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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis night : the heathen muse in European culture, 1700-1850 /

'Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night' addresses tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that center...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, John Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Colección:Eastman studies in music ; v. 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The cultural and religious prehistories
  • Tolerance, translation, and acceptance : Goethe's and Mendelssohn's voices in European cultural discourse to ca. 1850
  • Reality and illusion, past and present : Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht
  • The composition, revision, and publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht
  • The sources, structure, and narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht settings
  • At the crossroads of identity : critical and artistic responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht treatments
  • Performing identity and alterity : Die erste Walpurgisnacht then and now.