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The sample in this article looks at 252 execution ballads, in English, French, German and Italian. Italian street songs about executed criminals do not contain an explicit tune direction, and their unique method of musical guidance will be discussed later.
PDF | On Nov 1, 2015, Una McIlvenna published The Power of Music: the Significance of Contrafactum in Execution Ballads | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
7 maj 2021 · This article explores the pan-European phenomenon of the execution ballad, songs that told the news of true crimes and their punishment by public execution.
The endurance of various types of execution with little or no deterrent function—the trial and punishment of animals, cadavers and effigies—reveals the extent to which the theory and practice of capital punishment were drawn from different cultural influences and frequently functioned at cross purposes.
25 sie 1985 · In nineteen chapters, seventeen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader; the book is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.
5 mar 2020 · The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the growing field of medievalism in music by bringing together international scholars to explore a wide variety of past and present genres in which medievalism is present.
This essay will survey the principal manuscripts that collect songs featuring Ars subtilior practice, summarize the evidence of Ars subtilior practice in music-theoretical sources, and then describe the practice as it appears in musical compositions, offering close readings of the interaction of poetic text and musical notation in a couple of ...
