'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Book Description
‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.

Music in the Apocalyptic Mode

Music in the Apocalyptic Mode PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004537996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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In this volume, the first panoramic study of music in the apocalyptic mode, an international and trans-disciplinary array of scholars and composers explore the resonance of the ancient biblical Revelation of John across the centuries in musical works as diverse as El Cant de la Sibil·la, the Dies Irae, cantatas and oratorios by Bach and Telemann, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, African American Spirituals, Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Christian “ApokRock,” Hip-hop, Grimes’s album Miss Anthropocene, and the songs of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. This innovative volume will engage scholars, students, and all those interested in the intersection of music, religion, history, and popular culture.

Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano

Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano PDF Author: Małgorzata Gamrat
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004548866
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt’s songs for voice and piano, which remain little known to scholars, artists, and music lovers alike. The objective is to present Liszt’s songs in all their complexity and diversity as well as identifying the key elements of the composer’s broadly understood song-writing technique – both those that make him unique and those that relate him to the European tradition. This approach also makes it possible to shed light on a major though previously neglected aspect of the composer’s workshop, namely, his work with the poetic text, which to Liszt was just as important as the musical setting.

Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama

Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004549609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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This collection offers an in-depth study of music’s narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as the BBC, RAI, ABC, WDR and SWR, from early radio to the medium’s postwar golden age and contemporary productions. Not limited to classical or popular music, the chapters also pay attention to electronic varieties and musical uses of language, in addition to intermedial exchanges with other art forms such as theatre, opera and film. In doing so, the present volume sits at the crossroads of various disciplines: musicology, narratology, history, literary, media, sound and radio studies.

Arts of Incompletion

Arts of Incompletion PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004467122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Book Description
Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history, and particularly the idea of the fragment became a central element of Romantic art which continued being of high relevance to the various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics.

Orfeo

Orfeo PDF Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443422924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The author of the National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Echo Maker, Richard Powers “may well be one of the smartest novelists now writing” (LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home DIY microbiology lab--the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear’s ability to hear--has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over. His days in hiding provoke memories of a turbulent century of musical turf wars and cause Els to reflect on a life spent chasing after transcendent sounds to the bewilderment of an indifferent public. As the national hysteria for safety erupts again in the face of this latest threat, Els--the “Bioterrorist Bach”--feeling the noose around him tighten, embarks on a cross-country trip to visit the people in his past who have most shaped his failed musical journey. Through the help of these people--his ex-wife, his daughter and his long-time artistic collaborator-- Els comes up with a plan to turn this disastrous collision with the security state into one last, resonant artwork that might reach an audience beyond his wildest dreams. Inspired by Steve Kurtz, the bio-artist wrongly arrested for terrorism by the FBI, Orfeo probes the boundary between stifling safety and reckless, releasing danger. It explores the varieties of human hunger, in particular the desire to hear more and to make meaning where there is none. Finally, the book is a meditation on that most endangered and priceless of human resources: attention.

Choice Literature

Choice Literature PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Dwight's Journal of Music

Dwight's Journal of Music PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Monthly musical record

Monthly musical record PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Dwight's Journal of Music. A Paper of Art and Literature

Dwight's Journal of Music. A Paper of Art and Literature PDF Author: John Sullivan Dwight
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385379369
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.