Inaugural-Disseration - Breslau.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, 1967. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index.

The poetry of Sumer, inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets dating from 2000 B.C., is considered humanity's earliest written literature. Hymns To Inanna is a three-movement, mixed media work based on adapted English translations from ancient Sumerian text. The text is sung by SATB choir and musically illustrated by harp, flutes, percussion, and computer-generated sound (on tape). My musical setting displays these hymns not as a reflection of antiquity but as a timeless expression of spiritual thought. Certain elements of the composition evoke associations with early culture and music. These components, however, are transformed or merged with musical characteristics of other eras, idioms, and forms thus representing a conceptual and stylistic "bridge" between past, present, and future.

The author's Habilitationsschrift, Theol. Fak., Würzburg, 1917. / "Vorliegende Abhandlung ist als 1. Teil einer Reihe von Studien ... welche das Verhältnis der Psalmen zur sumerisch-akkadischen und zur ägyptischen Hymnen-literatur möglichst allseitig behandeln sollen."--Vorwort. "Verzeichnis der hauptsächlich benützten Literatur": p. [vii]-x.

The author's Habilitationsschrift, Theol. Fak., Würzburg, 1917. / "Vorliegende Abhandlung ist als 1. Teil einer Reihe von Studien ... welche das Verhältnis der Psalmen zur sumerisch-akkadischen und zur ägyptischen Hymnen-literatur möglichst allseitig behandeln sollen."--Vorwort. "Verzeichnis der hauptsächlich benützten Literatur": p. [vii]-x.