A Concise History of Music from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time

A Concise History of Music from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time
Title A Concise History of Music from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time PDF eBook
Author Henry George Bonavia Hunt
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Pages 234
Release 1878
Genre Music
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A concise history of music

A concise history of music
Title A concise history of music PDF eBook
Author Henry George Bonavia Hunt
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Pages 234
Release 1879
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Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music

Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music
Title Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music PDF eBook
Author Julian Rushton
Publisher Routledge
Pages 320
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Music
ISBN 1351567640

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This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized vitality of musical theatre and other kinds of spectacle in Britain itself, and also the flourishing concert life of the period, indicates a means of defining tradition and identity within nineteenth-century British musical culture. The objective of the volume has been to add significantly to the growing literature on these topics. It benefits not only from new archival research, but also from fresh musicological approaches and interdisciplinary methods that recognize the integral role of music within a wider culture, including religious, political and social life. The essays are by scholars from the USA, Britain, and Europe, covering a wide range of experience. Topics range from the reception of Bach, Mozart, and Liszt in England, a musical response to Shakespeare, Italian opera in Dublin, exoticism, gender, black musical identities, British musicians in Canada, and uses of music in various theatrical genres and state ceremony, and in articulating the politics of the Union and Empire.

Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology

Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology
Title Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology PDF eBook
Author Bennett Zon
Publisher Routledge
Pages 242
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Music
ISBN 1351557653

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In a word, I shall endeavour to show how our music, having been originally a shell-fish, with its restrictive skeleton on the outside and no soul within, has been developed by the inevitable laws of evolution, through natural selection and the survival of the fittest, into something human, even divine, with the strong, logical skeleton of its science inside, the fair flesh of God-given beauty outside, and the whole, like man himself, animated by a celestial, eternal spirit.... W.J. Henderson, The Story of Music (1889) Critical writing about music and music history in nineteenth-century Britain was permeated with metaphor and analogy. Music and Metaphor examines how over-arching theories of music history were affected by reference to various figurative linguistic templates adopted from other disciplines such as art, religion, politics and science. Each section of the book discusses a wide range of musicological writings and their correspondence with the language used to convey contemporary ideas such as the sublime, the ancient and modern debate, and, in particular, the theory of evolution. Bennett Zon reveals that through their application of metaphorical frameworks taken from art, religion and science, these writers and their work shed light on nineteenth-century perceptions of music history and illuminate the ways in which these disciplines affected notions of musical development.

The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular

The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular
Title The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular PDF eBook
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Pages 670
Release 1880
Genre Electronic journals
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Musical Times and Singing-class Circular

Musical Times and Singing-class Circular
Title Musical Times and Singing-class Circular PDF eBook
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Pages 652
Release 1882
Genre Music
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Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain

Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain
Title Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain PDF eBook
Author Bennett Zon
Publisher University Rochester Press
Pages 380
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN 9781580462594

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Explores the influence of anthropological theories, travel literature, psychology, and other intellectual trends on the perception of non-Western music and elucidates the roots of today's field of ethnomusicology.