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Preliminary material -- PROLEGOMENA -- TEXT AND CONTEXT -- TRADITION AND DESIGN -- EPIC AND EVANGEL -- STRUCTURE AND MEANING -- SOUND AND SENSE -- POPULARITY AND INFLUENCE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- GENERAL INDEX.
The relationship between music and religion has long been a clearly delineated one. Up to the late Middle Ages, music employed for ritual expressions of faith in sacred contexts was contrasted with secular music, then mostly played in open spaces. The former was believed to aid in the communication of divine truths, while the latter was suspected of arousing sensuality and thus potentially leading away from the spiritual perspective of life. In subsequent centuries, music entered first the courtly salons, then the concert hall and the home. Such music, created for virtuoso performance or for the enjoyment in private chambers, occasionally made room for an expression of religious experiences ...
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Emanuel Geibel ist einer der bekanntesten Sp tromantiker Deutschlands, Namensgeber f r Schulen und Strassen und Ehrenb rger der Hansestadt L beck. Er schloss Freundschaft mit Chamisso, Arnim und Eichendorff, hatte Beziehungen zu Ernst Curtius, Karl Marx, Karl Gr n und Moritz Carri re. Seine Gedichte fanden Anklang beim preu ischen K nig Friedrich Wilhelm IV., von dem er eine lebenslange Pension erhielt - die ihm sp ter jedoch wieder entzogen wurde. Von Maximilian II. erhielt Geibel eine Ehrenprofessur f r deutsche Literatur und Poetik Carl Leimbach rekonstruiert in dieser Biographie die Lebensabschnitte Emanuel Geibels. Geibels Leben, von der Kindheit ber die Lehrjahre und seine Wanderzeit 1...
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