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Myth and Music

Frontmatter — Acknowledgements — CONTENTS — PART ONE — 1. Introduction — 2. The problematics of myth — 3. From the aesthetics of myth to the aesthetics of music — 4. Myth as a musical reconstruction — 5. The mythical and musical discourses (the narrative aspect) — 6. The mythical as seme and style in music — PART TWO — 7. Introduction: the mythical in Liszt and Slavonic music — 8. Wagner’s Siegfried — 9. Sibelius’s Kullervo — 10. Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex — 11. Conclusion — Notes — Literature — Index of referred musical works

A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky

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Hardcover – 9789027979186