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Dante's Journey to Polyphony /

"Although Dante's Commedia has inspired a number of musical compositions, such as Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Francesca Da Rimini and Rachmaninov's opera by the same name, and various syncretic studies on these works, until now there has not been a study that addresses the actua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ciabattoni, Francesco
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2010
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Music to Dante's ears : exposure to polyphony
  • Inferno's unholy racket
  • Purgatorio : musical liturgy as Pharmakon
  • Paradiso : the attuning of the sky
  • The music of the spheres.