Author: James Macpherson
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →James McPherson's Works of Ossian appeared in 1792, claiming to be a translation from a Celtic original. Although it was immediately denounced as a forgery, its influence was profound. For the Romantics, the idea of a primitive, bardic utterance had particular relevance. This edition is a facsimile
Author: James Porter
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1580469450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.
Author: P. Hately Waddell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-08
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 3385257042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Peter Hately WADDELL (the Elder.)
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13:
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