Music and Death: Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life

Music and Death: Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Facets of Ritual: Requiems and Other Funeral Music
1 Construction and Instruction: Medieval and Early Modern Masses for the Dead
2 Commemorating the Elite Body in the Fifteenth Century
3 Types of Mercy and Non-liturgical Dramaturgy: The Musical Requiem as a Concert Piece
Part II. Negotiating Memory and Loss
4 ‘Aber auf einmal’: Death, Distance, and Intimacy in Song
5 Manifestations of Death in the Music of Johannes Brahms
6 Through the Tears of Others: Staging Grief and French Identity in Interwar Musical Theatre
7 Leaving the Table: Intimations of Mortality in Leonard Cohen’s Late and Posthumous Work
Part III. Reflecting Death to  Re-Evaluate Life
8 Death in Music and Music in Death: Reflections on Mortality and Listening
9 The Day the Music Died: Searching for New Practices of Sharing
10 Imagining an Undead Carnival: Psychobilly Fantasies of an Idealistic Afterlife
11 The B-52s, Loss, and Defiance
Bibliography
Index