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245 10 a| Milton and music /c| Seth Herbst.;

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264 1 a| New York, NY :b| Routledge,c| 2023.;

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490 1 a| Routledge focus on literature;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton's poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton's intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe-even the human soul-is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward-thinking visionary who leaped past his contemporaries in conceiving music as a material phenomenon that exists simultaneously as sound and metaphor. Part II: Milton in Music follows two daring composers in investigating whether Milton's visionary concept of music can be realized in actual musical sound. In Samson, an oratorio adaptation of Milton's Samson Agonistes, Handel resists Miltonic music theory, suggesting that music struggles to function as both sound and metaphor. By contrast, the twentieth-century Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki composes an iconoclastic opera of Paradise Lost that develops a soundworld of fractured dissonance in which music acts as both sound and metaphor. Recovering Milton's own high estimation of music from a critical tradition that has subordinated it to the poet's political and religious convictions, Herbst reveals Milton as an interdisciplinary thinker and overlooked figure in the study of words and music. Driven by bold claims about the comparative treatment of literature and music, Milton and Music revises our understanding of what makes this canonical poet an intellectual revolutionary"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Milton and music / Seth Herbst.

Author/creator	Herbst, Seth author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Description	pages cm.
Subjects	Milton, John, 1608-1674--Knowledge and learning. Milton, John, 1608-1674--Musical settings. --History and criticism. Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation. Music in literature.

Series	Routledge focus on literature Routledge focus on literature. ^A1428062
Abstract	"Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton's poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton's intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe-even the human soul-is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward-thinking visionary who leaped past his contemporaries in conceiving music as a material phenomenon that exists simultaneously as sound and metaphor. Part II: Milton in Music follows two daring composers in investigating whether Milton's visionary concept of music can be realized in actual musical sound. In Samson, an oratorio adaptation of Milton's Samson Agonistes, Handel resists Miltonic music theory, suggesting that music struggles to function as both sound and metaphor. By contrast, the twentieth-century Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki composes an iconoclastic opera of Paradise Lost that develops a soundworld of fractured dissonance in which music acts as both sound and metaphor. Recovering Milton's own high estimation of music from a critical tradition that has subordinated it to the poet's political and religious convictions, Herbst reveals Milton as an interdisciplinary thinker and overlooked figure in the study of words and music. Driven by bold claims about the comparative treatment of literature and music, Milton and Music revises our understanding of what makes this canonical poet an intellectual revolutionary"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Herbst, Seth. Milton and music New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781003378389
Genre/form	Literary criticism.
LCCN	2022058070
ISBN	9781032457215
ISBN	103245721X
ISBN	9781032457222 (paperback)
ISBN	1032457228
ISBN	(ebook)

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