Myth, Song, and Music Education: The Case of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and Swann's "The Road Goes Ever On"

Autor/in	Jorgensen, Estelle R.
Titel	Myth, Song, and Music Education: The Case of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and Swann's "The Road Goes Ever On"
Quelle	In: Journal of Aesthetic Education, 40 (2006) 3, S.1-21 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8510
Schlagwörter	Novels; Mythology; Singing; Music; Music Education; English Literature + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Novel; Roman; Mythologie; Gesang; Musik; Musikerziehung; Englische literatur
Abstract	In this article I explore how myth and song intersect in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy--"The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers," and "The Return of the King"--and Donald Swann's song cycle setting of Tolkien texts, "The Road Goes Ever On." In so doing I am drawn back to Tolkien's "The Hobbit," the novel from which "The Lord of the Rings" grew, and in the way of myth, I go back to the beginning to see what is there. After sketching some important themes in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," and commenting as I go on Swann's musical setting of Tolkien's poems, I note several implications for music education. (Contains 74 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10