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Title Musical receptions of Greek antiquity : from the romantic era to modernism / edited by Katerina Levidou, Katy Romanou and George Vlastos
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), music
Contents Inventing ancestry, imagining antiquity : classical Greece in Russian music / Marina Frolova-Walker -- From mythology to social politics : Goethe's Proserpina with music by Carl Eberwein / Lorraine Byrne Bodley -- On common ground? : Greek antiquity and twentieth-century Greek music / Kostas Chardas -- Nikolay Tcherepnin's Narcisse and the aesthetic promise of self-presence / Paulo F. de Castro -- Socrate in context : Satie's 'Humble homage' to the past / George Vlastos -- What makes a hero? : Szymanowski, Enescu and the classical plot / Jim Samson -- German gymnasium, and germinal Greek : Heinrich Bellermann's stage music for three tragedies by Sophocles / Gesine Schröder -- Nostos through the West and Nostos through the East : readings of ancient Greek music in early twentieth-century Constantinople and Athens / Katy Romanou -- The Odysseus myth revisited : exile and homecoming in the life and music of Nikos Skalkottas / Eva Mantzourani -- 'An era of ethos' : hellenic lyricism in the early twentieth-century Russian art-song / Philip Ross Bullock -- A Dionysiac angel : Nietzschean elements in Prokofiev's Ognennii angel / Katerina Levidou -- A musical way to myth : the role of music in cinematic receptions of Greek tragedy / Stella Voskaridou Economou
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Music -- Classical influences -- History and criticism
Music -- Greek influences
Music.
Music
music (discipline)
Music.
Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
20th century & contemporary classical music.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Music
Music -- Classical influences
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Levidou, Ekaterini, 1977-
ISBN 9781443896566
144389656X