On the question of whether and how music can tell a story. With music by Debussy (prélude La sérénade interrompue), Liszt (Die Loreley), and Chopin (ballades).
00:00 Intro
00:36 Telling stories
02:49 Debussy: La sérénade interrompue
09:56 Programme music
11:16 Can music tell a story?
12:23 Liszt: Die Loreley
24:46 A narrative ‘tone’ in music
29:45 Chopin’s ballades
35:21 The musical narrator
Music fragments:
02:55 Claude Debussy, Prélude Livre I No. 9, La serenade interrompue (compl.)*
12:56 Franz Liszt, Die Loreley S. 532 (2nd version) (compl.)*
26:23 Robert Schumann, Fantasie op. 17 (fragment)*
27:23 Friedrich Silcher, Die Loreley (fragment)*
28:29 Franz Liszt, Die Loreley S. 531 (1st version) (fragment)*
30:22 Frédéric Chopin, Ballade No. 4 op. 52 (fragment)*
32:41 D.-F.-E. Auber, Fra Diavolo, Romance (Couplets). Mesplé, Soustrot, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. His Master’s Voice EX 157 27 0068 3
34:28 Frédéric Chopin, Ballade No. 3 op. 47 (fragment)*
See also:
L. Muns. Concert Song and Concert Speech around 1800. Music & Letters 98, no. 3 (2017): 365–93 .
———. Fiction, Truth, and Lies: The Nonassertion Theory of Fiction, Quotation, and Music as Fiction, 2021.
———. Who’s “I” in Music?: Unmasking the Musical Persona, 2021.
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