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This thesis consists of a critical portion which traces the relationship of music and poetry throughout history, analyzes the songs of 1960s musicians under the lenses of poetry movements (Jim Morrison as meditative poetry, Leonard Cohen as confessional poetry, and Townes Van Za…

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) was a Spanish-born polymath who, though mostly remembered for his historically inspired fashion designs, was first trained as a painter in Paris and would become a lighting and set designer, photographer, costume designer, and inventor. Work…

This dissertation aims to show how the relationship between reification and music discloses problems in modern philosophy and critical musicology. In chapter one, I attempt to articulate the relationship between reification and music in order to put forward a vision for a non-re…

This paper examines the question of what it means to be German. Its goal is to show a historic comparison between what was published in the 19 th -century and what has changed since the end of WWII. The basis of the first part will be, among others, Richard Wagner's article "Was…