Symphonic program music and its literary sources / Lawrence Casler.

Author/creator Casler, Lawrence
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
Description2 volumes : music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in the history and interpretation of music ; 75a-75b
Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; 75a-75b. ^A231525
Contents v. 1. Avshalomov, Jacob. The taking of T'ung Kuan -- Balakirev, Mili. Thamar: symphonic poem for orchestra -- Bantock, Granville. Comedy overture: the frogs ; The Cyprian goddess ; Fifine at the fair ; Overture to a Greek tragedy: Oedipus at Colonus ; Pagan symphony ; The Pierrot of the minute: comedy overture ; The witch of Atlas -- Barber, Samuel. Music for a scene from Shelley ; Overture to The School for Scandal -- Bax, Arnold. The garden of Fand ; The happy forest ; In the faery hills ; Spring fire -- Beethoven, Ludwig van. Coriolan overture -- Berlinski, Herman. Symphonic variations for orchestra ; Berlioz, Hector. Harold in Italy ; King Lear overture ; Rob Roy overture ; Waverley overture -- Bernier, Rene. Ode to a Madonna -- Bernstein, Leonard. The age of anxiety, Symphony no. 2 for piano and orchestra -- Bloch, Ernest. Schelomo -- Borgstrom, Hjalmar. Hamlet: symphonic poem for piano and orchestra -- Bridge, Frank. There is a willow grows aslant a brook -- Butterworth, George. A shropshire lad -- Caggiano, Nestore. Three orchestral pieces. Adelchi ; Alla citta di Ferrara ; La tomba nel Busento -- Caplet, Andre. Legende -- Carpenter, John Alden. Sea drift -- Castillo, Ricardo. La Doncella Ixquic -- Catalani, Alfredo. Ero e Leandro -- Chadwick, George Whitefield. Rip Van Winkle overture ; Tam O'Shanter -- Chausson, Ernest. Poeme ; Viviane -- Coates, Eric. Cinderella: a phantasy ; The selfish giant: a phantasy ; The three bears: phantasy -- Converse, Frederick. Endymion's narrative: romance for orchestra ; The mystic trumpeter, orchestral fantasy -- Creston, Paul. Out of the cradle ; Symphony no. 3 (three mysteries) -- Debussy, Claude. Prelude a l'apres-midi d'une faune -- Delius, Frederick. Eventyr ; In a summer garden -- Diamond, David. The enormous room ; Music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens: a symphonic portrait after Shakespeare -- D'Indy, Vincent. The enchanted forest ; Istar ; Saugefleurie ; Three symphonic overtures (Wallenstein) -- Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von. Six symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Dukas, Paul. Polyeucte ; The sorcerer's apprentice -- Duparc, Henri. Lenore: symphonic poem for orchestra after the ballad of Burger -- Dvorak, Antonin. Four symphonic poems based on ballads by Erben. The golden spinning wheel ; The noon witch ; The water goblin ; The wood dove ; Othello overture -- Dyson, George. Children's suite after Walter de la Mare -- Elgar, Edward. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra ; Froissart -- Emmanuel, Maurice. Le poeme du Rhone ; Symphony no. 2 (Bretonne) -- Fibich, Zdenek. Toman and the wood nymph ; Zaboj, Slavoj, and Ludek -- Foerster, Josef Bohuslav. Cyrano de Bergerac ; Shakespeare suite for large orchestra -- Foote, Arthur. Symphonic prologue, Francesca da Rimini -- Franck, Cesar. Ce q'on entend sur la montagne ; Le chasseur maudit ; Les djinns ; Les eolides -- Fuchs, Robert. Overture to Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen -- Gade, Niels. Echoes of ossian overture ; Hamlet overture ; Holbergiana -- Ginastera, Alberto. Overture to the Creole Faust -- Glass, Louis. Symphony no. 6 (Skjoldungeoet) -- Gliere, Reinhold. Symphony no. 3 (Ilya Murometz) -- Goldmark, Karl. Penthesilia overture ; Prometheus bound overture ; Sakuntala overture -- Griffes, Charles Tomlinson. The pleasure dome of Kubla Khan -- Grofe, Ferde. Mississippi suite: Huckleberry Finn -- Guridi, Jesus. Una aventura de Don Quijote -- Hadley, Henry. Salome -- Hall, Pauline. Verlaine suite -- Harris, Clement. Paradise Lost, symphonic poem after John Milton -- Hartmann, Johan Peder Emilius. Axel and Valborg overture ; Correggio overture -- Harty, Hamilton. With the wild geese, poem for orchestra -- Haydn, Franz Joseph. The seven last words -- Herberigs, Robert. Cyrano de Bergerac ; The song of Hiawatha -- Herbert, Victor. Hero and Leander -- Hill, Edward Burlingame. Stevensonia: suite no. 1 -- Holbrooke, Joseph. Poems for orchestra. The raven ; Ulalume -- Holst, Gustav. Egdon Heath -- Honegger, Arthur. Pastoral d'ete ; Prelude to Aglavaine et Selysette -- Horneman, Christian Frederick Emil. Fairy-tale overture: Aladdin -- Huber, Hans. Symphony no. 5 (Romantic: The fiddler of Gmund) -- Hurlstone, William. The magic mirror -- Hurum, Alf. Bendik og Aarolilja -- Ibert, Jacques. Ballad of reading gaol -- Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail. Three musical tableaux from ossian -- Ireland, John. Overture: Satyricon ; Symphonic rhapsody: Mai-Dun -- Janacek, Leos. The ballad of Blanik ; The fiddler's child ; Taras Bulba -- Joachim, Joseph. Overture to a comedy by Gozzi ; Overture to Hamlet ; Overture to Henry IV -- Johansen, David Monrad. Pan, symphonic music.
Contents v. 2. Kalinnikov, Vasily. The cedar and the palm -- Klami, Uuno. The cobblers on the heath overture ; Kalevala suite ; The adventures of Lemminkainen on the island of Saari -- Koechlin, Charles. Ballade for piano and orchestra ; Le Buisson ardent ; The jungle book -- Leifs, Jon. Symphony no. 1 (Saga heroes) -- Lekeu, Guillaume. Second etude symphonique: I-Hamlet, II-Ophelie -- Liadov, Anatol. Baba Yaga ; From the apocalypse -- Liapunov, Sergei. Hashish: oriental symphonic poem -- Liszt, Franz. Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne ; Dante symphony ; Die Ideale ; Festklange ; From the cradle to the grave ; Hamlet ; Heroide funebre ; Hungaria ; Die Hunnenschlacht ; Les preludes ; Mazeppa ; Orpheus ; Prometheus ; Tasso, lamento e trionfo ; Le triomphe funebre du Tasse ; Two episodes from Lenau's Faust. Mephisto waltz #1 ; The procession by night -- Locatelli, Pietro. The plaint of Ariadne -- Loeffler, Charles Martin. Mort de Tintagiles ; A pagan poem ; Poem ; La villanelle du diable -- MacCunn, Hamish. The land of the mountain and the flood -- MacDowell, Edward. Hamlet and Ophelia ; Lamia ; Lancelot and Elaine ; Second (Indian) suite: Legend ; Two fragments after the Song of Roland -- Mackenzie, Alexander. Twelfth night overture -- Mason, Daniel Gregory. Chanticleer: a festive overture -- Massenet, Jules. Phedre overture ; Scenes dramatiques -- McEwen, John Blackwood. The demon lover -- Mendelssohn, Felix. Calm sea and prosperous voyage overture ; Overture to a A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Merikanto, Aarre. Lemminkainen -- Miaskovsky, Nikolai. Silence ; Symphony no. 10 -- Moscheles, Ignaz. Overture to Schiller's tragedy The Maid of Orleans -- Mussorgsky, Modest. Night on bald mountain -- Nielsen, Carl. Pan and Syrinx ; Saga-drom for orchestra -- Novak, Viteslav. De profundis ; Eternal longing ; Marysa overture ; Toman and the wood nymph -- Paine, John Knowles. Overture to Shakespeare's As You Like It ; Symphonic poem, The Tempest -- Parry, Hubert. Overture to an unwritten tragedy -- Persichetti, Vincent. The hollow men -- Pierne, Gabriel. Paysages franciscains -- Pierson, Heinrich Hugo. Romeo and Juliet -- Pingoud, Ernest. Le prophete -- Powell, John. Rhapsodie negre -- Rabaud, Henri Benjamin. La procession nocturne -- Rachmaninov, Sergei. The crag ; Prince Rostislav, poem for orchestra -- Raff, Joachim. Overture to Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Overture to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; Symphony no. 5 (Lenore) -- Raitio, Vaino. Antigone ; Fantasia poetica ; The swans -- Rangstrom, Ture. Dithyramb -- Rheinberger, Josef. Overture to Schiller's Demetrius ; Wallenstein -- Riisager, Knudage. Erasmus Montanus overture -- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai. Symphony no. 2 (Antar) ; Sadko ; Scheherazade, symphonic suite ; Skazka -- Rogers, Bernard. Once upon a time: five fairy tales -- Roussel, Albert. Resurrection -- Rubinstein, Anton. Don Quixote ; Faust, musical picture after Goethe -- Saint-Saens, Camille. Danse macabre ; Le jeunesse d'Hercule ; Phaeton ; Le rouet d'Omphale -- Schillings, Max von. Seemorgen ; Symphonic prologue to Sophocles' Konig Oedipus -- Schmitt, Florent. Etude pour palais hante d'Edgar Poe ; Reves -- Schoenberg, Arnold. Pelleas and Melisande -- Schumann, Robert. The bride of Messina overture ; Hermann und Dorothea overture ; Julius Caesar overture ; Manfred overture -- Sibelius, Jean. The bard ; Lemminkainen suite ; The oceanides ; Pohjola's daughter ; Tapiola -- Skalkottas, Nikos. Symphony, the return of Odysseus -- Smetana, Bedrich. Hakon Jarl ; Richard III ; Wallenstein's camp -- Sowerby, Leo. Piece for orchestra after Sandburg's theme in yellow -- Prairie -- Spohr, Ludwig. Symphony no. 4 (Die Weihe der Tone) -- Stanford, Charles Villiers. Symphony no. 5 (L'allegro ed il pensieroso) -- Stenhammar, Wilhelm. Excelsior! -- Strauss, Johann (Jr.). Mephistos Hollenrufe -- Strauss, Richard. Also sprach Zarathustra ; Don Juan ; Don Quixote ; Macbeth ; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks -- Strong, George Templeton. Symphony no. 2 (Sintram) -- Suk, Josef. Ripening -- Svendsen, Johan. Romeo and Juliet ; Zorahayda -- Szymanowski, Karol. Concert overture -- Taylor, Deems. Through the looking glass -- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich. Francesca da Rimini: symphonic fantasy ; Hamlet: overture fantasia after Shakespeare for orchestra ; Manfred, symphony after Byron ; Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasia ; The storm overture ; The Tempest: symphonic fantasia ; The voyevede: symphonic ballad -- Tcherepnin, Nikolai. The enchanted kingdom ; La princesse lointaine -- Telemann, Georg Philipp. Don Quixote suite -- Tinel, Edgar. Polyeucte overture -- Tobias, Eudolf. Julius Caesar overture -- Toch, Ernst. Pinocchio: a merry overture -- Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Flos campi ; The lark ascending -- Villa-Lobos, Heitor. Erosao ; Symphony no. 4 (Victoria) -- Vitols, Jazeps. Spriditis -- Volkmann, Robert. Overture to Shakespeare's Richard III -- Wagenaar, Johann. Overture: Cyrano de Bergerac -- Wagner, Richard. A Faust overture -- Wagner, Siegfried. Sehnsucht -- Wallace, William. Creation symphony ; Pelleas and Melisande suite ; Prelude to the Eumenides of Aeschylus ; Sister Helen ; Villon -- Wolf, Hugo. Penthesilia -- Ysaye, Eugene. Chant d'hiver ; Les neiges d'Antan! -- Zemlinsky, Alexander. Die Seejungfrau.
Abstract Based on specific literary resouces, this book provides information on over 260 pieces of orchestral program music up to 1950. Each entry consists of: an account of relevant aspects of the author's and composer's life and about the relationship between the music and it's source.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00054617
ISBN0773474897 (v. 1)
ISBN0773474919 (v. 2)