Music in Middle-earth

Music in Middle-earth is a 2010 book investigating the use of song and music within J.R.R. Tolkien's stories. It is published as No. 20 in the Cormarë Series.

Contents
  • Foreword
  • Part A: Creation and Music
  • — "Behold Your Music!": The Themes of Ilúvatar, the Song of Aslan, and the Real Music of the Spheres
  • — — By: Kristine Larsen
  • — Tonality, Atonality and the Ainulindalë
  • — — By: Reuven Naveh
  • — Ainulindalë: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of the Music
  • — — By: Jonathan McIntosh
  • Part B: Music in Tolkien's World
  • — A Speculative History of the Music of Arda
  • — — By: Steven Linden
  • — "Bring Out the Instruments!": Instrumental Music in Middle-earth
  • — — By: Heidi Steimel
  • — The Harp in Middle-earth
  • — — By: Norbert Maier (translated from German by Heidi Steimel)
  • Part C: Influences of Our World on Tolkien's Music
  • — Music, Myth, and Literary Depth in the "Land ohne Musik"
  • — — By: Gregory Martin
  • — Strains of Elvish Song and Voices: Victorian Medievalism, Music, and Tolkien
  • — — By: Bradford Lee Eden
  • — Sleeps a Song in Things Abounding: J.R.R. Tolkien and the German Romantic Tradition
  • — — By: Julian Eilmann (translated from German by Heidi Steimel)
  • — "They Began to Hum Softly": Some Soldiers' Songs of World Wars I and II and of Middle-earth Compared and Contrasted
  • — — By: Murray Smith
  • Part D: Interpretations of Tolkien's Music in Our World
  • — An Impenetrable Darkness: An Examination of the Influence of J.R.R. Tolkien on Black Metal Music
  • — — By: Michael Cunningham
  • — Microphones in Middle-earth: Music in the BBC Radio Play
  • — — By: Paul Smith
  • — Elven Music in Our Times
  • — — By: Mira Sommer (translated from German by Marie-Noëlle Biemer)
  • — Making Texts Audible: A Workshop Report on Setting Tolkien to Music
  • — — By: Fabian Geier (translated from German by Heidi Steimel)
  • Appendix
  • — Embodying the Voices: Documentation of a Failure
  • — — By: Friedhelm Schneidewind (translated from German by Heidi Steimel)
  • Afterword: Greater Music Still Shall be Made
Referencias

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