Beethoven's skull : dark, strange, and fascinating tales from the world of classical music and beyond
Rayborn, Tim, 1968-2017
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Main title:
Author:
Rayborn, Tim, 1968-, author
Imprint:
New York, NY Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]
Collation:
xvi, 271 pages ; black and white illustrations : 24 cm.
Contents:
Pt. I The Strange Lives, Stranger Deaths, and Odd Fates of Composers -- 1.Ancient Greece and Rome -- Terpander (seventh century BCE, ca. 675) -- Lamprus of Erythrae (early fifth century BCE) -- Harmonides (fourth century? BCE) -- Nero, Emperor of Rome (37--68 CE) -- St. Cecilia (later second century CE) -- Boethius (ca. 480--524/25 CE) -- 2.The Middle Ages -- Deor (tenth century, or earlier) -- Ademar de Chabannes (998/99--1034) -- Taillefer (mid-eleventh century) -- William IX (1071--1126) -- Peter Abelard (1079--1142) -- Marcabru (fl. 1129--1150) -- Bertran de Born (1140s--ca. 1215) -- Richard I (1157--1199) -- The Monk of Montaudon (fi. 1193--1210/11) -- Folquet de Marselha (fi. 1179--1195, d. 1231) -- Chatelain de Coucy (fi. 1186--1203) -- Guilhem de la Tor (fl. 1216--1233) -- Goliards (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) -- Jehan de l'Escurel (d. 1304?) -- Grimace (late fourteenth century) -- 3.The Renaissance --Antoine Busnois (ca. 1430--1492) -- Gilles Joye (1424/25-1483) -- Henry VIII, King of England (1491--1547) -- David Rizzio (or Riccio) (ca. 1533--1566) -- Thomas Morley (1557/58--1602) -- John Bull (1562/63--1628) -- Carlo Gesualdo (1566--1613) -- Tobias Hume (ca. 1569--1645) -- Thomas Weelkes (1576--1623) -- Alfonso Fontanelli (1557--1622) -- Orlando Gibbons (1583--1625) -- 4.The Baroque Era -- Giulio Caccini (1551--1618) -- William Lawes (1602--1645) -- Alessandro Poglietti (early seventeenth century--1683) -- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632--1687) -- Alessandro Stradella (1639--1682) -- John Abell (1653--after 1716/24) -- Marin Marais (1656--1728) -- Henry Purcell (1659--1695) -- Antonio Vivaldi (1678--1741) -- Benedetto Marcello (1686--1739) and Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (d. 1742) -- Francesco Maria Veracini (1690--1768) -- Giuseppe Tartini (1692--1770) -- Jean-Marie Leclair (1697--1764) -- John Taylor (1703--1772) -- Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705--1770) --5.The Classical Era -- Frantisek Kotzwara (1730/31--1791) -- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732--1809) -- Johann Anton Fils (1733--1760) -- Johann Schubert (ca. 1735--1767) -- Josef Myslivecek (1737--1781) -- Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz (1742--1790) -- John Stafford Smith (1750--1836) -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756--1791) -- Antonio Salieri (1750--1825) -- Jakub Jan Ryba (1765--1815) -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770--1827) -- 6.The Romande Era -- The Syphilis Scourge -- Niccolo Paganini (1782--1840) -- Carl Maria von Weber (1786--1826) -- Hector Berlioz (1803--1869) -- Frederic Chopin (1810--1849) -- Franz Liszt (1811--1886) -- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813--1888) -- Anton Bruckner (1824--1896) -- Camille Saint-Saens (1835--1921) -- Modest Mussorgsky (1839--1881) -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840--1893) -- Karel Komzak II (1850--1905) -- Ernest Chausson (1855--1899) -- Giacomo Puccini (1858--1924) -- Gustav Mahler (1860--1911) -- Claude Debussy (1862--1918) --Enrique Granados (1867--1916) -- Alexander Scriabin (1871/72--1915) -- 7.The Modern Era -- Composers in World War I (1914--1918) -- Richard Strauss (1864--1949) -- Erik Satie (1866--1925) -- Louis Vierne (1870--1937) -- Arnold Schoenberg (1874--1951) -- Percy Grainger (1882--1961) -- Anton Webern (1883--1945) -- Alban Berg (1885--1935) -- Wallingford Riegger (1885--1961) -- Sergei Prokofiev (1891--1953) -- Peter Warlock (1894--1930) -- Sins and Omissions -- pt. II A Dark and Weird Musical Miscellany -- 1.Odd Musical Origins -- Biological origins: singing fish -- Biological origins: cavemen choirs -- Mythic origins: the Egyptian music goddess with a violent past -- Mythic origins: the god who made a lyre from a turtle -- 2.Magic in Music -- The myths of Orpheus -- A boil on your nose: the power of the Celtic bards -- Fairy music and its dangers -- Bacchanalian rites in ancient Greece -- Music and magic in the chilly north -- Composers and magic --3.Plague and Penitence: the Rather Awful Fourteenth Century -- The flagellants and their gruesome spectacles -- Kyries: lovely music for awful occasions -- The Fawn-Colored Beast: anti-establishment satire -- The Fumeurs: avant-garde artists or medieval stoners? -- 4.Blood and Guts -- The malevolent Pied Piper of Hamelin -- The historical Dracula -- Joan the Mad and singers for her husband's corpse -- La Marseillaise and the French Revolution -- Blood-letting and a haircut -- 5.The Dead Speak -- They just decomposed -- Schumann's violin concerto, brought back from the dead -- Haunted concert halls and opera houses: where the dead keep giving encores -- Music from beyond -- 6.Nursery Rhymes: the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Awful -- Three Blind Mice -- Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary -- Jack and Jill -- London Bridge Is Falling Down -- Ring around the Rosy -- Georgie Porgie -- Sing a Song of Sixpence -- 7.Musical Curses, Bad Luck, and Superstitions --The curse of "Gloomy Sunday" -- Tchaikovsky's cursed symphony? -- The Babe's piano -- The 27 Club -- Superstitions about the ninth symphony -- The yellow clarinet -- Unlucky Friday---or at least a noisy one -- Morning singing brings tears -- Circus band superstitions -- Sexist superstition at the first American musical -- Schoenberg and the number thirteen -- Speaking of superstitious composers... -- 8.Some Final Musical Oddities -- The mystery of the world's greatest violins -- The ringtone heard round the world -- Composers who hated their own works -- Mozart's skull -- Beethoven's skull.
ISBN:
9781510712713 (hardcover alk paper)1510712712
Dewey class:
780.9
Language:
English
BRN:
319501