Re: word painting "dictionaries"

"Sybrand Bakker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:36:36 -0500, Roland Hutchinson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >{USER_FIRSTNAME} {USER_LASTNAME} wrote:
> >
> >> My questions concerns word painting.
> >>
> >> Are there any available books, references, web sites, etc. that give
> >> musical
> >> notations that have been associated with action, feelings, events,
> >> etc.?  If so, what are they and where can they be located?
> >
> >Here's a couple of books that are highly relevant to the question asked
> >in the second paragraph above (without regard to whether that question
> >concerns "word painting" as such).  Both are rather decidedly
> >post-Renaissance in scope, if that matters:
> >
> >Bartel, Dietrich. Handbuch der musikalischen Figurenlehre (Laaber 1985).
> >
> >Ratner, Leonard. Classic Music: Expression, Form and Style (Schirmer
> >Books, 1980).
>
>
> The first book has been translated into English and been published by
> Nebraska University Press and was previously available from Amazon.com
>
> Regards,
>
> Sybrand Bakker
>

Thanks for all the information,
  John