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This chapter explains how execution ballads deployed the tradition of contrafactum, the setting of new words to well-known tunes, that was a feature of balladry, revealing the significance of the choice of music to the transmission of information about the crime and punishment, and to the depiction of the criminal.
It provides an explanation of the various methods of public execution, and closes with a chapter outline of the book. Keywords: execution ballads, authorship, digitisation, execution methods, longue durée, multilingual, historiography. Subject.
Mercier described a tradition of public singing about executed criminals that was already centuries old. The complainte ('lament'), a medieval song form traditionally associated with mourning over a loved or revered person, had by this time become inextricably linked with the repentant words of the
28 kwi 2022 · Singing the News of Death explores the hugely popular phenomenon of execution ballads in Europe from the early modern period onwards, revealing how song was employed for centuries as a common means of informing society about the news of public executions.
28 mar 2008 · Summary. “Anyone who aspires to understand contrapunctus should write down the following matters.”. So begins a short manual on counterpoint from the early fourteenth century that circulated widely under the authority of Jehan des Murs but is best identified (anonymously) by its incipit “Quilibet affectans.”.
28 mar 2018 · Medievalism is an important part of understanding the context of scholarly and performance traditions such as the historically informed performance practice movement and in understanding many types of music from Wagnerian opera to heavy metal. Indeed, medievalism has a long history in the arts.
30 maj 2013 · In the medieval era, public executions were meant to accomplish two goals: first, to shock spectators and, second, to reaffirm divine and temporal authority.
