The Muse as Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination
- Author: Downes, Stephen
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- The Muse as immaculate beloved: Stendhal's 'crystallization' process and listening to Rossini and Beethoven
- Schumann, Chopin, the fan of Eros, and the beloved's kiss
- The Muse as temptress and redemptress: Sibelius's early symphonic narratives
- Mahler's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies: Idyllic fantasies, the sublime, formal mastery, and processes of mourning and reparation
- 'She dies': Trauma and erotic elegy in BartA(3)k's pre-First World War music
- Names, chords and the 'pale princess' in Debussy's musical language of love
- Poulenc's erotics of humour, melancholy, abjection and redemption
- Names, chords and Lulu's portrait as Muse
- Fetishistic 'Inventions on a Chord': Szymanowski, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Weill and Poulenc
- Bibliography
- Index.