The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism
Stephen C. Meyer, "The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism "
English | ISBN: 0190658444 | 2020 | 848 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 0190658444 | 2020 | 848 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
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
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