Elements of Shamanic Mythology in E. T. A. Hoffman's Romantic Conception of Music
Description:
The musicians in E. T. A. Hoffmann's tales and essays demonstrate traits remarkably similar to those of shamans. Hoffmann uses the same imagery to describe the journey of the composer into the "realm of dreams," where he receives inspiration, as the shaman uses to describe the spirit world to which he journeys via music. Hoffmann was a major force in changing the 18th-century view of music as an "innocent luxury" to the 19th-century idea of music as a higher art. As a German Romantic,author, he…
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Date:
December 1993
Creator:
Miller, Harry A. W. (Harry Alfred Werner)
Partner:
UNT Libraries