Music at Troynovant - song, dance, composers

Music at Troynovant:
notes on music, song, dance, & composers;
listed by Title

References to the history and culture of music, both popular and classical, and including the lyrical or dramatic, and dance — even in silent films. Good music speaks to its time, but as with the best literature, the best music also is timeless.

... there is no Music of the spheres ... Plutarch speaks as if a man might very conveniently hear that harmony, if he were an inhabitant in the Moone. But I guess that he said this out of incogitancy, and did not well consider the necessary consequences upon his opinion.

However the world would have no great loss in being deprived of this Music, unless at some times we had the privilege to hear it ....

John Wilkins
The Discovery of a World in the Moone
or, A Discourse Tending to Prove
that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet (1638)


Act Naturally	Beatles	RW Franson

Dance Cards Dating Ahead at a Ball		RW Franson
Dancing Socially at a Formal Ball		RW Franson
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs	Dave Barry	RW Franson
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog	Whedon / Harris	RW Franson
Dressed to Kill (Sherlock Holmes)	Neill / Rathbone	RW Franson

Famous Druids, The A survey of three centuries of English literature on the Druids	A. L. Owen	RW Franson
Finding Serenity Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly	Jane Espenson	RW Franson
First Love	Henry Koster / Deanna Durbin	RW Franson, JM Franson
Fluttering Hearts	Parrott / Chase	RW Franson

Good Rockin' Tonight Sun Records & the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll	Colin Escott & Martin Hawkins	RW Franson
Green Hills of Earth, The	Robert A. Heinlein	RW Franson
Gypsy Princess versus Blitz		RW Franson

Hey There Cthulhu	Eben Brooks	RW Franson

If Ever You Wanted One Thing Twice Zarathustra as Blues Singer		RW Franson

Johann Strauss, Father and Son A Century of Light Music	H. E. Jacob	RW Franson

Mule, The	Isaac Asimov	RW Franson
Music Box, The	Laurel and Hardy	RW Franson

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning	Fleischer / Berlin	RW Franson

Progressives and Anarchists: Let's Dance ... Wait, What?		SE Jordan

Remake	Connie Willis	RW Franson

Sing, Earthly Muse Music in Ayn Rand's Aesthetics		WH Stoddard
Singer Enigma, The	Ann Maxwell	RW Franson
Snoring In Prehistory, Folklore, and Culture		RW Franson
Songs of Love and Grief	Heinrich Heine	RW Franson
Sons of the Pioneers Music on Your Desktop		RW Franson
Streets of Fire	Walter Hill / Michael Paré	WH Stoddard



Compilation:
Queen of Dances Waltz observations by master writers		RW Franson

[Glendower's castle, Wales.]

Mortimer:

With all my heart, I'll sit and hear her sing.
By that time will our book, I think, be drawn.

Glendower:

Do so, and those musicians that shall play to you
Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
And straight they shall be here. Sit and attend.

William Shakespeare
1 Henry IV, 3.1.218-222

Soundie reviews by Title
shorter musical films of song and/or dance,
music videos

The old gentleman complained that he had heard little music at home these days. To give him his fill for once, Felix played copiously — mornings for Goethe alone; evenings in a larger company. As always, Goethe was interested in the biological and historical aspects of music. As we know from his correspondence with Zelter and also from Felix's accounts, Goethe regarded music as something "evolvable"; it was to him a part of natural history and fascinated him in the same way as the growth of crystals. Indeed, why should not music be experienced in strata? At that very time Ludwig Spohr was experimenting with a Historical Symphony in which he intended to copy the styles of various eras. The experiment was a failure, of course, but it was an attempt in the spirit of Goethe.

Heinrich Eduard Jacob
"Parting with Goethe"
Felix Mendelssohn and his Times
translated by Richard and Clara Winston



Troynovant, or Renewing Troy:		New \| Contents
recurrent inspiration		200 Recent Updates
If you discover an item notably helpful, informative, or entertaining, please consider contributing to our Tip Jar, or sharing it with friends.
	www.Troynovant.com	Share this topic —
Strata \| Personae		© 2001-2012 Franson Publications