Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century

Dusting Out the Corners

Alan Mauritz Swanson, Bertil Van Boer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

173 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1104-6 (ISBN)

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When dusting out corners, we often find things once thought useful, but perhaps not useful enough to keep on display or ready to hand. If we dust in a time and place distant from that in which they were once used, we may be surprised by their vitality, which may also lead us to ask why we swept them into that corner in the first place. The articles in this book look at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, an overlooked opera, three Swedish composers of the period, and illustrations in a popular book. They are intended to surprise us with the residual vitality of what one can find in those dusty corners. The choice of one place and time to sweep within this book is purely practical and not exclusive; there remain many other dusty corners to be swept.

Alan Mauritz Swanson is Professor Emeritus in Scandinavian Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago, USA, in comparative literature and has also studied musicology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His studies have included Swedish immigration to North America and its literature, and work on the Swedish theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries. His honours include being appointed as Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.Bertil van Boer is Professor Emeritus in Musicology-Theory at Western Washington University, USA. A conductor, scholar, and composer, his work includes the Historical Dictionary of Music in the Classical Period and monographs on Joseph Martin Kraus. He is a member of the Swedish Royal Musical Academy.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-0364-1104-4 / 1036411044
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1104-6 / 9781036411046
Zustand	Neuware