The muse as Eros : music, erotic fantasy and the male creativity in the romantic and modern imagination / Stephen Downes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downes, Stephen C., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Musical analysis.

Music and erotica.

Physical Description:

xii, 300 pages : music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction

The muse as immaculate beloved : Stendhal's 'crystallization' process and listening to Rossini and Beethoven

Schumann, Chopin, the fan of Eros, and the beloved's kiss

The muse as temptress and redemptress : Sibelius's early symphonic narratives

Mahler's fifth and sixth symphonies : idyllic fantasies, the sublime, formal mastery, and processes of mourning and reparation

'She dies' : trauma and erotic elegy in Bartók's pre-First World War music

Names, chords, and the 'pale princess' in Debussy's musical language of love

Poulenc's erotics of humour, melancholy, abjection, and redemption

Names, chords and Lulu's portrait as muse

Fetishistic 'inventions on a chord' : Szymanowski, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Weill, and Poulenc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-291) and index.

ISBN:

0754635708

OCLC:

60393907