Foreshadowing Visual Narrative: Instrumental Music as a Source of Mental Images

Abstract

Instrumental music is a temporal art which can convey non-visual mental images and tell stories, representing the underlying emotional details. This has been a common practice since the Renaissance and Baroque periods, carried out by means of musical topoi and musical descriptivism. This study analyses some instrumental pieces by composers living between the 18th and the 20th century.

Presenters

Rossella Marisi
University FORCOM

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Presentation Type

Online Poster

Theme

The Form of the Image

KEYWORDS

Instrumental music, Mental image, Emotions, Renaissance, Baroque, Musical topoi, Descriptivism

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