Becoming Bach, Blaspheming Bach: Kinesthetic Knowledge and Embodied Music Theory in Ysaÿe’s “Obsession” for Solo Violin
This essay explores kinesthetic musical knowledge: what can it tell us about the music, the performer, or the composer? In discussing my own experience of performing “Obsession,” the first movement of violinist-composer Eugène Ysaÿe’s obsession. In the course of practicing and performing “Obsession,...
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Columbia University Libraries
2008-09-01
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| Series: | Current Musicology |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5142 |