Musical Ekphrasis: Literary Vignettes in response to Contemporary Classical Music – Paperback-Fast Shipping

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Kim Hegerberg (Author)

I grew up playing violin in various run of the mill classical community orchestras, Later in life, I began studying the ancient Greek concept of ekphrasis – which in a nutshell is how art inspires literature and vice versa. I decided to apply the concept to contemporary classical music. With all of its cacophonical, arrhythmic weirdness – which practically all aside from snotty academics deem utterly unintelligible, I decided to dissect and illuminate its multifarious magic utilizing a literary tool born in the ancient world – ekphrasis. The range of possibilities seem as endless as one’s imagination, well beyond the conventional boundaries of beauty. Listening to even a single piece a second time opens an entirely different narrative. An organic, raw, engaging, reflective, predictive, dire darkness and blinding illumination – all are potential crops of unclassified seeds sown in irregularly lined fields.

Number of Pages: 104Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 INPublication Date: August 07, 2021