| Description |
xvi, 284 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Eastman studies in music,
1071-9989
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Eastman studies in music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and indexes. |
| Contents |
The cultural and religious prehistories -- Tolerance, translation, and acceptance : Goethe's and Mendelssohn's voices in European cultural discourse to ca. 1850 -- Reality and illusion, past and present : Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht -- The composition, revision, and publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht -- The sources, structure, and narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht settings -- At the crossroads of identity : critical and artistic responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht treatments -- Performing identity and alterity : Die erste Walpurgisnacht then and now. |
| Subject |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Erste Walpurgisnacht.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust.
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Europe -- Religious life and customs.
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Europe. |
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Other (Philosophy)
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Other (Philosophy) |
| ISBN |
9781580462525 hardcover |
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1580462529 hardcover |
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