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Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond presents essays discussing musical and sonic matters of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. It is the thirty-ninth book of the Cormarë Series, published in 2019.

Essays[]

  • Introduction: "'I love music': The Musicality of the Philologist" by Julian Eilmann & Friedhelm Schneidewind

Tolkien and Music[]

  • Chiara Bertoglio, "Polyphony, Collective Improvisation, and the Gift of Creation"
  • Michaël Devaux & Guglielmo Spirito, "Laments and Mercy: Tolkien and Liturgical Music"
  • Nancy Martsch, "Middle-earth Improv: Song Writing and Improvisation in Tolkien's Works"
  • Łukasz Neubauer, "'What news from the North?': The Compositional Fabric, Intricate Imagery and Heroic Christian Character of the 'Lament for Boromir'"
  • Jörg Fündling, "'Go forth, for it is there!' An Imperialist Battle Cry behind the Lament for Boromir?"

The Power of Music[]

  • Elizabeth A. Whittingham, "'A Matter of Song': The Power of Music and Song in Tolkien's Legendarium"
  • Bradford Lee Eden, "'The Scholar as Minstrel': Word-music and Sound-words in Tolkien's 'New Works'"
  • Lynn Forest-Hill, "Tolkien's Minstrelsy: The Performance of History and Authority"
  • Maureen F. Mann, "Musicality in Tolkien's Prose"
  • Petra Zimmermann, "'A deep silence fell': Silence and the Presentation of 'Voices' in Tolkien"

Music of Different Texts and Characters[]

  • Renée Vink, "Dance and Song: 'The Lay of Leithian' between 'The Tale of Tinúviel' and 'Of Beren and Lúthien'"
  • Jennifer Rogers, "Music and the Outcast: Songs of the Wanderer in Tolkien's Time-Travel Fragments"
  • Angela P. Nicholas, "Aragorn, Music and the 'Divine Plan'"
  • Sabine Frambach, "'Where you hear song, you may rest at ease': The Music of the Evil Ones in Middle-earth"

Instruments in Middle-earth[]

  • Heidi Steimel, "An Orchestra in Middle-earth"
  • John R. Holmes, "Nis me ti hearpun hygi: Harping on One String in Middle-earth"
  • Allan Turner, "The Horns of Elfland"
  • Rainer Großby, "Portatives in Middle-earth: A Speculative Approach to Organ Instruments in Tolkien’s Work"

Music beyond Tolkien[]

  • Anja Müller, "The Lords of the Rings: Wagner’s Ring and Tolkien’s 'Faërie'"
  • Patrick Schmitz, "'True Music in the Words': A Comparative Analysis of the Function of Music in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles"
  • Tobias Escher, "Of Home Keys and Music Style Guides: Orchestral Scores for Tolkien-based Video Games"

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