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Subject(s)

• Music—19th century—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Music—20th century—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Music—21 st century—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Medievalism [Browse]
• Music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Music—Medieval influences [Browse]

Editor

• Meyer, Stephen C. [Browse]
• Yri, Kirsten [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"Medievalism-broadly construed as the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages-has left a powerful mark in both art music and popular music culture of the past two centuries. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the growing field of medievalism in music by bringing together international scholars to explore a wide variety of past and present genres in which medievalism is present. The handbook is organized into six sections and takes up musical topics in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, in genres as far reaching as opera, orchestral music, film, musicals, heavy metal, folk rock, and video games"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-784) and index.

Contents

• Section 1, Romanticizing the medieval : the longing for the Middle Ages in the nineteenth century. Medievalisms in Early Nineteenth-Century German Thought / Laura K. T. Stokes. From Knight Errant to Family Man : Romantic Medievalism and Domesticity in Brahms's Romanzen aus L. Tieck's Magelone, op. 33 (1865-1869) / Marie Sumner Lott. Liszt's Medievalist Modernism / Balázs Mikusi. Soldiers and Censors : Verdi's Medieval Imagination / Liana Püschel. The Distant Past as Mirror and Metaphor : Portraying Medievalism in Historical French Grand Operas / Diana R. Hallman. Medievalism and Regionalist Identity in Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys / Elinor Olin. Romantic Medievalist Nationalism in Schumann's Genoveva, Then and Now / Michael S. Richardson. Richard Wagner's Medieval Visions / Barbara Eichner
• Section 2, Performing the Middle Ages. "What England Has Done for a Thousand Years" : Medievalism in Christmas Lessons and Carols Services / Jacob Sagrans. Medieval Folk in the Revivals of David Munrow / Edward Breen. Re-sounding Carl Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc / Donald Greig
• Section 3, Medievalism and Compositional Practice in the Twentieth Century. Medievalism and Antiromanticism in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana / Kirsten Yri. Past Tense : Creative Medievalism in the Music of Margaret Lucy Wilkins / Lisa Colton. Hucbald's Fifths and Vaughan Williams's Mass : The New Medieval in Britain Between the Wars / Deborah Heckert. The Return of Ars subtilior? : Rhythmic Complexity in the Chantilly Codex and in Selected Twentieth-Century Works / Aleksandra Vojčić. Miserere : Arvo Pärt and the Medieval Present / Laura Dolp. The Postmodern Troubadour / Anne Stone
• Section 4, Reimagining the Medieval Woman. Tolling Bells and Otherworldly Voices : Joan of Arc's Sonic World in the Early Twentieth Century / Elizabeth Dister. Medievalism and Rued Langgaard's Romantic Image of Queen Dagmar / Nils Holger Petersen. Nature, reason and Light in Vision--Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen / Jennifer Bain. Disciplining Guinevere : Courtly Love and the Arthurian Tradition from Henry Purcell to Donovan Leitch / Gillian L. Gower
• Section 5, Echoes of the Middle Ages in Folk, Rock, and Metal. Early Music and Popular Music : Medievalism, Nostalgia, and the Beatles / Elizabeth Randell Upton. "Ramble On" : Medievalism as a Nostalgic Practice in Led Zeppelin's Use of J.R.R. Tolkien / Caitlin Vaughn Carlos. A Gothic Romance : Neomedieval Echoes of Fin'amor in Gothic and Doom Metal / Ross Hagen. Viking Metal / Simon Trafford. Medievalism and Identity Construction in Pagan Folk Music / Scott R. Troyer
• Section 6, Medievalism of the Screen. From the Music of the Ainur to the Music of the Voice-over : Music and Medievalism in The Lord of the Rings / Stephen C. Meyer. Faith, Fear, Silence, and Music in Ingmar Bergman's Medieval Vision of The Seventh Seal and The Virgin Spring / Alexis Luko. Hope Against Fate or Fata Morgana? : Music and Mythopoiesis in Boorman's Excalibur / David Clem. The Many Musical Medievalisms of Disney / John Haines. Evil Medieval : Chant and the New Dark Spirituality of Vietnam-Era Film in America / James Deaville. Fantasy Medievalism and Screen Media / James Cook. Gaming the Medievalist World in Harry Potter / Karen M. Cook.

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ISBN

• 9780190658441 ((hardback))
• 0190658444

LCCN

2019955815

OCLC

1109413253

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