T F Coombes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5961282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T F Coombes |
| GIVEN NAMES | T F |
| FAMILY NAME | Coombes |
| SIGNATURE | COOMBES T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2479-1172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Enter Children, with Childhood
Anglo-American musicology is having a childhood moment. The foundation of the American Musicological Society’s Music and Childhood Study Group marked this moment most clearly, together with the launch in 2021 of an accompanying website maintained by Susan Boynton and Ryan Bunch. 1 Not that children and childhood are anything new as a topic of enquiry in music studies: since the mid- to late twentieth century, children’s musical cultures have form…
(Trans)National Fairy Tale and Romantic Childhood
Around 1900, Engelbert Humperdinck and Adelheid Wette's Hänsel und Gretel was one of the most widely performed operas in Europe. The critical discourse prompted by its Paris premiere provides an opportunity for exploring the political dynamics of nineteenth-century fairy tales and for elucidating the piece's considerable historical significance. Although Humperdinck's opera was a prime vehicle for perpetuating Franco-German cultural competition, …
The Mysterious Souls of Hellé and Debussy’s Toys
This article is a study of the piano version of Debussy’s La Boîte à joujoux—a musical storybook with illustrations by André Hellé—in the context of literary discourses about the toy. The storybook’s exploration of the nature of toyhood illustrates what Barbara Johnson calls the ‘asymptotic relation between things and persons’. Hellé and Debussy’s characters invite a contribution to philosophical reflections on the role of mechanical bodies as si…
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(Trans)National Fairy Tale and Romantic Childhood
Around 1900, Engelbert Humperdinck and Adelheid Wette's Hänsel und Gretel was one of the most widely performed operas in Europe. The critical discourse prompted by its Paris premiere provides an opportunity for exploring the political dynamics of nineteenth-century fairy tales and for elucidating the piece's considerable historical significance. Although Humperdinck's opera was a prime vehicle for perpetuating Franco-German cultural competition, …
The Mysterious Souls of Hellé and Debussy’s Toys
This article is a study of the piano version of Debussy’s La Boîte à joujoux—a musical storybook with illustrations by André Hellé—in the context of literary discourses about the toy. The storybook’s exploration of the nature of toyhood illustrates what Barbara Johnson calls the ‘asymptotic relation between things and persons’. Hellé and Debussy’s characters invite a contribution to philosophical reflections on the role of mechanical bodies as si…
Enter Children, with Childhood
Anglo-American musicology is having a childhood moment. The foundation of the American Musicological Society’s Music and Childhood Study Group marked this moment most clearly, together with the launch in 2021 of an accompanying website maintained by Susan Boynton and Ryan Bunch. 1 Not that children and childhood are anything new as a topic of enquiry in music studies: since the mid- to late twentieth century, children’s musical cultures have form…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Central European national history (1 work) · Childhood studies (1 work)