Music and Death : Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life /: Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Wolfgang Marx.
• Editors: Marx, Wolfgang
• Contents: Intro -- Music and Death -- 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
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2023
• Copyright Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 781.5/88; Funeral music -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1805430211; 1805430203; 9781805430209; 9781805430216
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2023).
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