King Arthur in Music

List of contents

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

About the author

Richard Barber

Product details

• Authors: Richard Barber, Richard Barber
• Assisted by: Richard Barber (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2002
• EAN: 9780859917674
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-767-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 247 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Arthurian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Music / Songbooks