Narrative Music

Discusses similarities of approach to painting tone pictures and narrating stories with music among composers from Palestrina to Strauss. Shows that the same chords have been used by different composers to describe similiar moods or settings. Uses a variety of musical illustrations. (University of Rochester) Film.

More in Music as a Language Series

  1. An Essay In Sound 1955
  2. Music And Emotion 1955
  3. Music As Sound 1955
  4. Musical Words 1955
  5. Narrative Music 1955
  6. Six Basic Categories 1955
  7. The Alphabet In Black 1955
  8. The Alphabet In White 1955
  9. The Romantic Symphony 1955
  10. Music and Emotion 1957
  11. Music as Sound 1957
  12. Narrative Music 1957
  13. Narrative Music 1957
  14. Six Basic Categories 1957
  15. The Six Basic Categories 1957

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