Recomposing the past : representations of early music on stage and screen
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Recomposing the past : representations of early music on stage and screen
(Ashgate screen music series)
Routledge, 2018
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Note
"Works cited"at end of each paper
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Representing Renaissance Rome : beyond anachronism in Showtime's The Borgias (2011) / James Cook
- Baroque á la Hitchcock : the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) / Mervyn Cooke
- "Frame not my lute" : the musical Tudor Court on the big screen / Daniela Fountain
- It ain't over 'til King Arthur sings : English dramatick opera on the modern stage / Katherina Lindekens
- Musical divisions of the sacred and secular in The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Adam Whittaker
- Celtic music and Hollywood cinema : representation, stereotype, and affect / Simon Nugent
- David Munrow's "Turkish nightclub piece" / Edward Breen
- Little harmonic labyrinths : baroque musical style on the Nintendo Entertainment System / William Gibbons
- Presentness and the past in contemporary British opera / Alexander Kolassa
- Angels in the archive : animating the past in Written on Skin / Maria Ryan
- Werner Herzog and the filmic dark arts : myth, truth, music, and the life of Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) / Philip Weller
- Medievalism, music, and agency in The Wicker Man (1973) / Lisa Colton
- Music in fantasy pasts : neomedievalism and Game of Thrones / James Cook, Alexander Kolassa and Adam Whittaker
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities, these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and opera (Written on Skin, Taverner, English 'dramatick opera'). This collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary, contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers: 'Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past', 'Music, Space, and Place: Geography as History', and 'Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New'. Like the musical collage that is our shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that this collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its parts.
Table of Contents
- 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 a 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
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