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The Great God Pan is an 1894 horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the newspaper The Whirlwind in 1890
The Great God Pan, a Choral Ballet for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (Sheffield Festival 1920) The Song of Songs for soloists, double chorus and orchestra (started in 1912 completed 1922; text: Book of Solomon, Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester, 1922, then Dorothy Silk, Frank Mullings, Norman Allin, Hallé, composer, 10 March 1927)
Justinus Primitive produced the Pan-inspired album Praise Pan, Great God Pan, and the songs "On Becoming Water", "Praise Pan, Great God Pan", and "Transformation Mantra". In "Joueur de flute" by Albert Roussel, one of the four movements is named after Pan. "Dryades et Pan" is the last of three Myths for violin and piano, Op. 30, by Karol ...
"Sweet, piercing sweet was the music of Pan's pipe" reads the caption on this depiction of Pan (by Walter Crane) Representations of Pan on fourth-century BC gold and silver Pantikapaion coins. In two late Roman sources, Hyginus [ 51 ] and Ovid , [ 52 ] Pan is substituted for the satyr Marsyas in the theme of a musical competition ( agon ), and ...
Carl Gustav Boberg (16 August 1859 – 7 January 1940) was a Swedish poet, preacher, government official and member of parliament, best known for writing the Swedish-language poem "O Store Gud" ('O Great God') from which the English language-hymn "How Great Thou Art" is derived.
The text, titled Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan (The Contest between Phoebus and Pan), is based on the "Ears of a Donkey" story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and mocks unsophisticated music in favour of a more intelligent composition style.
A reference to another Palodes is in Plutarch's De defectu oraculorum ("Obsolescence of Oracles") [2] of which a common reading is that the Greek god Pan is dead. During the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37), Plutarch records, the news of Pan's death came to one Thamus, a sailor on his way to Italy by way of the islands of Paxi .
The Great God Pan, front and back, in 1902 The sculpture depicts the Greek god Pan , a half-man, half-goat deity associated with pastoral living, rustic music , and carnality . Barnard's Pan is mature and strongly muscled, with a long tangled beard, the ears and cloven hooves of a goat, but no horns or tail.