Virtuosity as rhetoric: Agency and transformation in paganini's mastery of the violin

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 341-357

  Palmer, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Musical performance; Paganini; Romanticism; Virtuosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345829729     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335639809384223     Document Type: Article

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