Musical receptions of Greek antiquity
Subtitle: from the romantic era to modernism
By: edited by Katerina Levidou, Katy Romanou and George Vlastos
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781443888288
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Music; Classical influences; History and criticism; Greek influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing ancestry, imagining antiquity : classical Greece in Russian music / Marina Frolova-Walker; title: From mythology to social politics : Goethe's Proserpina with music by Carl Eberwein / Lorraine Byrne Bodley; title: On common ground? : Greek antiquity and twentieth-century Greek music / Kostas Chardas; title: Nikolay Tcherepnin's Narcisse and the aesthetic promise of self-presence / Paulo F. de Castro; title: Socrate in context : Satie's 'Humble homage' to the past / George Vlastos; title: What makes a hero? : Szymanowski, Enescu and the classical plot / Jim Samson; title: German gymnasium, and germinal Greek : Heinrich Bellermann's stage music for three tragedies by Sophocles / Gesine Schröder; title: Nostos through the West and Nostos through the East : readings of ancient Greek music in early twentieth-century Constantinople and Athens / Katy Romanou; title: The Odysseus myth revisited : exile and homecoming in the life and music of Nikos Skalkottas / Eva Mantzourani; title: 'An era of ethos' : hellenic lyricism in the early twentieth-century Russian art-song / Philip Ross Bullock; title: A Dionysiac angel : Nietzschean elements in Prokofiev's Ognennii angel / Katerina Levidou; title: A musical way to myth : the role of music in cinematic receptions of Greek tragedy / Stella Voskaridou Economou.