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Giving Voice to Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Giving Voice to Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-28
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

The lyrics of medieval "courtly love" songs are characteristically self-conscious. Giving Voice to Love investigates similar self-consciousness in the musical settings. Moments and examples where voice, melody, rhythm, form, and genre seem to comment on music itself tell us about musical responses to the courtly chanson tradition, and musical reflections on the complexity of self-expression.

Listening to the Sirens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Listening to the Sirens

Judith Perraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with an examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens, she goes on to consider musical creatures, gods, humans and music-addled listeners.

Listening to the Sirens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Listening to the Sirens

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In this fresh and innovative study, Judith A. Peraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with a close examination of the mythology surrounding the sirens-whose music seduced Ulysses into a state of mind in which he would gladly sacrifice everything for the illicit pleasures promised in their song-Peraino goes on to consider the musical creatures, musical gods and demigods, musical humans, and music-addled listeners who have been associated with behavior that breaches social conventions. She deftly employs a sop.

Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 445

Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle explores the 13th-century composer’s music, drama, and poetry in the context of his urban environment. The authors use approaches from musicology, history, art history, and literary studies.

Medieval Music in Practice
  • Language: en

Medieval Music in Practice

Richard Crocker once wrote "we understand many things about the history of music--specifically its development--better from the earlier periods." Since his first publications in 1958, Crocker pioneered a radically phenomenological and critical approach to the study of early music and musical style. Medieval Music in Practice: Studies in Honor of Richard Crocker brings together eleven essays that take up Crocker's call to consider the continuity of medieval and later musical practices in performance, composition, and pedagogy. Two introductory essays open this collection. Judith Peraino surveys the disciplinary questions that emerge in Crocker's work: What constitutes a coherent category of m...

Queer Ear
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Queer Ear

"Queer Ear brings together for the first time a collection of music theorists who issue queer challenges to both music theory and musicology. To queer musicology, which has often presumed that music theory has nothing valuable to contribute to queer music studies, we demonstrate how music theory can be appropriated for queer ends. We show that queerness is integral to our music-theoretical practice, and can change the field of music theory. Queers have always listened widely, repurposing straight sounds for the "queer ear," a concept which stands in contrast with queer soundings, by queer composers, who are also investigated in this volume. Privileging provisional, idiosyncratic, and nonnorm...

Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 533

The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory

New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vast—and increasingly uncharted—intersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore. This handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of Classics has been involved with, and implicated in, queer theory from the start. By placing front and center the rejection of heteronormativity, queer theory has provided Classics with a powerful tool for analyzing non-normative sexual and gender relations in the ancient West, while Classics offers...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 558

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, the companion allows the reader to develop a rounded view of the environment in which Purcell lived, the people with whom he worked, the social conditions that influenced his activities, and the ways in which the modern perception of him has been affected by reception of his music after his death. In this sense the contributions do not privilege the individual over the environment: rather...

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

This book reveals the importance of sung refrains in the musical lives of religious communities in medieval Europe.