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Kendra Leonard deposited Topsy-Turvy Victoriana: Locating Life and Death in Corpse Bride on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
In the 2005 film Corpse Bride, director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman collaborate using both musical and visual signifiers to create two very different realms that the main characters must traverse: the land of the living, and the land of the dead. The characterizations of these places appear in the reverse of what a viewer might expect.…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited “The Wild West meets the wives of Windsor: Shakespeare and Music in the Mythological American West” in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoNorth America has never had any trouble making Shakespeare its own. Since the first American performance of Shakespeare play in 1730, directors, actors, and musicians have been working to locate the works of the Bard in the United States and Canada. I will examine the music for two Shakespearean productions in the context of this Americanization…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited “The Wild West meets the wives of Windsor: Shakespeare and Music in the Mythological American West” in the group
Global Shakespeares on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoNorth America has never had any trouble making Shakespeare its own. Since the first American performance of Shakespeare play in 1730, directors, actors, and musicians have been working to locate the works of the Bard in the United States and Canada. I will examine the music for two Shakespearean productions in the context of this Americanization…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited “The Wild West meets the wives of Windsor: Shakespeare and Music in the Mythological American West” on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
North America has never had any trouble making Shakespeare its own. Since the first American performance of Shakespeare play in 1730, directors, actors, and musicians have been working to locate the works of the Bard in the United States and Canada. I will examine the music for two Shakespearean productions in the context of this Americanization…[Read more]
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Karen Cook's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Karen Cook's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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Kendra Leonard deposited Musical Mimesis in Orphans of the Storm in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn this essay I explore the use of musical mimesis in the score for D. W. Griffith’s 1921 film Orphans of the Storm. I demonstrate that the score, created by Louis F. Gottschalk and William Frederick Peters, offers coherence through the use of central themes and the employment of several characteristic leitmotivs; provides recognizable musical c…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Musical Mimesis in Orphans of the Storm on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
In this essay I explore the use of musical mimesis in the score for D. W. Griffith’s 1921 film Orphans of the Storm. I demonstrate that the score, created by Louis F. Gottschalk and William Frederick Peters, offers coherence through the use of central themes and the employment of several characteristic leitmotivs; provides recognizable musical c…[Read more]
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Danielle Fosler-Lussier started the topic Women in Music– Historiography in the discussion
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoI’m prepping a new graduate seminar for autumn on the historiography of women in American music, broadly construed. We will use local and online primary source collections, but I also want to make sure we get into key readings in the field, both as examples of excellent history and a variety of different methods/approaches. Would anyone like to…[Read more]
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Danielle Fosler-Lussier started the topic Women in Music– Historiography in the discussion
Historiography on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoI’m prepping a new graduate seminar for autumn on the historiography of women in American music, broadly construed. We will use local and online primary source collections, but I also want to make sure we get into key readings in the field, both as examples of excellent history and a variety of different methods/approaches. Would anyone like to…[Read more]
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William Gibbons's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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Karen Cook's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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Gabrielle Cornish's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Karen Cook's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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Kendra Leonard deposited Song of Myself: Autobiography in Pop Music in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn essay on autobiography in pop songs by women: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/singing-about-yourself-autobiography-in-pop-music.html
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Kendra Leonard deposited Hearing Gender in George Lucas’s Galaxy in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn essay on gender and music in the Star Wars films: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/01/hearing-gender-in-george-lucass-galaxy.html
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Kendra Leonard deposited Heavy Metal Elves in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEssay on music inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/10/heavy-metal-elves.html
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Kendra Leonard deposited The Innovations of Ruth Crawford Seeger on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
An essay on Ruth Crawford Seeger’s string quartet, using the technique of integral serialism: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/the-innovations-of-ruth-crawford-seeger.html
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Kendra Leonard deposited American Folk Rock Cattle Raid: The Decemberists’s The Tain on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
An essay on The Decemberists’ The Tain: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/11/american-folk-rock-cattle-raid-the-decemberistss-the-tain.html
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