The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism
Author: Stephen C. Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190658452

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three chapters from an international group of scholars explore topics ranging from the representation of the Middle Ages in nineteenth-century opera to medievalism in contemporary video game music, thereby connecting disparate musical forms across typical musicological boundaries of chronology and geography. While some chapters focus on key medievalist works such as Orff's Carmina Burana or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, others explore medievalism in the oeuvre of a single composer (e.g. Richard Wagner or Arvo Pärt) or musical group (e.g. Led Zeppelin). The topics of the individual chapters include both well-known works such as John Boorman's film Excalibur and also less familiar examples such as Eduard Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys. The authors of the chapters approach their material from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, including historical musicology, popular music studies, music theory, and film studies, examining the intersections of medievalism with nationalism, romanticism, ideology, nature, feminism, or spiritualism. Taken together, the contents of the Handbook develop new critical insights that venture outside traditional methodological constraints and provide a capstone and point of departure for future scholarship on music and medievalism.

Parisian Music-hall Ballet, 1871-1913

Parisian Music-hall Ballet, 1871-1913
Author: Sarah Gutsche-Miller
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580464424

This pioneering study of ballets staged in Parisian music halls brings to light a vibrant dance culture central to the renewal of French choreography at the fin de siècle.

The Book of Emma

The Book of Emma
Author: Marie-Celie Agnant
Publisher: Insomniac Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2009-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1897414064

One of the biggest stumbling blocks we hit when setting out to make our dreams come true is appreciating what is going well. Most of us have an unfortunate tendency to dwell on the problems rather than on the good things in our lives ... and then we wonder why things just seem to keep getting worse instead of better. In The Power of Appreciation in Everyday Life, psychologist Noelle Nelson explains how you can achieve success in every area of your life through transforming your beliefs with appreciation.

From Berlin to the Burdekin

From Berlin to the Burdekin
Author: David Robert Walker
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Papers on Ludwig Becker, Eugene von Guerard, Carl Strehlow , the Frobenius Institute and the representation of Aborigines annotated separately.

French Opera at the Fin de Siècle

French Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Steven Huebner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2006-02-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780199719921

This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.

The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930

The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2006-08-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 052185167X

An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A Companion to Epistemology

A Companion to Epistemology
Author: Jonathan Dancy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781444315097

With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology. Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of 296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field Includes 20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologists Contains 10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology

Opera Acts

Opera Acts
Author: Karen Henson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107004268

Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.

Satie the Bohemian

Satie the Bohemian
Author: Steven Moore Whiting
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1999-02-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0191584525

Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music. Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies. He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall. From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.