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Edited by Simone Ciolfi.
Paperback (Soft Cover).
Ad Parnassum Studies.
Essays by Mathias
Auclair, Jean-Christophe
Branger, Simone Ciolfi,
Matthew Franke, Vincent
Giroud, Stephanie Klauk,
Hugh Macdonald, Jurgen
Maehder, Claire Paolacci,
Jann Pasler, Marco
Pollaci, Alban Ramaut,
Manuela Rita, Tommaso
Sabbatini, Sabine Teulon
L. Classical. Books and
Journals. Ut Orpheus #APS
7. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.APS-7).
ISBN 9788881094912.
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inches.
Saggi di
Mathias Auclair,
Jean-Christophe Branger,
Simone Ciolfi, Matthew
Franke, Vincent Giroud,
Stephanie Klauk, Hugh
Macdonald, Jürgen
Maehder, Claire Paolacci,
Jann Pasler, Marco
Pollaci, Alban Ramaut,
Manuela Rita, Tommaso
Sabbatini, Sabine Teulon
Lardic
The
Mediterranean world
represented an inspiring
cultural and social
environment Jules
Massenet. It provided
him, in his operas and
instrumental music, with
characters and scenes
that enabled him to
interpret the spiritual
and psychological
tensions of the late
Romantic period.
For
Massenet the
Mediterranean world had
broad boundaries in both
time and place; it
included Roman history,
the antique Orient, and
also the South of Spain,
Italy and France, with
their magical, sometimes
sinful, nuances.
Consequently,
Massenet’s
engagement with
Mediterranean culture is
dual-faceted,
encompassing antique
Roman and Oriental
societies, with their
mysterious, sensual
suggestions useful for
passionate opera plots,
and contemporary
Mediterranean societies,
suitable for a more
picturesque
approach.
This book
reflects these two
tendencies. The essays
analyse the basic
duality, but also
introduce an additional
viewpoint: the reception
of Massenet’s
music in his contemporary
Mediterranean world. The
analytical approaches
represent an enquiry into
the reception of
Mediterranean
compositional theory in
Massenet’s
training.
The figure
of Massenet and his music
has been neglected by
scholarship over the last
two decades. This book
aims to fill this gap
with a subject not tied
exclusively to music but
encompassing the impact
of a specific cultural
dimension on the composer
and his music. This
dimension is broad in
time and place, but no
less specific for this
breadth. This novel
approach is one we have
tried to maintain
throughout the
contributions. Although
the enquiry is
never-ending, the
contributors hope that
their combined effort as
embodied in this book
might provide a basis for
further research.
Massenet Romantic
