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Bucchianeri discusses familiar topics that include Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, William Hogarth's painting The Rake's Lev e featuring Handel, a selection of Beethoven's symphonies, Liszt's Faust Symphony and the conception of the symphonic poem genre, Orientalism and Debussy's progressive style, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera as an example of the 'Musical Theatre Renaissance'. In Many instances, the author offers different theories that are original, informative and will appeal to all music lovers, professionals and amateurs, or those who wish to explore music philosophy in general. Admirers of Hogarth and his artwork will also find A Compendium of Essays interesting due to a novel interpretation of The Rake's Lev e from a musical perspective. Illustration and musical examples are included in several of the essays, enriching the author's analytical theories and philosophical observations. 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In the Third and and Fifth Symphonies Beethoven expanded on the sublime style to epic proportions; in the Sixth he integrated the concept that 'all things sublime are both ancient and new, as in nature.' By the Ninth, Beethoven turned to the concept of the sublime as unfathomable as the heavens. Here the author offers an interpretation of the Ninth in relation to Beethoven's character and philosophies. 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