{"id":333,"date":"2017-12-03T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=333"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:43:01","slug":"allison-keeney-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Allison Keeney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musical Influences in Middle Earth<\/span><\/p>\n

When J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle Earth in his book The Hobbit, he was influenced by previous literary, musical works. Tolkien was a scholar of the epic Beowulf and used this tale to influence his famous story. He was also influenced by The Song of Nibelungs and other Norse and Germanic sagas. When Tolkien was a young man, before he started writing The Hobbit, Richard Wagner and his opera, The Ring of Nibelung, was very popular in Europe. There are many similarities between Wagner and Tolkien\u2019s works, but Tolkien claims that \u201cboth rings were round, and there the resemblance ceases.\u201d This presentation will be exploring the musical influences that Tolkien drew from to create his stories in Middle Earth, as well as look at the similarities between Wagner\u2019s opera and Tolkien\u2019s books.<\/span><\/p>\n

MUS 321, Survey of Music History<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynn Kane<\/span><\/p>\n

Banquet Room, Poster #5<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1 – 3 PM<\/span><\/p>\n

Return to schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musical Influences in Middle Earth When J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle Earth in his book The Hobbit, he was influenced by previous literary, musical works. Tolkien was a scholar of the epic Beowulf and used this tale to influence his famous story. He was also influenced by The Song of Nibelungs and other Norse and Germanic … Continue reading “Allison Keeney”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[121,796,675,61,797,769],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2017","tag-honors","tag-kane-l","tag-keeney-a","tag-mus","tag-mus-321","tag-poster-fall-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}