Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music: The Extra-Musical Subtext in Piano Works by Ravel, Debussy, and Messiaen

By Siglind Bruhn

In our visually-oriented society, music appears to stand apart from other arts. Yet just as a poet can write a poem whose focus is a painting, so musicians have composed scores based on poems,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945193955
• ISBN13: 9780945193951
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Pendragon Press
• Length: 425 Pages