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"Den Propheten der neuen Welt" : Is Meyerbeer’s style cinematic?

Vincent, Delphine

In: Bild und Bewegung im Musiktheater: Interdisziplinäre Studien im Umfeld der Grand opéra = Image and Movement in Music Theatre: Interdisciplinary Studies around Grand Opéra, 2018, p. 119-131

Giacomo Meyerbeer is famous for his contribution to opera, developing the style of grand opéra, with Robert le diable (1831), Les Huguenots (1836), Le Prophète (1849) and L’Africaine (1865). The modernity of his musical and dramatic methods of representation led some researchers to assume that Meyerbeer’s writing is partly cinematic. It is the validity of this assumption that I will...

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Japanese City Pop abroad : findings from an online music community survey

Sommet, Moritz ; Kato, Ken

City Pop is a loosely defined musical genre that first emerged in Japan in the late 1970s. Having undergone several recontextualizations and revivals in its country of origin, the genre has recently gained an international following among young Internet users. The most enthusiastic of City Pop’s new fans meet in social media groups and online forums; as of late 2020, a dozen fan communities...

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Intermediality and the discursive construction of popular music genres: the case of ‘Japanese City Pop’

Sommet, Moritz

In: Handai ongaku gakuhō / Journal of Handai Music Studies, 2020/16/17//15-42

Commonly said to embody the 'urbane' and 'refined' lifestyle of metropolitan Tokyo and to prefigure the transnational and consumerist characteristics of today's mainstream J-Pop, Japanese City Pop has undergone several recontextualizations since it first surfaced in the last quarter of the 20th century. I use City Pop as an example to interrogate the intermedial qualities of the processes at...

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Religious, liturgical and musical change in two humanist foundations in Cambridge and Oxford, c. 1534 to c. 1650: St John’s College, Cambridge, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford : A study of internal and external outlook, influence and outcomes

Shinn, Alex ; Harper, John (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2017.

Religious, liturgical, and musical change in two humanist foundations in Cambridge and Oxford, c. 1534 to c. 1650: St. John's College, Cambridge, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. A study of internal and external outlook, influence, and outcomes.This study examines two university colleges after their foundation in the early sixteenth-century, emphasising reforms in worship and music during the...