Music and Death : Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life / edited by Wolfgang Marx.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marx, Wolfgang, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral music--History and criticism.

Funeral music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2023.

Contents:

Intro

Music and Death

Copyright

Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Marx, Wolfgang Music and Death

ISBN:

9781805430216

1805430211

1805430203

9781805430209

Publisher Number:

99994065492

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Restricted for use by site license.