Schmidt, James2011-12-122011-12-122013-01-242010Schmidt, James. "Cenotaphs in Sound: Catastrophe, Memory, and Musical Memorials." Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics 2 (2010), 454-78.1664-5278https://hdl.handle.net/2144/2407Originally published at http://proceedings.eurosa.org/2/schmidt.pdfThis 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).en-USAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unportedhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Article