Music in the Apocalyptic Mode / edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso and Colin McAllister.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DiTommaso, Lorenzo, editor.

McAllister, Colin, 1970- editor.

Series:

Word and music studies ; Volume 20.

Word and Music Studies ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalypse in music.

Music--Religious aspects.

Music.

Dies irae (Music)--History and criticism.

Dies irae (Music).

Dies irae (Medieval Latin poem).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

Co-edited by a leading scholar of apocalypticism and a professional musician, this volume explores the world of music in the apocalyptic mode from the late Middle Ages to the present day, with an emphasis on the interplay among music, lyrics, images, and performance.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Music in the Apocalyptic Mode

1 Dies irae, dies illa: Towards an Understanding of Music in the Apocalyptic Mode

1 Sites and Sources of Meaning

2 Systematic Ambiguity

3 Heuristic Ambiguity

4 Everyday Ambiguity

5 Music and Meaning in the Apocalyptic Mode

Works Cited

2 The Medieval Song of the Sibyl: An Overview

Abstract

3 Monks at the World's End

1 Introduction

2 Dramatizing Eschatology and Performing Monastic Agency

3 The Sonic World of the Play

4 Dies Irae: Origin and Appropriations

2 The Origin of the Dies Irae

3 Lyrics and Melody

4 The Dies Irae as Part of the Requiem (in Liturgical and Secular Contexts)

5 Liturgical Uses of the Dies Irae (as Part of the Requiem)

6 Non-Liturgical Uses of the Dies Irae (as Part of the Requiem)

7 The Dies Irae as an Independent Composition

8 References to the Dies Irae in Classical Music and Popular Culture

9 Classical Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

10 Film Scores

11 Popular Music

12 Conclusion

5 Mystical Unity or Earth-Shattering Events: Shifting Views

1 Family Business

2 Musical Battle Scenes

3 The Threefold Coming of Christ

4 Earth-Shattering Events

5 Battle or Wedding?

6 Messianism and (Post-)Apocalypticism in Wagner's Ring

1 Opening the Apocalyptic Space

2 Wagner's Musical End Times

3 Conclusion

7 Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten: Arnold Schoenberg as Apocalyptic Prophet

1 Prelude

2 Schoenberg and Late Romanticism

3 Expressionism and Transfiguration

4 Vision and Apocalypse

5 Second String Quartet, Op. 10 (1907-08)

6 Entrückung. Sehr langsam

7 Coda

8 The Apocalypse in African American Spirituals and Blues.

1 The Apocalypse, Death, and Eschatological Images of Heaven in Slave Spirituals

1.1 Signs of the End and the Final Judgment

1.2 Images of Death in African-American Spirituals

1.3 Visions of the Afterlife

1.4 Conclusions

2 The Apocalypse in African-American Blues

2.1 Blues on the Cataclysmic Events

2.2 Images of the Apocalypse and the Day of Doom

2.3 Images of Death in the Blues

3 General Observations and Conclusions

9 Apocalyptic Themes in the Music of Olivier Messiaen

1 Christian Themes in Messiaen's Music

2 Messiaen's Eschatology

2.1 Les corps glorieux

2.2 Quatuor pour la fin du temps

2.2.1 Musical Innovations

2.2.2 Angels and Color

2.2.3 The Abyss

2.2.4 Expressions of Eternity and Immortality

2.3 Couleurs de la cité céleste

2.4 Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

2.5 Des canyons aux étoiles...

2.5 La ville d'en-haut

2.6 Éclairs sur l'au-delà …

3 Messiaen the Evangelist

4 The Problems of Self-Expression

10 In Search of an Apocalyptic Model for Western Art Music

1 Catastrophe and "Vision Time" in …inwendig voller Figur…

2 Vision 4: Hermeneutics, Musical Form, and Techniques

3 Number Symbolism as Compositional Determinant

4 A Modernist Harmony of Praise and Distance

11 Apocalypticism in Search of Justice in Rastafari: The Case of "Ride Natty Ride"

1 Babylon System: Naming the Beast

2 Resolve and Redemption: Resisting the Beast

3 "It's the Fire": Burning the Beast

4 Conclusion: Seeking Justice, Imagining Freedom

12 Tempest: Bob Dylan's Later Life Apocalypse

1 Apocalyptic Echoes

2 Apocalyptic Structure

3 Apocalyptic Time

4 Critical Reception: An Apocalyptic Explanation

Works Cited.

13 "Land of Confusion" (Genesis, 1986 - Disturbed, 2005) and the Contemporary Apocalyptic Shift

1 A Land of Confusion: What Is 'Apocalyptic'?

2 "Land of Confusion": Video Synopsis

2.1 Intro

2.2 Verse 1

2.3 Verse 2

2.4 Pre-chorus 1

2.5 Chorus 1

2.6 Verse 3

2.7 Pre-chorus 2

2.8 Chorus 2

2.9 Bridge

2.10 Verse 4

2.11 Pre-chorus 3

2.12 Chorus 3

2.13 Chorus 4

2.14 Finale

3 "Land of Confusion" and Apocalyptic Anxiety in Popular Culture

3.1 Genesis (1986)

3.2 Disturbed (2005)

4 "Land of Confusion" and the "Apocalyptic Shift"

4.1 Genesis (1986)

4.2 Disturbed (2005)

5 Coda: 6 January 2021 and this Land of Confusion

14 End-Time Lyrics and Music in Contemporary Christian "ApokRock"

2 Evangelicalism and Evangelicals: A Brief Overview

3 Evangelical Popular Culture and CCM

4 Apocalyptic Themes and Imagery in Christian Metal Music

5 Concluding Remarks

15 Dies Irae, Dies Illa: Hip-Hop and the Apocalypse of Whiteness

1 Apocalyptic Riff

2 Apocalypse of Now

3 Apocalypse and Whiteness

4 Apocalypse on Hoof

5 Apocalypse through Hip-Hop

6 Apocalyptic Dies

16 Liberation Theology, Social Protest, and Apocalyptic Utopia in the Music of Northeast Brazil

17 Latex Apocalypse: The End of the World According to Grimes

1 Eleven Shades of Destruction

2 Superflat Apocalypticism and Apocalyptic Meaning

Part 2 Composing in the Apocalyptic Mode

18 Aeneas in the Underworld

1 A Narrative in Music

19 Apocalyptic Time and the Time of APOKATASTASIS

1 Prelude to an Ending

2 Genesis of a Musical Flow

3 Time and the Apocalyptic Worldview

4 Chiasmus and Apocalyptic Design

5 The Doctrine of Apokatastasis.

6 The Design of APOKATASTASIS

7 Proposal towards Personal Apocalypse

8 Coda (as a Beginning)

20 Music for the End Times: Wait…When?

1 Transcription and Close Reading

2 Music Composition

3 The Images and Video Animations

4 Modularity

5 Conclusion

Notes on Contributors

Plates and Figures

Plates

Figures

Index

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004537996

9004537996

OCLC:

1382694231