TY - BOOK AU - Tomasz Jasiński PY - 2015 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653027242 TI - The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque T2 - The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-02724-2 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046398 N2 - This book looks at the rich means of text interpretation in seventeenth and eighteenth century Polish music, a relatively unknown phenomenon. The works of old Polish masters exhibit many ingenious and beautiful solutions in musical oration, which will appeal to wide circles of lovers and experts of old music. One of the fundamental components of baroque musical poetics was music-rhetorical figures, which were the main means of shaping expression – the base and quintessence of musical rhetoric. It was by means of figures that composers built the musical interpretation of a verbal text, developing pictorial, emphatic, onomatopoeic, symbolic, and allegorical structures that rendered emotions and meanings carried by the verbal level of a musical piece. KW - Church music, Stile antico, Polychorality, Stile moderno LA - English ER -