Intermedial and Multimodal Studies Seminar 6/7 2017
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"Music Responding to Poetry and Painting." Abstract: In this tripartite talk, I begin by recalling how the concept of 'ekphrasis' evolved so that musicians are now able to speak of 'musical ekphrasis'. On this basis, I will discuss two examples of musical ekphrasis in some depth: one of the earliest cases of a musically transmedialized poem, the first of the three pieces in the French composer Maurice Ravel's piano cycle Gaspard de la nuit, and a more recent case of music based on works of fine arts in the contemporary Polish composer Marta Ptaszyńska's Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra, a composition in three movements based on three surrealist paintings.
