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Author_Stephen Downes
Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
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Chromatic Signature
composer muse relationships
cultural constructions of inspiration
Danse Macabre
Debussy's Setting
Debussy’s Setting
Di Tanti Palpiti
Die Ferne Geliebte
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Flat Submediant
gendered creativity
Hero's Journey
Hero’s Journey
Ich Liebe Dich
La Voix Humaine
Le Balcon
Le Coq
Liszt's Faust Symphony
Liszt’s Faust Symphony
Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder
male artist muse dynamics in music
masculinity in music
Mephisto Waltz
Musical Embodiment
Ninth Chord
Nun Seh
psychoanalytic musicology
romanticism and modernism
Rossini's Music
Rossini’s Music
Schumann's Fantasie
Schumann’s Fantasie
Sibelius's Music
Sibelius’s Music
Sixth Quartet
Sixth Symphonies
Tonal Allusion
Tristan Chord
Product details
- ISBN 9780754635703
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculine subjectivity, and important aspects of the shift from the styles and aesthetics of Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each of the chapters begins with explorations into male artists' relationships with their Muse, and moves to analysis and interpretation which uncovers cultural constructions of masculine artistic inspiration and production, and their association with creatively inspiring and erotically charged relationships with a Muse. New insights are offered into the musical meaning and cultural significance of selected works by Rossini, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Wagner, Sibelius, Mahler, Bartók, Scriabin, Szymanowski, Debussy, Berg, Poulenc and Weill.
Stephen Downes is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, UK.
