King Arthur in Music

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-85991-767-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 204 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Arthurian Studies

A survey of the influence of the Arthurian legends on musical works.

King Arthur in Music is the first book to be devoted to the subject. The range of musical material is too wide for a single author to tackle satisfactorily, and the nine contributors to this volume are experts in the very different fields involved. The first essay, by Robert Shay, deals with the late seventeenth century semi-opera King Arthur, while the final essay by William Everitt looks at the appearances of Arthur on stage and screen and the scores that have accompanied these. Between these two extremes, the main body of the book deals largely with opera as we now understand it, from Wagner's 'Tristan' and 'Parsifal' to Harrison Birtwistle's 'Sir Gawain and the GreenKnight'. Some works have never been performed, such as Hubert Parry's 'Guenever' and Rutland Boughton's Arthurian cycle, while others have only recently been staged or revived, such as Isaac Albeníz's 'Merlin' and Ernest Chausson's 'Le roi Artus', both striking post-Wagnerian works in very different styles: 'Merlin', for instance, begins with a passage based on Gregorian chant. The range of music is therefore wider than one might at first suspect, and other aspects of Arthurian music are brought out in the introduction, which is a general survey of the field, and in Jerome V.Reel's comprehensive listing of Arthurian musical items which is printed as an appendix. Contributors ROBERT ADLINGTON, RICHARD BARBER, WALTER A. CLARK, JEREMY DIBBLE, WILLIAM A. EVERITT, TONY HUNT, MICHAEL HURD, JEROME V. REEL, NIGEL SIMEONE, ROBERT SHAY, DEREK WATSON.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barber, Richard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Watson, Derek

Dibble, Jeremy

Reel, Jerome V

Hurd, Michael

Adlington, Robert

Shay, Robert

Hunt, Tony

Clark, Walter

Everett, William A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dryden and Purcell's King Arthur: Legend and Politics on the Restoration Stage - Robert Shay
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde and Parsifal - Derek Watson
Parry's Guenever: Trauma and Catharsis - Jeremy Dibble
King Arthur and the Wagner Cult in Spain: Isaac Albéniz's Opera Merlin - Walter Clark
Ernest Chausson's Le Roi Arthus - Tony Hunt
Rutland Boughton's Arthurian Cycle - Michael Hurd
An Exotic Tristan in Boston: the first performance of Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie -
'Good lodging': Harrison Birtwistle's reception of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Robert Adlington
King Arthur in Popular Musical Theatre and Film - William A Everett
A Listing of Arthurian Music - Jerome V Reel

Über Autor(innen)

Dibble, Jeremy
JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).

Barber, Richard
RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.