Music In Goethe S Faust

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Faust (Legendary character)
ISBN : 9781783272006

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Music in Goethe's Faust by Lorraine Byrne Bodley Pdf

Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Introduction. Rhapsody and Rebuke: Goethe's Faust in Music -- Part I Goethe's Faust: Content and Context -- 1 The Redress of Goethe's Faust in Music History -- 2 Wagering on Modernity: Goethe's Eighteenth-Century Faust -- 3 Reflectivity, Music and the Modern Condition: Thoughts on Goethe's Faust -- 4 Music and Metaphorical Thinking in Goethe's Faust: The Example of Harmony -- 5 Faust: The Instrumentalisation of an Icon -- Part II Legacies: Goethe's Faust in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 Faust's Schubert: Schubert's Faust -- 7 The Musical Novel as Master-genre: Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust -- 8 The Psychology of Schumann's Faust: Developing the Human Soul -- 9 A Life with Goethe: Wagner's Engagement with Faust in Music and in Words -- 10 Wagner's Ninth: Reading Beethoven with Faust -- 11 Linking Christian and Faustian Utopias: Mahler's Setting of the Schlußszene in his Eighth Symphony -- Part III Topographies: Stagings and Critical Reception -- 12 Operatic Translation and Adaptation: Gounod's Faust, with a Tribute to Ken Russell -- 13 'Adapters, Falsifiers and Profiteers': Staging La Damnation de Faust in Monte Carlo and Paris, 1893-1903 -- 14 Faust in the Trenches: Busoni's Doktor Faust -- Part IV New Directions: Recent Productions and Appropriations -- 15 As Goethe Intended? Max Reinhardt's Faust Productions and the Aesthetics of Incidental Music in the Early Twentieth Century -- 16 Music and the Rebirth of Faust in the GDR -- 17 Music, Text and Stage: Peter Stein's Production of Goethe's Faust -- 18 'Devilishly good': Rudolf Volz's Rock Opera Faust and 'Event Culture' -- Select Bibligraphy -- Index

Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons,Charles McKnight
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199935192

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The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music by Lorna Fitzsimmons,Charles McKnight Pdf

Since its emergence in sixteenth-century Germany, the magician Faust's quest has become one of the most profound themes in Western history. Though variants are found across all media, few adaptations have met with greater acclaim than in music. Bringing together more than two dozen authors in a foundational volume, The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music testifies to the spectacular impact the Faust theme has exerted over the centuries. The Handbook's three-part organization enables readers to follow the evolution of Faust in music across time and stylistic periods. Part I explores symphonic, choral, chamber, and solo Faust works by composers from Beethoven to Schnittke. Part II discusses the range of Faustian operas, and Part III examines Faust's presence in ballet and musical theater. Illustrating the interdisciplinary relationships between music and literature and the fascinating tapestry of intertextual relationships among the works of Faustian music themselves, the volume suggests that rather than merely retelling the story of Faust, these musical compositions contribute significant insights on the tale and its unrivalled cultural impact.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : German poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1ZBC

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Songs and Scenes from Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110973976

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Lives of Faust by Lorna Fitzsimmons Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary reader on the Faust theme in literature and music from the Reformation to the present. Essays by Faust scholars set the texts in context. Peter Werres introduces the collection with The Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus. Osman Durrani and Gerald Strauss discuss contexts of the Faust Book, given in the English translation The Historie of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus. David Wootton compares Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the English Faust Book. Klaus L. Berghahn’s analysis of transformations of the theme and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performance announcements contextualize the popular Puppet-Play of Doctor Faust. Works of Faustian music include the ballad The Just Judgment of God shew’d upon Dr. John Faustus, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, and Gounod’s Faust. Essays by Henry Bacon and Steven R. Cerf engage the Faust theme in Romantic music and twentieth-century opera. Osman Durrani introduces 19th-Century American Fausts, represented by Hawthorne’s The Birthmark, and excerpts from Ethan Brand and Melville’s Moby Dick. Faust themes in the 20th and 21st centuries are represented by Valéry’s My Faust, Shapiro’s The Progress of Faust, Osman Durrani’s overview of Faust globalized, and Paul M. Malone’s work on the Faust theme in rock opera. A reading list is included.

Author : James William Kelly
Publisher : Detroit : Information Coordinators
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015007602363

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The Faust Legend in Music by James William Kelly Pdf

Author : Hans Schulte,John Noyes,Pia Kleber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139496087

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Goethe's Faust by Hans Schulte,John Noyes,Pia Kleber Pdf

Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centrepiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theatre productions, press coverage and public discussions. Reflecting this renewed interest, leading Goethe scholars in this volume explore the play's striking modernity within its theatrical framework. The chapters present new aspects such as the virtuality of Faust, the music drama, the modernization of evil, Faust's blindness, the gay Mephistopheles, classic beauty and horror as phantasmagoria, and Goethe's anticipation of modern science, economics and ecology. The book contains an illustrated section on Faust in modern performance, with contributions by renowned directors, critics and dramaturges, and a major interview with Peter Stein, director of the uncut 'millennium production' of Expo 2000.

Author : George Sand
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469610238

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A Woman's Version of the Faust Legend by George Sand Pdf

George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage. Completed in 1838 during the early stages of Sand's romantic involvement with Frederic Chopin, it is one of the very few treatments of the Faust legend by a woman. George Kennedy offers the first English translation of this work, along with an introduction that places the play in its philosophical and literary context. The Seven Strings of the Lyre is Sand's response to Goethe's Faust and a reflection of her views of music as developed in conversations with Chopin and Franz Liszt. Sand, unlike so many of her contemporaries, saw Goethe as a less-than-ideal poet. She criticized him for lacking "enthusiasm, belief, and passion," and she faulted him for being a proponent of the art-for-art's-sake movement, which Sand deplored for its lack of social conscience. Sand's play describes the efforts of Mephistopheles to win the soul of Albertus, a teacher of philosophy and descendant of Faust. Regarding Goethe's Mephistopheles as insufficiently wicked, Sand conjures up a devil truly worthy of the epithet. For Faust, whom she considered too cold, Sand substitues the more emotional Albertus, whose despair that life and love have passed him by in his devotion to philosophy makes him vulnerable to the machinations of the devil. And in place of Goethe's village girl, Marguerite, or the dangerous Helen of the earlier Faust legend, Sand creates the angelic Helen, who awakens Albertus's love and teaches him the emotional and spiritual truths he had never learned from books. Richly philosophical and deeply romantic, the play is a reaction against eighteenth-century rationalism. It asserts the existence of some higher truth to be foud in music, poetry, and a sympathetic response to nature, but it also, contrary to the doctrine of art for art's sake, demands social responsibility from the artist. Sand believed that the arts should lead society to an awareness of truth, freedom, and the meaning of life, and The Seven Strings of the Lyre is an attempt to dramatize this belief. Originally published in 1989. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : William E. Grim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Faust (Legendary character)
ISBN : UOM:39015020829001

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The Faust Legend in Music and Literature by William E. Grim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175024854245

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The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300056567

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Faust, a Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

The first part of Goethe's masterpiece about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil

Author : J. M. van der Laan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441134752

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Seeking Meaning for Goethe's Faust by J. M. van der Laan Pdf

Faust stories are found across the ages and the arts. From its earliest to most recent expressions, the Faust figure continues to capture our imagination, dealing with problems and themes that are still relevant for a twenty-first century audience. Of the many variations on the Faust-myth, Goethe's remains especially provocative and laden with meaning and is the work most responsible for determining the subsequent character of the Faust archetype. His Faust reflects an individual who asserts, yet wrestles unrelentingly with the futility of faith, the bankruptcy of knowledge, and the loss of meaning. One of the greatest texts of both German and world literature, Faust, Parts I and II, confronts us with pressing questions about rebellion and suffering, faith and its loss, reality and simulation, order and chaos, weakness and power, technology and human improvement. This monograph offers a new interpretation of Goethe's famous play, emphasising its continuing significance today.

Author : E. A. Bucchianeri
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434390615

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Faust by E. A. Bucchianeri Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of Dr. Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil, and those who lived to tell his tale. Volume I includes: New insights into the life and times of the historical Dr. Faustus, the notorious occultist and charlatan who reputedly declared the devil was his brother-in-law. A detailed study of the first Faust books and the popular Faustian folk tales. Original discussions on Christopher Marlowes famous drama and his atheistic rendition of the Faustian myth, including a unique and controversial analysis of the A and B texts. The days of the Faust puppet plays. Gotthold Ephraim Lessings unfinished Faust drama. Volume II features: A unique, in-depth account of Johann Wolfgang von Goethes masterpiece, Faust, Parts One and Two. An examination of the early sketches of his classic drama. Includes detailed explanations of Goethes hidden symbolism in the text, his interest in history and science, the occult, alchemy, Freemasonry and his warnings to future generations.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4084650

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Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : Sara Munson Deats
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108475853

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The Faust Legend by Sara Munson Deats Pdf

Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1IZ5

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Marlowe's Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Pdf