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Fort! Da!: Thinking Death In Freud And Faust, Mercer M. Greenwald Jan 2021

Fort! Da!: Thinking Death In Freud And Faust, Mercer M. Greenwald

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


The Devil Figure In Goethe, Boito, And Gounod, Shuang Yang Jan 2016

The Devil Figure In Goethe, Boito, And Gounod, Shuang Yang

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a worldwide famous master piece. It has been not only translated into many other languages, but also used as basis of other works such as opera, music piece, drama, movie and so on. After I read and watched Goethe’s Faust, Arrigo Boito’s opera Mefistofele and Charles Gounod’s opera Faust, I found that the drama’s protagonist is not the Faust what we think normally, instead it is actually another figure…


Goethe’S Faust And Nineteenth-Century Music: Liszt’S Faust Symphony, Mengying Wei Jan 2016

Goethe’S Faust And Nineteenth-Century Music: Liszt’S Faust Symphony, Mengying Wei

Senior Projects Fall 2016

This project talks about Liszt’s Faust Symphony based on Goethe’s Faust. It traces carefully through the score. After reading this project, the reader will get to know more about the Faust Symphony. As a composer, how does Liszt understand the Faust legend and how would he put a literary work into a musical composition.