Abstract

CAZNOK, Yara Borges. Writing and hearing music. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2009, vol.32, n.48, pp. 74-81. ISSN 0101-3106.

In Occidental music, the indication of frequencies - one of the most important musical elements - on the written page was resolved by the use of space. This conception of musical writing created a manner of hearing in which we perceive not only sounds, but movements and gestures which correspond to images and figures, which are confirmed by what we see on the score. Augenmusik and Word-Painting are used as models to demonstrate the relationship between vision and hearing, using the score as a mediator. Musical excerpts from the Baroque period - especially J. S. Bach - are analyzed in this light.

Keywords : Writing of music and musical perception; Rhetorical figures and musical images; Sight and hearing.

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