“…There is a great similarity between the notion of picture theory as applied here and the rhetorical device of ekphrasis (description), but they differ subtly in their intended goals. Siglind Bruhn defines musical ekphrasis as ‘the representation in one medium of a text created in another medium’ (Bruhn 2000, p. 8) and explains how the construction of musical meaning (i.e. the interaction of musical and non‐musical sign systems) can be achieved through the use of two categories: depiction and reference: I wish to argue that what and how music communicates about any extra‐musical stimulus does indeed fall into the two categories that can be seen as analogous with those pertinent in the context of painting and poetry: depiction and reference.…”
Section: The Implications Of Bun Nomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Correspondingly, reference by musical means […] will be understood as relying on cultural and historical conventions. (Bruhn 2000, p. 10; emphasis in original)…”
Cornelius Cardew's Camouflage and BUN NO. 2 14th Feb 65 [A]sked what all those squiggles in Treatise mean, I might reasonably answer: a) that it is very complicated to explain, and explanations are of dubious value, and b) that in any case it is secret. -Cornelius Cardew, Treatise Handbook, p. vii 112 Music Analysis, 42/i (2023)
“…There is a great similarity between the notion of picture theory as applied here and the rhetorical device of ekphrasis (description), but they differ subtly in their intended goals. Siglind Bruhn defines musical ekphrasis as ‘the representation in one medium of a text created in another medium’ (Bruhn 2000, p. 8) and explains how the construction of musical meaning (i.e. the interaction of musical and non‐musical sign systems) can be achieved through the use of two categories: depiction and reference: I wish to argue that what and how music communicates about any extra‐musical stimulus does indeed fall into the two categories that can be seen as analogous with those pertinent in the context of painting and poetry: depiction and reference.…”
Section: The Implications Of Bun Nomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Correspondingly, reference by musical means […] will be understood as relying on cultural and historical conventions. (Bruhn 2000, p. 10; emphasis in original)…”
Cornelius Cardew's Camouflage and BUN NO. 2 14th Feb 65 [A]sked what all those squiggles in Treatise mean, I might reasonably answer: a) that it is very complicated to explain, and explanations are of dubious value, and b) that in any case it is secret. -Cornelius Cardew, Treatise Handbook, p. vii 112 Music Analysis, 42/i (2023)
“…Regarding ekphrastic encounters in the field of musicology, Siglind Bruhn [37] has explored synaesthesia in the intersections between music, words, and images. Bruhn also explains that very often, composers of instrumental music are inspired by other artworks and try to convey their essence, features and message in their own medium of music.…”
This chapter traces an overview of the evolution of the research on Intermedial Studies in the last two decades. It expands the research presented in the InTech volume Comparative Literature. Interdisciplinary Considerations, in a chapter entitled ‘Intermedial Comparative Literature: from the Sister-Arts Debate to the twentieth century Avant-gardes’. The literature review offers a description of the major interdisciplinary contributions that have shaped the field of Intermedial Studies, with areas such as media and communication studies, art history, and the visual arts, including theater, dance and performance, sequential art (comics, graphic novels), photography, radio, film studies, electronic literature, videogames and Artificial Intelligence.
“…Among the many academics who define ekphrasis mainly in terms of media representation, Siglind Bruhn is the person who has most radically expanded the modern notion: from a poem representing a painting to "a representation in one medium of a text composed in another medium", indicating that both source and target medium may be of any type as long as they are not the same type. 25 In principle, then, Bruhn's notion of ekphrasis covers the entire field of (complex) media representation as I have circumscribed it, although we conceptualize this field in dissimilar ways.…”
Section: Media Representation: Ekphrasismentioning
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