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Author's inscription on front fly leaf; otherwise very good.

Description: The Reformation of Ritual explores the function of ritual in early modern German society, and the extent to which it was modified by the Reformation. Employing anthropological insights and drawing on extensive archival research, Susan Karant-Nunn outlines the significance of the ceremonial changes. This comprehensive study includes an examination of all major rites of passage: birth, baptism, confirmation, engagement, marriage, penance, the Eucharist and dying. The author argues that the changes in ritual made over the course of the century reflect more than theological shifts; ritual was a means of imposing discipline and of making the divine more or less accessible. This study provides insight into the politics of reforming religion and into the practices of the wider congregation in early modern Germany.

Some minor wear to cover and fore edges.
Description: In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required machineries consistently changed, sometimes still resonating in contemporary stagings, performance art, and popular culture. Focusing on devices (which she dubs 'Wagnerian technologies') intended to amalgamate opera's various media while veiling their mechanics, Kreuzer offers a practical counternarrative to Wagner's idealist theories of total illusionism. Curtain, Gong, Steam's multifaceted exploration of the three titular technologies repositions Wagner as catalyst more than inventor in the history of operatic production. With its broad chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of the material and mechanical conditions of… Read More

Ex. lib. Cover and spine are free of markings; bookplates on front fly leaf; cataloging info on title page; text is otherwise clean and in very good condition.

Contents: Provincialism, modernity, and the classical heritage : the administrative structure of the GDR and the situation of music production / Tatjana Böhme-Mehner -- Classicism as anti-fascist heritage : realism and myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer's Mansfelder Oratorium (1950) / Golan Gur -- Positioning Georg Knepler in the musicological discourse of the GDR / Lars Fischer -- Ehrt euren deutschen Meister : reproducing Wagner in the GDR / Peter Kupfer -- The embodiment of collective memory in Neue Odyssee / Jessica Payette -- Marxism and feminism in Ruth Berghaus's staging of Don Giovanni / Johanna Frances Yunker -- Beyond the Gewandhaus : Mahler and the GDR / Juliane Schicker -- Hanns Eisler's funeral and cultures of commemoration in the GDR / Martha Sprigge -- Exile--remigration--socialist realism : the role of classical music in the works… Read More