Music of the SirensLinda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography. |
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... ' Figure 2.8. Daniel Maclise, The Origin of the Harp, engraved by F. P. Becker from Moore's Irish Melodies (1866). Photograph courtesy of Linda Phyllis Austern. Music of the Sirens Music of the Sirens Edited by. [∫π]
... ' Figure 2.8. Daniel Maclise, The Origin of the Harp, engraved by F. P. Becker from Moore's Irish Melodies (1866). Photograph courtesy of Linda Phyllis Austern. Music of the Sirens Music of the Sirens Edited by. [∫π]
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... melody, rhythm, instrumentation, and performance. The sirinu of the Bolivian Andes are in some ways reminiscent to their Iberian counterparts but have clearly indigenous ancestry; the same can be said of the Russian sirin and [π] ...
... melody, rhythm, instrumentation, and performance. The sirinu of the Bolivian Andes are in some ways reminiscent to their Iberian counterparts but have clearly indigenous ancestry; the same can be said of the Russian sirin and [π] ...
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... melodies of Sirens nor the songs of swans attract the attention of their hearers as did the voices of the children in torture calling to their mother'' (RSV), is unproblematic, for this book was composed in a high literary Greek; but ...
... melodies of Sirens nor the songs of swans attract the attention of their hearers as did the voices of the children in torture calling to their mother'' (RSV), is unproblematic, for this book was composed in a high literary Greek; but ...
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... melody;78 so that through the sweetness of their voice they delight the ears of sailors from afar and draw them to ... melodies, are lulled with sleep and made the prey of their enemies.80 There follows a description of onocentaurs, to ...
... melody;78 so that through the sweetness of their voice they delight the ears of sailors from afar and draw them to ... melodies, are lulled with sleep and made the prey of their enemies.80 There follows a description of onocentaurs, to ...
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... melodies, that is he instructs them with salutary teachings, lest they become entangled in secular delights. But he ... melody that attracted passers-by, astonished them, and made them stay, though the myth exaggerates in saying that ...
... melodies, that is he instructs them with salutary teachings, lest they become entangled in secular delights. But he ... melody that attracted passers-by, astonished them, and made them stay, though the myth exaggerates in saying that ...
Contents
Siren Traditions and Musical Creation in the CentralSouthern Andes | |
Heavenly and Earthly Sirens in Sixteenth and SeventeenthCentury Literary and Visual Culture | |
5 The Sirens the Epicurean Boat and the Poetry of Praise | |
Of Music Modernity and the Sirens | |
Water Power and Women | |
Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens | |
Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in Africa | |
Pop Sirens at the Twentyfirst Century | |
12 The Cocktail Siren in David Lynchs Blue Velvet | |
Bibliography | |
List of Contributors | |
Index | |
Back Cover | |
The Legend of a Greek Singer in a Turkish Tavern | |
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