Author: Herbert Matthew WymanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Music for Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound Preceded by a Survey of Greek Musical Studies
Author: Herbert Matthew WymanPrometheus in Music
Author: Paul BertagnolliPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135155302X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, the primordial Titan who defied the Olympian gods by stealing fire from the heavens as a gift for humanity, enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Romantic era. An international coterie of writers such as Goethe, Monti, Byron, the Shelleys, Sainte-H?ne, Coleridge, Browning, and Bridges engaged with the legend, while composers such as Beethoven, Reichardt, Schubert, Wolf, Liszt, Hal?, Saint-Sa?, Holm? Faur?Parry, Goldmark, and Bargiel based works of diverse genres on the fable. Romantic authors and composers developed a unique perspective on the myth, emphasizing its themes of rebellion, punishment for transgression and creative autonomy, in great contrast to artists of the preceding era, who more characteristically ignored the tribulations of Prometheus and depicted him as the animator of a na?, Arcadian mankind who, when awakened from their spiritual dormancy, expressed astonishment at the wonders of nature and paid homage to the Titan as a new god. Paul Bertagnolli charts the progress of the myth during the nineteenth century, as it articulates an extraordinary variety of issues pertaining to culture, society, aesthetics, and philosophy. Drawing on archival research, dance history, sketch studies, literary theory, linear analysis, topos theory, and reception history, individual chapters demonstrate that the legend served as a vehicle to express opinions on subjects as diverse as aristocratic patronage, movements of the body on the public stage, rebellion against political and religious authority, outright atheism, humanitarianism of the German Enlightenment, interest in the music of Greek antiquity, industrialization, nationalism inflamed by war, populism, and the aesthetics of musical form. Composers often resorted to varied and unorthodox musical techniques in order to reflect such remarkable subjects: Beethoven outraged critics by implying a key other than the tonic at the outset of the overture to
The Prometheus Bound of Æschylus
Author: AeschylusPrometheus Bound
Author: AeschylusPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195061659
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A new translation of Prometheus bound with extant fragments of the lost Prometheus plays.
The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Author: AeschylusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy).
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Author: AeschylusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107619971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Originally published in 1899, this book contains the Greek text of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. The tragedy is prefaced with a history of Prometheus in Greek myth and an attempted reconstruction of the other two plays in the Prometheus trilogy, of which Prometheus Bound is the only extant piece.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author: Aeschylus
Author: Aeschylus
Author: Æschylus