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Beyond Fingal's Cave

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Beyond Fingal's Cave

By James Porter

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About the book

Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus ...Show more

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ISBN

9781580469456

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

Beyond Fingal's Cave

Format

Hardcover

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