Music in the Apocalyptic Mode

2023-04-03 Literary Criticism

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Release : 2023-04-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Music in the Apocalyptic Mode written by . This book was released on 2023-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

End-Game

2024-09-02 Games & Activities

Author : Lorenzo DiTommaso
Release : 2024-09-02
Genre : Games & Activities
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Download or read book End-Game written by Lorenzo DiTommaso. This book was released on 2024-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject of apocalyptic video games. Its two dozen papers engage the subject comprehensively, from game design to player experience, and from the perspectives of content, theme, sound, ludic textures, and social function. The volume offers scholars, students, and general readers a thorough overview of this unique expression of the apocalyptic imagination in popular culture, and novel insights into an important facet of contemporary digital society.

Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama

2023-11-27 Literary Criticism

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Release : 2023-11-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama written by . This book was released on 2023-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano

2023-11-27 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Małgorzata Gamrat
Release : 2023-11-27
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano written by Małgorzata Gamrat. This book was released on 2023-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Music in the Ice

2012-09-27 Literary Collections

Author : Stephen Watson
Release : 2012-09-27
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book The Music in the Ice written by Stephen Watson. This book was released on 2012-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Stephen Watson turns to the writers who have endured for him; to the places that have formed him; and always to the nature of writing and literature itself. The range is remarkable: he moves from Leonard Cohen to Dante, from Albert Camus to Allen Ginsberg, not excepting Czeslaw Milosz and T.S. Eliot. Closer to home, there are essays on Robben Island and the meaning of the Cedarberg. More personally, movingly, a final section of the book returns to the site of a love affair, the birth of a daughter, and what it is that defines his native city, Cape Town. Whatever Watson touches on, he gives substance to the line from Pasternak that provides this collection with its title: 'the music in the ice'. In Watson's hands the essay form itself becomes an instance of that music. Here is a book that demonstrates again why Justin Cartwright has called Stephen Watson 'South Africa's foremost essayist'.

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