The Composer's Voice

absolute music accompaniment acter actor actual analogy analysis Art of Fugue assume audience ballad Beethoven Berlioz cantus firmus character chorale complete musical persona complete persona composer composer's voice composition concept concerto conscious dance dialogue Die schöne Müllerin dramatic Elliott Carter English horn Erlkönig Ernest Bloch example experience Fantastic Symphony functional song hear heard Hector Berlioz human voice identification imagine impersonation implicit agent implied individual instrumental music instrumental persona interpretation kind listener means melodic line melody ment motif movement musical gestures musician narrative narrator natural song oboe opera orchestra participation performance pianist piano play player poem point of view portrayed present program music purely reading realized ritual Roger Sessions role Schubert sense simulated singer singing single solo soloist sona sonata sound speaks specific stanza strophic forms subconscious suggests theme tion unitary agent utterance verbal violin virtual agent virtual persona vocal line vocal persona vocal protagonist