James Porter

Beyond Fingal's Cave (eBook, PDF)

Ossian in the Musical Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787444621
• Artikelnr.: 56926676

Autorenporträt

JAMES PORTER is Professor Emeritus of Music at UCLA and an Honorary Professor of the University of Aberdeen.

Inhaltsangabe

Note to the Reader 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, Comàla (1792) Between Gluck
and Berlioz: Méhul'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"
and an "Unfinished" Coda The Maiden Bereft: "Colma" from Rust (1780) to
Schubert (1816) Scènes lyriques sans frontières: Louis Théodore Gouvy's Le
dernier Hymne d'Ossian (1858) and Lucien Hillemacher's Fingal (1880) Ossian
in Symbolic Conflict: Bernhard Hopffer's Darthula's Grabesgesang (1878),
Jules Bordier's Un rêve d'Ossian (1885), and Paul Umlauft's Agandecca
(1890) The Musical Stages of "Darthula": From Thomas Linley Jr (ca.1775) to
Arnold Schoenberg (1903) and Armin Knab (1906) Cantatas as Drama: Joseph
Jongen's Comala (1897), Jørgen 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 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 cantata, Dirge for Cuchullin (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 1:Title Page
and Dedication of Harriet Wainewright's Comàla Appendix 2: French and
German Texts of Gouvy's Le dernier Hymne d'Ossian Appendix 3: Texts for
Erik Chisholm's Night Song of the Bards Appendix 4: Provisional List of
Musical Compositions Based on the Poems of Ossian Notes Selected
Bibliography