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Music, landscape and the sound of place: on hearing Delius's Song of the High Hills
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One of the most poignant scenes in Ken Russell’s 1968 film Delius: Song of Summer evocatively depicts the ailing composer being carried in a wicker chair to the summit of the mountain behind his Norwegian cabin. From here, Delius can gaze one final time across the broad Gudbrandsdal and watch the sun set behind the distant Norwegian fells. Contemplating the centrality of Norway in Delius’s output, however, raises more pressing questions of musical meaning, representation, and our relations...
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- University of California Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Musicology Journal website
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 11-44
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
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1533-8347
- ISSN:
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0277-9269
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608582
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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Published as Music, Landscape, and the Sound of Place
On Hearing Delius’s Song of the High Hills, Daniel M. Grimley, The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 33 No. 1, Winter 2016; (pp. 11-44) DOI: 10.1525/jm.2016.33.1.11. © 2016 by the Regents of the University of California. Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
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