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Music and death : funeral music, memory and re-evaluating life /
"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. Music & Death investigates different musical engagements with death. Its eleven essays examine a broad range of genres...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Facets of ritual : requiems and other funeral music. Construction and instruction : Medieval and early modern Masses for the dead / Miriam Wendling ; Commemorating the elite body in the fifteenth century / Alexandra Buckle ; Types of mercy and non-liturgical dramaturgy : the musical requiem as a concert piece / Wolfgang Marx
- Part II. Negotiating memory and loss. 'Aber auf einmal' : death, distance, and intimacy in song / Matt BaileyShea ; Manifestations of death in the music of Johannes Brahms / Nicole Grimes ; Through the tears of others : staging grief and French identity in interwar musical theatre / Jillian C. Rogers ; Leaving the table : intimations of mortality in Leonard Cohen's late and posthumous work / Richard Elliott
- Part III. Reflecting death to re-evaluate life. Death in music and music in death : reflections on mortality and listening in the performances of Marino Formenti / Peter Edwards and Uta Sailer ; The day the music died : searching for new practices of sharing in the aftermath of the death of a composer in western art music / Mieko Kanno ; Imagining an undead carnival : psychobilly fantasies of an idealistic afterlife / Kimberly Kattari ; The B-52s, loss, and defiance / Fred E. Maus.