Background
Leppard, Raymond John was born on August 11, 1927 in London. Arrived in the United States, 1976. Son of Albert Victor and Bertha May (Beck) Leppard.
(The music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra...)
The music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra examines the 20th-century attitude toward early music, focusing on works by Monteverdi, Handel, and Gluck.
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This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell off-screen to a minstrel singing his song. Medieval film music must be considered in the broader historical context of pre-cinematic medievalisms and of medievalist cinema’s main development in the course of the twentieth century as an American appropriation of European culture. The book treats six pervasive moments that define the genre of medieval film: the church-tower bell, the trumpet fanfare or horn call, the music of banquets and courts, the singing minstrel, performances of Gregorian chant, and the music that accompanies horse-riding knights, with each chapter visiting representative films as case studies. These six signal musical moments, that create a fundamental visual-aural core central to making a film feel medieval to modern audiences, originate in medievalist works predating cinema by some three centuries.
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Leppard, Raymond John was born on August 11, 1927 in London. Arrived in the United States, 1976. Son of Albert Victor and Bertha May (Beck) Leppard.
Master of Arts, University Cambridge, England, 1955. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Bath, England, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Indianapolis, 1991.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Purdue University, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Butler University, 1994. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Wabash College, 1995.
Doctor of Music (honorary), Indiana University, 2001.
Fellow Trinity College, Cambridge. Music lecturer University Cambridge, 1958—1968. Music director English Chamber Orchestra, London, 1959—1977.
Principal conductor British Broadcasting Corporation Philharmonic, Manchester, England, 1972—1980. Conductor Metropolitan Opera, New York City, Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico, San Francisco Opera, California, Royal Opera House, London, Paris Opera. Principal guest conductor St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis, 1984—1990.
Music director Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1987—2001, conductor laureate, since 2001.
(The music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra...)
( This book explores the role of music in the some five h...)