Books written by Stephen Rumph
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The Faure Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861-1921
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Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works
His best friend, Theodor von Hippel, was a prominent reformer and the author of Friedrich Wilhelm's wartime appeal "An mein Volk." Hippel was the model for the poet-warrior Ferdinand in Der Dichter und der Komponist, whose setting was ...
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Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
9 Immanuel Kant summed up the new value of touch in his Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (1788): “Empiricism is based on touch ... touch (or even beat) her.11 And in the banquet scene, the living statue demands Giovanni's hand in pledge.
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Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works
Rumph's argument will be resisted by Hoffmann's many heirs; but it is most compelling, not least because it answers so many long-standing questions about 'the music itself' and clears up so many misconceptions about the nature of musical ...
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Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
In “Don Giovanni”: Myths of Seduction and Betrayal, ed. Jonathan Miller, 62–69. New York: Schocken Books, 1990. Baker, Nancy Kovaleff, and Thomas Christensen, trans. Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German ...
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The Faure Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861–1921
This book offers not only close readings of Fauré’s musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.