Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books: Together with Several Other Poems, Composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal
Author: The Poems of Ossian
Author: Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760) ...
Author: James MacphersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottosj poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Eight Books:
Author: Beyond Fingal's Cave
Author: James PorterPublisher:
ISBN: 1580469450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.
The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal
Author: OssianThe History of Great Britain, from the Restoration, to the Accession of the House of Hannover
Author: James MacphersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal. Translated by James Macpherson, Esq. To which are prefixed, dissertations on the Era and Poems of Ossian ... Embellished with engravings
Author: OssianThe Dean of Lismore's Book
Author: Thomas MaclauchlanPublisher:
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Category : Scottish Gaelic language
Languages : gd
Pages : 454
Book Description
Author: James Macpherson