Musical receptions of Greek Antiquity : from the Romantic era to Modernism

Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to Modernism' is a rich contribution to a topic of increasing scholarly interest, namely, the impact of Greek antiquity on modern culture, with a particular focus on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays offers a more comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of music's interaction with Greek antiquity since the nineteenth century than has been attempted so far, analysing its connotations and repercussions. The volume sheds light on a number of hitherto underexplored case studies, and revisits and reassesses some well-known instances. Through scrutiny of a wide range of cases that extend from the Romantic era to experimentations of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection illuminates how the engagement with and interpretation of elements of ancient Greek culture in and through music reflect the specific historical, cultural and social contexts in which they took place. 0In analysing the multiple ways in which Greek antiquity inspired Western art music since the nineteenth century, the volume takes advantage of current interdisciplinary developments in musicology, as well as research on reception across various fields, including musicology, Slavic studies, modern Greek studies, Classics, and film studies. By encompassing a wide variety of case studies on repertories at the margins of the Western European art music tradition, while not excluding some central European ones, this volume broadens the focus of an increasingly rich field of research in significant ways Inventing ancestry, imagining antiquity : classical Greece in Russian music / Marina Frolova-Walker From mythology to social politics : Goethe's Proserpina with music by Carl Eberwein / Lorraine Byrne Bodley On common ground? : Greek antiquity and twentieth-century Greek music / Kostas Chardas Nikolay Tcherepnin's Narcisse and the aesthetic promise of self-presence / Paulo F. de Castro Socrate in context : Satie's 'Humble homage' to the past / George Vlastos What makes a hero? : Szymanowski, Enescu and the classical plot / Jim Samson German gymnasium, and germinal Greek : Heinrich Bellermann's stage music for three tragedies by Sophocles / Gesine Schröder Nostos through the West and Nostos through the East : readings of ancient Greek music in early twentieth-century Constantinople and Athens / Katy Romanou The Odysseus myth revisited : exile and homecoming in the life and music of Nikos Skalkottas / Eva Mantzourani 'An era of ethos' : hellenic lyricism in the early twentieth-century Russian art-song / Philip Ross Bullock A Dionysiac angel : Nietzschean elements in Prokofiev's Ognennii angel / Katerina Levidou A musical way to myth : the role of music in cinematic receptions of Greek tragedy / Stella Voskaridou Economou. Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Note to the Reader Part I: Constructing and Negotiating Identities Inventing Ancestry, Imagining Antiquity: Classical Greece in Russian Music From Mythology to Social Politics: Goethe’s Proserpina with Music On Common Ground? Greek Antiquity and Twentieth-Century Greek Music Part II: Transitions and Diversions Nikolay Tcherepnin’s Narcisse and the Aesthetic Promise of Self-Presence Socrate in Context: Satie’s ‘Humble Homage’ to the Past What Makes a Hero? Szymanowski, Enescu and the Classical Plot Part III: Nostalgia and Restoration German Gymnasium, and Germinal Greek: Heinrich Bellermann’s Stage Music for Three Tragedies by Sophocles Nostos through the West and Nostos through the East: Readings of Ancient Greek Music in Early Twentieth-Century Constantinople and Athens The Odysseus Myth Revisited: Exile and Homecoming in the Life and Music of Nikos Skalkottas Part IV: In Dialogue with Other Arts ‘An Era of Eros’: Hellenic Lyricism in the Early Twentieth-Century Russian Art-Song A Dionysiac Angel: Nietzschean Elements in Prokofiev’s Ognennii angel A Musical Way to Myth: The Role of Music in Cinematic Receptions of Greek Tragedy Notes on the Contributors Index of Names