Donald Greig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3972039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Greig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Greig |
| SIGNATURE | GREIG D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lady in the Lake , Choral Voices, and Narrative Agency
A notable feature of the use of choral voices in cinema is the attenuation of language; singers hum, vocalise, and sing in invented or dead languages. Such an approach applies across genres and sees choruses used in two related ways: as evocations of human and inhuman collectives, and as celebrants of spectacle and narrative resolution. I argue that this approach is dictated by the particular implication of human agency that the voice, as opposed…
Re-sounding Carl Theodor Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc is one of the most famous films about the medieval period, and its status as a classic, together with its loss to fire and subsequent rediscovery, has attracted various musical commentaries. Dreyer, later in life, pondered the idea of a historically appropriate score, thereby showing his commitment to historical research, but he did so at a time when the performance of such reperto…
Vocal Recall
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Vocal Recall
Re-sounding Carl Theodor Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc is one of the most famous films about the medieval period, and its status as a classic, together with its loss to fire and subsequent rediscovery, has attracted various musical commentaries. Dreyer, later in life, pondered the idea of a historically appropriate score, thereby showing his commitment to historical research, but he did so at a time when the performance of such reperto…
Lady in the Lake , Choral Voices, and Narrative Agency
A notable feature of the use of choral voices in cinema is the attenuation of language; singers hum, vocalise, and sing in invented or dead languages. Such an approach applies across genres and sees choruses used in two related ways: as evocations of human and inhuman collectives, and as celebrants of spectacle and narrative resolution. I argue that this approach is dictated by the particular implication of human agency that the voice, as opposed…
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