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The muse as Eros : music, erotic fantasy and the male creativity in the romantic and modern imagination
- Title
- The muse as Eros : music, erotic fantasy and the male creativity in the romantic and modern imagination / Stephen Downes.
- Author
- Downes, Stephen C., 1962-
- Publication
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
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- Description
- xii, 300 p. : music; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-291) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The muse as immaculate beloved : Stendhal's 'crystallization' process and listening to Rossini and Beethoven -- Schumann, Chopin, the fan of Eros, and the beloved's kiss -- The muse as temptress and redemptress : Sibelius's early symphonic narratives -- Mahler's fifth and sixth symphonies : idyllic fantasies, the sublime, formal mastery, and processes of mourning and reparation -- 'She dies' : trauma and erotic elegy in Bartók's pre-First World War music -- Names, chords, and the 'pale princess' in Debussy's musical language of love -- Poulenc's erotics of humour, melancholy, abjection, and redemption -- Names, chords and Lulu's portrait as muse -- Fetishistic 'inventions on a chord' : Szymanowski, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Weill, and Poulenc.
- Call Number
- JME 06-1150
- ISBN
- 0754635708 (alk. paper)
- 9780754635703 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005014113
- OCLC
- 60393907
- Author
- Downes, Stephen C., 1962-
- Title
- The muse as Eros : music, erotic fantasy and the male creativity in the romantic and modern imagination / Stephen Downes.
- Imprint
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-291) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780754635703 (alk. paper)
- Research Call Number
- JME 06-1150