Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it
has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts. The sense and impact of music …

Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it
has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts. The sense and impact of music …

Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which" classical" music made its way into late
twentieth-century American mainstream culture--in pop songs, movie scores, and print …

The study of music history has, in the last decades, seen a move away from the music of the
canon, and of dead, white, male,'great'composers, towards a closer engagement with …

Intermediality can be broadly defined as “the participation of more than one medium of
expression in the signification of a human artefact”(Wolf, Musicalization 1). It became a …

Medievalism looks at the diverse ways in which medievalism—the retrospective immersion
in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages—powerfully …

In practicing the complex discipline of history, scholars habitually and necessarily build on
previous knowledge that has frequently crystallized into received images of the past-whether …

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the
Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the …

Several new and significant themes in the iconography of the musician were established in
the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Broadly speaking, these themes reflect …

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the
relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. The volume …