing about what the music makes them feel. I yearned for something different -- I wanted to know what would happen if I listened through the music, that is, approach the music with an empty mind and let it start talking in me. Practically speaking, I began writing the instant the music began and stopped abruptly when the music ended. That suggested to me the movements within a concerto or symphony, so I turned to the concertos of Mozart for piano. My own musical taste draws me to late romanticism - Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss - and I didn't want my own taste to get in the way. So I turned to the brilliant complexity and rich emotional variegation of Mozart. So one January I kept at it...

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie
• ISBN: 9781940625799
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2025
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Contra Mundum Press