Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity : From the Romantic Era to Modernism.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- Part I: Constructing and Negotiating Identities -- Inventing Ancestry, Imagining Antiquity -- From Mythology to Social Politics -- On Common Ground? Greek Antiquity and Twentieth-Century Greek Music -- Part II: Transitions and Diversions -- Nikolay Tcherepnin's Narcisse and the Aesthetic Promise of Self-Presence -- Socrate in Context -- What Makes a Hero? Szymanowski, Enescu and the Classical Plot -- Part III: Nostalgia and Restoration -- German Gymnasium, and Germinal Greek -- Nostos through the West and Nostos through the East -- The Odysseus Myth Revisited -- Part IV: In Dialogue with Other Arts -- 'An Era of Eros' -- A Dionysiac Angel -- A Musical Way to Myth -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index of Names.

Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to Modernism is a rich contribution to a topic of increasing scholarly interest, namely, the impact of Greek antiquity on modern culture, with a particular focus on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays offers a more comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of music's interaction with Greek antiquity since the nineteenth century than has been attempted so far, analysing its connotations and repercussions. The volume sheds light on a number of hitherto underexplored case studies, and revisits and reassesses some well-known instances. Through scrutiny of a wide range of cases that extend from the Romantic era to experimentations of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection illuminates how the engagement with and interpretation of elements of ancient Greek culture in and through music reflect the specific historical, cultural and social contexts in which they took place. In analysing the multiple ways in which Greek antiquity inspired Western art music since the nineteenth century, the volume takes advantage of current interdisciplinary developments in musicology, as well as research on reception across various fields, including musicology, Slavic studies, modern Greek studies, Classics, and film studies. By encompassing a wide variety of case studies on repertories at the margins of the Western European art music tradition, while not excluding some central European ones, this volume broadens the focus of an increasingly rich field of research in significant ways.

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