Prometheus in music
Subtitle: representations of the myth in the romantic era
By: Paul A. Bertagnolli.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780754654681
Subjects: Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Prometheus (Greek deity) -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-356) and index.
Table of contents: value: Promethean legacies: the myth in literature and music prior to the romantic era; value: Gesture and convention in Beethoven's Ballet d'action; value: Three settings of Goethe's Transgressive ode; value: Toward a philosophy of history: Liszt's Prometheus music; value: The French Prometheus; value: Atheism, Wagnerism, and eroticism in Parry's Scenes from Shelley's Prometheus unbound; value: Conservatism assimilates the Prometheus myth : concert overtures by Bargiel and Goldmark.