Ohne Worte: Vocality and Instrumentality in 19th-Century Music - Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute

Publisher Marketing: What can music tell us without words? Can it depict scenes, narrate stories, elucidate beliefs? And can it be an instrument through which we access the inner lives not only of musicians from the past but of ourselves, today? In Ohne Worte five scholars and performers probe these and related questions to illuminate both the experience and performance of nineteenth-century music. Drawing on a rich range of sources, they reveal the musical thought and practice of canonical composers like Berlioz, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. Their work challenges us to reconsider our musical practices and the voices manifested in them, and it encourages the creation of an art that is both historical and transcendental. Contributors: Jean-Pierre Bartoli (Universite Paris Sorbonne), Hubert Mossburger (Staatlichen Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart), Jeanne Roudet (Universite Paris Sorbonne), Douglass Seaton (Florida State University School of Music), Edoardo Torbianelli (Hochschule der Kunste Bern)"

Contributor Bio:  Seaton, Douglass Douglass Seaton, Warren D. Allen Professor of Music at The Florida State University, holds the M. A., M. Phil., and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University. His principal research interests are in the music of Felix Mendelssohn, the Classic/Romantic period, and relationships of literature and music. Dr. Seaton's dissertation dealt with Mendelssohn's compositional processes. He is the author of "Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition" and "The Art Song: A Research and Information Guide", and editor of The Mendelssohn Companion; and he prepared the scholarly edition of Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" (Symphony No. 2) published by Carus-Verlag in Stuttgart. His articles have appeared in the "Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Musical Quarterly, The Music Review, College Music Symposium, Ars lyrica", and "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", among others. Professor Seaton is former President of The College Music Society and has also served on the Council of the American Musicological Society. Contributor Bio:  Brooks, William Bill Brooks is CEO of The Brooks Group, one of the world's premiere resources for sales and business leadership. He is a renowned corporate coach, consultant, speaker, and the author of fifteen books.