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.
This file is intended only for preview!
I ask you to delete the file from your hard drive after reading it.
thank for the original uploader
No comments:
Post a Comment