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The muse as Eros : music, erotic fantasy and the male creativity in the romantic and modern imagination / Stephen Downes.
| Author/creator | Downes, Stephen C., 1962- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006. |
| Description | xii, 300 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculine subjectivity, and important aspects of the shift from the styles and aesthetics of Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005014113 |
| ISBN | 0754635708 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754635703 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3838 .D75 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |