Cenotaphs in Sound: Catastrophe, Memory, and Musical Memorials

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2010
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Schmidt, James
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Schmidt, James. "Cenotaphs in Sound: Catastrophe, Memory, and Musical Memorials." Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics 2 (2010), 454-78.
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This paper examines the peculiar status of musical compositions that are intended to serve as memorials of victims of political violence. It considers four examples of this genre: John Foulds' World Requiem (1923), Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw (1947), Steve Reich's Different Trains (1988), and John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls (2002).
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Originally published at http://proceedings.eurosa.org/2/schmidt.pdf
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