Beyond Fingal's cave : Ossian in the musical imagination / James Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, James, 1937- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Eastman studies in music

Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ossian, active 3rd century.

Ossian.

Music--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism in music.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 401 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.

Contents:

Battling critics, engaging composers : Ossian's spell

On Macpherson's native heath : primary sources

A culture without writing, settings without a score, Haydn without copyright, and two Oscars on stage

"A musical piece" : Harriet Wainewright's opera Comàla (1792)

Between Gluck and Berlioz : Méhul's Uthal (1806)

Fingallo e Comala (1805) and Ardano e Dartula (1825) : the Ossianic operas of Stefano Pavesi

From Venice to Lisbon and St. Petersburg : Calto, Clato, Aganadeca, Gaulo ed Oitona, and two Fingals

Beethoven's Ossianic manner, or, Where scholars fear to tread

Excursus: Mendelssohn waives the rules : "Overture to the Isles of Fingal" (1832) and an "unfinished" coda

The maiden bereft : "Colma" from Rust (1780) to Schubert (1816)

Scènes lyriques sans frontières : Louis Théodore Gouvy's Le dernier hymne d'Ossian (1858) and Lucien Hillemacher's Fingal (188

Ossian in symbolic conflict : Bernhard Hopffer's Darthula's Grabgesang (1878), Jules Bordier's Un rêve d'Ossian (1885), and Paul Umlauft's Agandecca (1884)

The musical stages of "Darthula" : from Thomas Linley the Younger (ca. 1776) to Arnold Schoenberg (1903) and Armin Knab (1906)

The cantata as drama : Joseph Jongen's Comala (1897), Jørgen Malling's Kyvala (1902), and Liza Lehmann's Leaves from Ossian (1909)

Symphonic poem and orchestral fantasy : Alexandre Levy's Comala (1890) and Charles Villiers Stanford's Irish rhapsody no. 2: Lament for the son of Ossian (1903)

Neo-Romanticism in Britain and America : John Laurence Seymour's "Shilric's song" (from Six Ossianic odes) and Cedric Thorpe Davie's Dirge for Cuthullin (both 1936)

Modernity, modernism, and Ossian : Erik Chisholm's Night song of the bards (1944-51), James MacMillan's The death of Oscar (2013), and Jean Guillou's Ballade ossianique, no. 2: Les chants de Selma (1971, rev. 2005

Afterword: The "half-viewless harp"

secondary resonances of Ossian

Appendix I: Title page and dedication of Harriet Wainewright's Comàla

Appendix 2: French and German texts of Louis Théodore Gouvy's Le dernier hymne d'Ossian

Appendix 3: Texts of Erik Chisholm's Night song of the bards

Appendix 4: Provisional list of musical compositions based on the poems of Ossian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781580469456

1580469450

OCLC:

1065732895