This title examines Szymanowski's exploration of the relationship between the authorial voice, mythology and eroticism within the context of the crisis of the modern subject in Western culture. Stephen Downes examines mythological and erotic aspects of selected songs from the composer's early career, moving to an interpretation of the voice of the homoerotic lover, embodied as a mad muezzin, in terms of heroic notions of Orphic elegy. Discussing the encounters of King Roger with the voices of Narcissus, the Siren and Dionysus, Downes shows how the composer uses the unifying Christ/Eros figure as a means of indicating that the King might be transformed from anguished despot to loving expressive subject. The book ends with an examination of Szymanowski's attempts to fuse Slavonic and Middle-Eastern mythological inspirations in an attempt to fulfil a utopian vision of a pan-European culture bound together by the spirit of Eros.
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What Szymanowski believed he needed for the task was the 'irresistible, suggestive power' of Dostoyevsky, whose 'vision of the "integral man" is like a magic formula, through which he suddenly reveals the hidden significance of seemingly the most paradoxical events and defines the confused content of the integral man's inner life'.2 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Roger, Karol Szymanowski, New York, Roland Barthes, Book of King, Standard Edition, The Birth of Tragedy, Young Poland, Lawrence Kramer, North Africa, The Bacchae, Black Sea, First World War, Karola Szymanowskiego, Mona Lisa, The Pleasure of the Text, Alistair Wightman, Carl Dahlhaus, Carolyn Abbate, Defining Russia Musically, Hans Keller, Michel Foucault, Queering the Pitch, Sexual Anarchy, Sexual Science New!
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What Szymanowski believed he needed for the task was the 'irresistible, suggestive power' of Dostoyevsky, whose 'vision of the "integral man" is like a magic formula, through which he suddenly reveals the hidden significance of seemingly the most paradoxical events and defines the confused content of the integral man's inner life'.2 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Roger, Karol Szymanowski, New York, Roland Barthes, Book of King, Standard Edition, The Birth of Tragedy, Young Poland, Lawrence Kramer, North Africa, The Bacchae, Black Sea, First World War, Karola Szymanowskiego, Mona Lisa, The Pleasure of the Text, Alistair Wightman, Carl Dahlhaus, Carolyn Abbate, Defining Russia Musically, Hans Keller, Michel Foucault, Queering the Pitch, Sexual Anarchy, Sexual Science New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology by Philip Brett on 7 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Gary Gutting on 5 pages
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- To Fill, Forbear, or Adorne': The Organ Accompaniment of Restoration Sacred Music (Royal Musical Association Monographs) (Royal Musical Association Monographs) by Rebecca Herissone in Front Matter
- Salomon and the Burneys: Private Patronage and a Public Career (Royal Musical Association Monographs) (Royal Musical Association Monographs) by Ian Woodfield in Front Matter
- The Muse As Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy And Male Creativity in the Romantic And Modern Imagination by Stephen Downes in Back Matter
- Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives (Royal Musical Association Monographs) (Royal Musical Association Monographs) by Adam Ockelford in Front Matter
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