Four Songs, Op. 14
Author: Roger Quilter
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 28
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Author: Roger Quilter
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 28
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Quilter
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mrs. H. H. A. Beach
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Downes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1351547232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski's work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, Christ, Narcissus or Orpheus, and the gospel he proclaims tells of the resurrection and freedom of the desiring subject. This book examines Szymanowski's exploration of the relationship between the authorial voice, mythology and eroticism within the context of the crisis of the modern subject in Western culture. Stephen Downes analyses mythological and erotic aspects of selected songs from the composer's early career, moving to an interpretation of the voice of the homoerotic lover, embodied as a mad muezzin, in terms of heroic notions of Orphic elegy. Discussing the encounters of King Roger with the voices of Narcissus, the Siren and Dionysus, Downes shows how the composer uses the unifying Christ/Eros figure as a means of indicating that the King might be transformed from anguished despot to loving expressive subject. The book ends with an examination of Szymanowski's desire to fuse Slavonic and Middle-Eastern mythological inspirations in an attempt to fulfil a utopian vision of a pan-European culture bound together by the spirit of Eros.
Author: Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780810840768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverview: This compilation of essays, lectures, and scholarly papers on Bartok studies from 1953 to the present includes insights obtained by the author over a half-century career as a Bartok specialist. Divided into three parts, chapters examine Bartok as a multifaceted music figure: composer, folklorist, pianist, and teacher. As composer, it includes program notes, an introduction to his principles of composition, and theoretic-analytical discussion of selected works, including Mikrokosmos. As folklorist, it examines the outcome of Bartok's fieldwork, methodology, and findings in East European, Arabic, and Turkist autochthonous folk music materials. Bartok's American years are also discussed. The narrative is supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references.