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.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Woodbridge : Boydell Press,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | Funeral music-History and criticism Electronic books Musik Tod Verlust Erinnerung Geschichte Requiem-Vertonung Bestattungsmusik |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (335 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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. 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (335 pages) Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele |
| ISBN: | 9781805430216 1805430211 9781837650644 1837650640 |