Music, Mortality, Memory /

Music, Mortality, Memory /

Music comes to our aid when confronted with a sense of our own mortality as here revealed in a variety of contexts and moods. Musical composition and performance significantly influence and draw from personal loss and group trauma, gaining force in kaleidoscopic patterns of shared grief; so, too, wi...

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Other Authors: Davies, Douglas (Editor), McCullough, Matthew (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Death in History, Culture, and Society ; 3.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

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Art History.
Musicology.
Social Sciences.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures, Examples and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • PART 1: Trauma and Conflict
  • 1 Lamenting the Carceral: Hymns as Colonial Memory
  • Erin Johnson-Williams
  • 2 A Traumatic Monument of Fragmented Memories: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem for a Young Poet
  • Wolfgang Marx
  • 3 Babi Yar Memorialised: in Soviet Poetry, Art, and Music
  • Benjamin Goodman
  • PART 2: Ritual and Performance
  • 4 Death, Memory, and Cultural Dynamics in an English Elegy
  • Jonathan Clinch
  • 5 The Fair Woman Lay Upon the Bed: Death, Jubilation, and Juxtaposition in Qawwālī
  • Thomas Anthony Graves
  • 6 The Inclusivity of Personalised Funeral Music
  • Janieke Bruin-Mollenhorst
  • PART 3: Times and Contexts
  • 7 Music and Memory in the Monuments of the Sliabh Luachra Region
  • Daithaí Kearney
  • 8 Poetic, Prophetic, Popular: Aspects of Reception in the Memorial Compositions for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
  • Maximilian Rosenthal
  • Appendix 1: Memorial works for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) between 1847 and 1857
  • Index.