How does a work of music stir the senses; creating feelings of joy; sadness; elation; or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition; performance; and appreciation of music; rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book; Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways.Through a range of musical examples; Rosen details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. This is not; however; a listeneriuml;iquest;frac12;s guide to any iuml;iquest;frac12;correctiuml;iquest;frac12; response to a particular piece. Instead; Rosen provides the tools and terms with which to appreciate this central aspect of musical aesthetics; and indeed explores the phenomenon of contradictory sentiments embodied in a single motif or melody. Taking examples from Chopin; Schumann; Wagner; and Liszt; he traces the use of radically changing intensities in the Romantic works of the nineteenth century and devotes an entire chapter to the key of C minor. He identifies a iuml;iquest;frac12;unity of sentimentiuml;iquest;frac12; in Baroque music and goes on to contrast it with the iuml;iquest;frac12;obsessive sentimentsiuml;iquest;frac12; of later composers including Puccini; Strauss; and Stravinsky. A profound and moving work; Music and Sentiment is an invitation to a greater appreciation of the crafts of composition and performance.
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