The Orpheus Myth And The Powers Of Music
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The Orpheus Myth And The Powers Of Music
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Author : Vladimir L. Marchenkov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Orpheus Myth And The Powers Of Music written by Vladimir L. Marchenkov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This book examines the key turning points in the history of the Orpheus myth as factors that shaped, and continues to shape, our conceptions of music's powers. From its beginnings in archaic Antiquity to the latest major opera based on it, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been used by poets, philosophers, and musicians to express an increasingly complex set of ideas about what music can do. The study follows three threads in the myth's history: changes in form, cultural status, and the resulting visions of the powers of song. The most spectacular change in form is the role played by Eurydice who evolves from a generic, voiceless type into a rich music-philosophical symbol. Equally fascinating is the entangled issue of Orpheus's success and failure. In terms of cultural status, the story remains a genuine myth, ?even alongside its non-mythical forms, ?until the early modern period. Modernity problematizes the existence of myth but its mythophobia becomes a symptom of its own profound irrationality. Accordingly, the powers of music evolve from mythic omnipotence to screaming contradictions that demand, but fail to achieve, resolution. From Monteverdi and Striggio to Birtwistle and Zinovieff, composers and librettists turn to Orpheus and Eurydice to express their sense of music's place in human existence. The undulating tapestry of their strikingly diverse answers points to the need to rethink, once again, the fundamentals of our musical culture.
Orpheus
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Author : Padraic Colum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Orpheus written by Padraic Colum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
Enlightenment Orpheus
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Author : Vanessa Agnew
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-05
Enlightenment Orpheus written by Vanessa Agnew and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with History categories.
The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines this apparent conflict, and provocatively questions the notion of an aesthetic-philosophical break between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Agnew persuasively connects the English traveler and music scholar Charles Burney with the ancient myth of Orpheus. She uses Burney as a guide through wide-ranging discussions of eighteenth-century musical travel, views on music's curative powers, interest in non-European music, and concerns about cultural identity. Arguing that what people said about music was central to some of the great Enlightenment debates surrounding such issues as human agency, cultural difference, and national identity, Agnew adds a new dimension to postcolonial studies, which has typically emphasized the literary and visual at the expense of the aural. She also demonstrates that these discussions must be viewed in context at the era's broad and well-entrenched transnational network, and emphasizes the importance of travel literature in generating knowledge at the time.A new and radically interdisciplinary approach to the question of the power of music - its aesthetic and historical interpretations and political uses - Enlightenment Orpheus will appeal to students and scholars in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, German studies, eighteenth-century history, and comparative studies.
The Orpheus Myth In Musical Thought Of Antiquity The Renaissance And Modern Times
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Author : Vladimir L. Marchenkov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Orpheus Myth In Musical Thought Of Antiquity The Renaissance And Modern Times written by Vladimir L. Marchenkov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Music categories.
The Concept Of Music In Robert Henryson S Orpheus And Eurydice
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Author : Agnetha Hinz
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-20
The Concept Of Music In Robert Henryson S Orpheus And Eurydice written by Agnetha Hinz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (Institut fur Englische Philologie), course: Medieval English Literatures II, language: English, abstract: "Music, through the sweetness of its melody, brings pleasure and comfort to the soul." This citation by Nigel Wilkin in "Music in the Age of Chaucer" ascribes a special own form of power to music; the power to affect someone's soul. Also in the poem of Orpheus and Eurydice by the Scottish poet Robert Henryson, music plays a decisive role and implies a special power to the protagonist. The poem, which approximately was written in the late fifteenth century, leans on the Greek myth of Orpheus. King Orpheus, who is introduced as the grandson of Memoria and Jupiter, the son of the "michty god Phebuss" and the muse Caliope, "that madin mervalouss, / The ferd sistir, of all musik maistress," gains his bond to music through his mother's milk, quod vide "gart him souk of hir twa paupis quhyte/ The sueit lecour of all musik perfyte." Henryson describes Orpheus as "fair and wyse, / Gentill and gud, full of liberalitie." His "noble fame" was extensive, so that the queen of "Trace," called Eurydice, heard about him, too. They get married and live their life full of happiness, pleasure and enjoyment."
Orpheus
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Author : Ann Wroe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-14
Orpheus written by Ann Wroe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-14 with History categories.
For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. She traces the man, and the power he represents, through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalising Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalising the Fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death.
The Concept Of Music In Robert Henryson S Orpheus And Eurydice
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Author : Agnetha Hinz
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-07-08
The Concept Of Music In Robert Henryson S Orpheus And Eurydice written by Agnetha Hinz and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Medieval English Literatures II, language: English, abstract: “Music, through the sweetness of its melody, brings pleasure and comfort to the soul.” This citation by Nigel Wilkin in “Music in the Age of Chaucer” ascribes a special own form of power to music; the power to affect someone’s soul. Also in the poem of Orpheus and Eurydice by the Scottish poet Robert Henryson , music plays a decisive role and implies a special power to the protagonist. The poem, which approximately was written in the late fifteenth century, leans on the Greek myth of Orpheus. King Orpheus, who is introduced as the grandson of Memoria and Jupiter, the son of the “michty god Phebuss“ and the muse Caliope, “that madin mervalouss,/ The ferd sistir, of all musik maistress“, gains his bond to music through his mother’s milk, quod vide “gart him souk of hir twa paupis quhyte/ The sueit lecour of all musik perfyte“. Henryson describes Orpheus as “fair and wyse,/ Gentill and gud, full of liberalitie”. His “noble fame“ was extensive, so that the queen of “Trace”, called Eurydice, heard about him, too. They get married and live their life full of happiness, pleasure and enjoyment.
Elizabethan Mythologies
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Author : Robin Headlam Wells
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-05-12
Elizabethan Mythologies written by Robin Headlam Wells and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
For lovers of music and poetry the legendary figure of Orpheus probably suggests a romantic ideal. But for the Renaissance he is essentially a political figure. Mythographers interpreted the Orpheus story as an allegory of the birth of civilization because they recognized in the arts in which Orpheus excelled an instrument of social control so powerful that with it you could, as one writer put it, 'winne Cities and whole Countries'. Dealing with plays, poems, songs and the iconography of musical instruments, Robin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, of the transforming power of music and poetry. Elizabethan Mythologies, first published in 1994, contains numerous illustrations from the period and will be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance poetry, drama and music, and of the history of ideas.
The Orpheus Myth In Musical Thought Of Antiquity The Renaissance And Modern Times
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Author : Vladimir Leonidovi Marchenkov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Orpheus Myth In Musical Thought Of Antiquity The Renaissance And Modern Times written by Vladimir Leonidovi Marchenkov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Music categories.
Music Myth And Story In Medieval And Early Modern Culture
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Author : Katherine Butler
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2019
Music Myth And Story In Medieval And Early Modern Culture written by Katherine Butler and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Music categories.
The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.