The Songs of Michel Beheim; A Selection

ISBN-13: 9781800795327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 328 str.

Irmengard Rauch; James Ogier

Opis

Michel Beheim (1420-ca. 1474), composer of almost 500 song-poems, explored a wide thematic and stylistic range, including lyrics on history and love, politics and travel, morals and warfare, Dracula and ocean monsters. This new collection of annotated translations of his work offers an introduction to his vast oeuvre.

Spis treści

Contents: Zugweise - Kurze Weise - Osterweise - Verkehrte Weise - Hofweise - Slegweise - Lange Weise.

O autorze

After undergraduate work in German at Lehigh University and the University of Bonn, JAMES OGIER received his doctorate in Germanic Philology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and served, until his retirement in 2018, as Professor of German and Linguistics at Roanoke College in Salem, VA. He has previously translated and edited Michel Beheim's History of Trieste (2018) and published extensively on Beheim and Oswald von Wolkenstein. His other interests range from the Scandinavian languages (especially Danish, Icelandic, and Finnish) to the study of Maya glyphs and culture, around which he has developed several undergraduate courses, including travel courses. He has received Fulbright grants to Denmark and Germany. He currently resides in New Jersey.