The Muse as Eros - Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination (Paperback)

The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. 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. Each of the chapters begins with explorations into male artists' relationships with their Muse, and moves to analysis and interpretation which uncovers cultural constructions of masculine artistic inspiration and production, and their association with creatively inspiring and erotically charged relationships with a Muse. New insights are offered into the musical meaning and cultural significance of selected works by Rossini, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Wagner, Sibelius, Mahler, BartA(3)k, Scriabin, Szymanowski, Debussy, Berg, Poulenc and Weill.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2006
Authors:	Stephen Downes
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-25862-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	1-138-25862-8
Barcode:	9781138258624

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