Format:
1 online resource (335 pages)
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Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:
9781805430216
Content:
Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we experience death; it forms a central part of death rituals, consoles survivors, and celebrates the deceased.
Content:
Part I -- 1 Construction and Instruction: Medieval and Early Modern Masses for the Dead -- 2 Commemorating the Elite Body in the Fifteenth Century -- 3 Types of Mercy and Non-liturgical Dramaturgy: The Musical Requiem as a Concert Piece -- Part II -- 4 'Aber auf einmal…': Death, Distance, and Intimacy in Song -- 5 Manifestations of Death in the Music of Johannes Brahms -- 6 Through the Tears of Others: Staging Grief and French Identity in Interwar Musical Theatre -- 7 Leaving the Table: Intimations of Mortality in Leonard Cohen's Late and Posthumous Work -- Part III -- 8 Death in Music and Music in Death: Reflections on Mortality and Listening in the Performances of Marino Formenti -- 9 The Day the Music Died: Searching for New Practices of Sharing in the Aftermath of the Death of a Composer in Western Art Music -- 10 Imagining an Undead Carnival: Psychobilly Fantasies of an Idealistic Afterlife -- 11 The B-52s, Loss, and Defiance -- Bibliography.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781837650644
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Music and death Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2023 ISBN 9781837650644
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Musik
;
Tod
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Tod
;
Verlust
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Erinnerung
;
Geschichte
;
Requiem-Vertonung
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Bestattungsmusik
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Marx, Wolfgang 1967-
