Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-8

I - Facets of Ritual: Requiems and Other Funeral Music

pp 9-10

1 - Construction and Instruction: Medieval and Early Modern Masses for the Dead

pp 11-33

2 - Commemorating the Elite Body in the Fifteenth Century

pp 34-52

3 - Types of Mercy and Non-liturgical Dramaturgy: The Musical Requiem as a Concert Piece

pp 53-68

II - Negotiating Memory and Loss

pp 69-70

4 - ‘Aber auf einmal…’: Death, Distance, and Intimacy in Song

pp 71-92

5 - Manifestations of Death in the Music of Johannes Brahms

pp 93-109

6 - Through the Tears of Others: Staging Grief and French Identity in Interwar Musical Theatre

pp 110-133

7 - Leaving the Table: Intimations of Mortality in Leonard Cohen’s Late and Posthumous Work

pp 134-150

III - Reflecting Death to Re-Evaluate Life

pp 151-154

8 - Death in Music and Music in Death: Reflections on Mortality and Listening in the Performances of Marino Formenti

pp 155-169

9 - The Day the Music Died: Searching for New Practices of Sharing in the Aftermath of the Death of a Composer in Western Art Music

pp 170-183

10 - Imagining an Undead Carnival: Psychobilly Fantasies of an Idealistic Afterlife

pp 184-195

11 - The B-52s, Loss, and Defiance

pp 196-212

Bibliography

pp 213-234

Index

pp 235-245