Recomposing the Past

Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen
Herausgeber: Cook; Whittaker, Adam; Kolassa, Alexander

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Produktbeschreibung

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. This collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary, contribution

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780367593155
• ISBN-10: 0367593157
• Artikelnr.: 69894397

Autorenporträt

James Cook is a lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh. He works on the long fifteenth century as well as early music in the popular media of film, television, and videogame. Alexander Kolassa is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research. He is a composer and academic interested in contemporary music and modernism, medievalism, and new media. Adam Whittaker is a postdoctoral researcher at Birmingham City University. He works on medieval and Renaissance music theory, alongside interests in early music in popular media.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Understanding the Present through the Past; the Past through
the Present James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker Part 1:
Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past Chapter 1:
Representing Renaissance Rome: Beyond Anachronism in Showtimes The Borgias
(2011) James Cook Chapter 2: Baroque à la Hitchcock: The Music of
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Mervyn Cooke Chapter 3: 'Frame not my Lute': The
Musical Tudor Court on the Big Screen Daniela Fountain Chapter 4: It Ain't
Over 'til King Arthur Sings: English Dramatick Opera on the Modern Stage
Katherina Lindekens Part 2: Music, Space, and Place: Geography as History
Chapter 5: Musical Divisions of the Sacred and Secular in 'The Hunchback of
Notre Dame' Adam Whittaker Chapter 6: Celtic Music and Hollywood Cinema:
Representation, Stereotype, and Affect Simon Nugent Chapter 7: David
Munrow's 'Turkish Nightclub Piece' Edward Breen Chapter 8: Little Harmonic
Labyrinths: Baroque Musical Style on the Nintendo Entertainment System
William Gibbons Part 3: Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and
New Chapter 9: Presentness and the Past in Contemporary British Opera
Alexander Kolassa Chapter 10: Angels in the Archive: Animating the Past in
'Written on Skin' Maria Ryan Chapter 11: Werner Herzog and the Filmic Dark
Arts: Myth, Truth, Music, and the Life of Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Philip Weller Chapter 12: Medievalism, Music, and Agency in The Wicker Man
(1973) Lisa Colton Chapter 13: Music in Fantasy Pasts: Neomedievalism and '
Game of Thrones' James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker