German settings of Ossianic texts, 1840-1880 /
"The ten solo German settings on texts attributed to the Celtic bard Ossian contained in this edition reflect the nineteenth-century Romantic or gothic interest in Scotland. Their composers range from the well-known (Loewe and Donizetti) to the obscure (Bürgel, Taubert, and Hill). These works f...
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| Format: | Musical Score Book |
| Language: | German |
| Language Notes: | German words, translated from the English of James Macpherson, also printed as texts with parallel English on pages xxx-xl. |
| Published: |
Middleton, Wisconsin :
A-R Editions, Inc.,
[2025]
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| Series: | Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ;
v. 98. |
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| Summary: | "The ten solo German settings on texts attributed to the Celtic bard Ossian contained in this edition reflect the nineteenth-century Romantic or gothic interest in Scotland. Their composers range from the well-known (Loewe and Donizetti) to the obscure (Bürgel, Taubert, and Hill). These works fracture the unitary conception of the German lied in their borrowing from the melodrama and romance genres, illustrating various strategies for setting a ballad text and often communicating through conventionally defined musical styles or topics. Yet particularly through the obsessive re-setting of Herder's translation of "Darthula's Burial Song," the composers of these settings show themselves to be concerned with preserving a German patrimony established by eighteenth-century views of Ossian as a window to a Germanic culture lost to an illiterate past. The settings themselves are both singable and emotionally moving, and their variable and flexible performance contexts help us reimagine nineteenth-century performance practice and would enrich modern recital programs. Moreover, new editions of this music contribute to the slow rehabilitation of Ossian's fraught reception history and to the overcoming of the post-Romantic rejection of excess emotionalism"-- |
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| Item Description: | For voice and piano, 1st work includes a choral segment. Edited principally from the first editions. Includes introduction and critical report in English. |
| Physical Description: | 1 score (xl, 111 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781987209396 1987209397 |
| ISSN: | 0193-5364 ; |