Beyond Fingal's Cave : Ossian in the Musical Imagination /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Porter, James, 1937- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ossian, > active 3rd century.
Romanticism in music.
Music.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
romanticism (form of expression)
Romantisme (Musique)
Musique > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Music > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Coma?ala (1792)
  • Between Gluck and Berlioz : Ma?ehul'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" (1832) and an "unfinished" coda
  • The maiden bereft : "Colma" from Rust (1780) to Schubert (1816)
  • Sca?enes lyriques sans frontia?eres : Louis Tha?eodore Gouvy's Le dernier hymne d'Ossian (1858) and Lucien Hillemacher's Fingal (1880)
  • Ossian in symbolic conflict : Bernhard Hopffer's Darthula's Grabgesang (1878), Jules Bordier's Un ra?eve d'Ossian (1885), and Paul Umlauft's Agandecca (1884)
  • The musical stages of "Darthula" : from Thomas Linley the Younger (ca. 1776) to Arnold Schoenberg (1903) and Armin Knab (1906)
  • The cantata as drama : Joseph Jongen's Comala (1897), Jorgen 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 Irish rhapsody no. 2: 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 Dirge for Cuthullin (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 I: Title page and dedication of Harriet Wainewright's Coma?ala
  • Appendix 2: French and German texts of Louis Tha?eodore Gouvy's Le dernier hymne d'Ossian
  • Appendix 3: Texts of Erik Chisholm's Night song of the bards
  • Appendix 4: Provisional list of musical compositions based on the poems of Ossian.

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