Porter Beyond Fingal's Cave

Ossian in the Musical Imagination
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78744-462-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 158, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note to the Reader
Battling Critics, Engaging Composers: Ossian's Spell
On Macpherson's Native Heath: Primary Sources
A Culture without Writing, Settings without A Score, Haydn without Copyright, and Two Oscars on Stage
"A Musical Piece": Harriet Wainewright's Opera, Comàla (1792)
Between Gluck and Berlioz: Méhul's Uthal (1806)
Fingallo e Comala (1805) and Ardano e Dartula (1825): The Ossianic Operas of Stefano Pavesi
From Venice to Lisbon and St. Petersburg: Calto, Clato, Aganadeca, Gaulo ed Oitona and Two Fingals
Beethoven's Ossianic Manner, or, Where Scholars Fear to Tread
Excursus: Mendelssohn Waives the Rules: "Overture to the Isles of Fingal" and an "Unfinished" Coda
The Maiden Bereft: "Colma" from Rust (1780) to Schubert (1816)
Scènes lyriques sans frontières: Louis Théodore Gouvy's Le dernier Hymne d'Ossian (1858) and Lucien Hillemacher's Fingal (1880)
Ossian in Symbolic Conflict: Bernhard Hopffer's Darthula's Grabesgesang (1878), Jules Bordier's Un rêve d'Ossian (1885), and Paul Umlauft's Agandecca (1890)
The Musical Stages of "Darthula": From Thomas Linley Jr (ca.1775) to Arnold Schoenberg (1903) and Armin Knab (1906)
Cantatas as Drama: Joseph Jongen's Comala (1897), Jørgen Malling's Kyvala (1902) and Liza Lehmann's Leaves from Ossian (1909)
Symphonic Poem and Orchestral Fantasy: Alexandre Levy's Comala (1890), and Charles Villiers Stanford's Lament for the Son of Ossian (1903)
Neo-Romanticism in Britain and America: John Laurence Seymour's "Shilric's Song" (from Six Ossianic Odes), and Cedric Thorpe Davie's cantata, Dirge for Cuchullin (both 1936)
Modernity, Modernism and Ossian: Erik Chisholm's Night Song of the Bards (1944-51), James MacMillan's The Death of Oscar (2013), and Jean Guillou's Ballade Ossianique No. 2: Les Chants de Selma (1971, rev. 2005)
Afterword: The "Half-Viewless Harp" - Secondary Resonances of Ossian
Appendix 1:Title Page and Dedication of Harriet Wainewright's Comàla
Appendix 2: French and German Texts of Gouvy's Le dernier Hymne d'Ossian
Appendix 3: Texts for Erik Chisholm's Night Song of the Bards
Appendix 4: Provisional List of Musical Compositions Based on the Poems of Ossian
Notes
Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Porter James:
JAMES PORTER is Professor Emeritus of Music at UCLA and an Honorary Professor of the University of Aberdeen.