The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism

844 Pages·2020·11.622 MB·English

by  Stephen C. Meyer (editor), Kirsten Yri (editor)

The Oxford Handbook of
M U S IC A N D
M E DI E VA L I S M

The Oxford Handbook of
MUSIC AND
MEDIEVALISM
Edited by
STEPHEN C. MEYER
and
KIRSTEN YRI
1
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Acknowledgments
This handbook began as an idea for a small collection of essays on medievalism in
music. That it grew to include thirty-three essays is a testament not only to a growing
field, but also to the confidence Oxford placed in us as editors. We wish to thank Oxford
University Press, in particular, Editor in Chief Suzanne Ryan, and Assistant Editor
Lauralee Yeary, for their stewardship, their continuous support and enthusiasm for the
project. For the Handbook’s production, we are indebted to Lakshmanan Sethuraman
and his team. Thanks also go to two Laurier students, Anthea Conway-White and
Bridget Ramzy for their diligence with musical examples and citations. Finally, our
deepest gratitude extends to the authors for their contributions, for their commitment
to the project, and for their patience and cooperation during the editorial process.
In developing this project and bringing it to completion, the editors have benefitted
from the advice and insights of numerous friends, colleagues, and students. In addi-
tion to the contributors (many of whom provided valuable ideas about the shape of
the handbook as a whole), we would like to thank Rebekah Ahrendt, Jenny Doctor,
Sarah Fuller, Andreas Giger, Ashley Greathouse, Thomas Grey, Brian Hart, and
Annette Kreutziger-Herr.
We would also like to acknowledge the invaluable support that our families have
given to us. We would especially like to thank our partners, Eileen Strempel and Andreas
Kitzmann, for their loving encouragement.

Contents
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Kirsten Yri and Stephen C. Meyer
SECTION 1 ROMANTICIZING THE
MEDIEVAL: THE LONGING FOR THE MIDDLE
AGES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
1. Medievalisms in Early Nineteenth-Century German
Musical Thought 17
Laura K. T. Stokes
2. From Knight Errant to Family Man: Romantic Medievalism
in Brahms’s Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone, op. 33 (1865–1869) 38
Marie Sumner Lott
3. Liszt’s Medievalist Modernism 63
Balázs Mikusi
4. Soldiers and Censors: Verdi’s Medieval Imagination 81
Liana Püschel
5. The Distant Past as Mirror and Metaphor: Portraying
the Medieval in Historical French Grand Operas 109
Diana R. Hallman
6. Medievalism and Regionalist Identity in Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys 135
Elinor Olin
7. Romantic Medievalist Nationalism in Schumann’s Genoveva,
Then and Now 155
Michael S. Richardson
8. Richard Wagner’s Medieval Visions 174
Barbara Eichner
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SECTION 2 PERFORMING
THE MIDDLE AGES
9. “What England Has Done for a Thousand Years”: Medievalism
in Christmas Lessons and Carols Services 205
Jacob Sagrans
10. Medieval Folk in the Revivals of David Munrow 224
Edward Breen
11. Re-sounding Carl Theodor Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc 247
Donald Greig
SECTION 3 MEDIEVALISM AND
COMPOSITIONAL PRACTICE IN
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
12. Medievalism and Antiromanticism in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana 269
Kirsten Yri
13. Past Tense: Creative Medievalism in the Music of
Margaret Lucy Wilkins 301
Lisa Colton
14. Hucbald’s Fifths and Vaughan Williams’s Mass:
The New Medieval in Britain between the Wars 327
Deborah Heckert
15. The Return of Ars subtilior?: Rhythmic Complexity in the
Chantilly Codex and in Selected Twentieth-Century Works 340
Aleksandra Vojčić
16. Miserere: Arvo Pärt and the Medieval Present 367
Laura Dolp
17. The Postmodern Troubadour 397
Anne Stone
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SECTION 4 REIMAGINING THE
MEDIEVAL WOMAN
18. Tolling Bells and Otherworldly Voices: Joan of Arc’s Sonic
World in the Early Twentieth Century 423
Elizabeth Dister
19. Medievalism and Rued Langgaard’s Romantic Image
of Queen Dagmar 449
Nils Holger Petersen
20. Nature, Reason, and Light in Vision—Aus dem Leben der
Hildegard von Bingen 468
Jennifer Bain
21. Disciplining Guinevere: Courtly Love and the Arthurian
Tradition from Henry Purcell to Donovan Leitch 484
Gillian L. Gower
SECTION 5 ECHOES OF THE MIDDLE
AGES IN FOLK, ROCK, AND METAL
22. Early Music and Popular Music: Medievalism, Nostalgia,
and the Beatles 509
Elizabeth Randell Upton
23. “Ramble On”: Medievalism as a Nostalgic Practice in
Led Zeppelin’s Use of J. R. R. Tolkien 530
Caitlin Vaughn Carlos
24. A Gothic Romance: Neomedieval Echoes of Fin’amor
in Gothic and Doom Metal 547
Ross Hagen
25. Viking Metal 564
Simon Trafford
26. Medievalism and Identity Construction in Pagan Folk Music 586
Scott R. Troyer