"Stephen E. Bacher" wrote:

>Jonathan Knapp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>The technique is called "text painting." Other examples are readily found
>>in Haydn's "Creation."
>
>Many instances in Britten as well; Spring Symphony has quite a few.

One need only think about the Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings.  There
are also numerous places in Berg's Wozzeck.  I don't have a score, but
one I remember concerns a description of rings of toadstools on the forest
floor, and the notes in the score at that point describe a kind of circular
pattern.

BTW in my earlier post I mistakenly said the German term for doctrine of
Affections was Affektionslehre.  I think it should be Affektslehre.

Chris Bonds