Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting. (Diverse Topics).

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Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting. By Siglind Bruhn. (Interplay, 2.) Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2000. [xxi, 667 p. ISBN 1-57642-036-9. $46.]

Siglind Bruhn's subject inhabits a conceptual universe that is at the present moment almost completely self-referential. A survey of the current literature on musical ekphrasis and of recent conferences where it was the subject of special sessions reveals that this topic has been introduced into the academic discourse chiefly by virtue of Bruhn's sustained effort. Although ekphrasis has existed as an ...

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