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.
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.
Bennett Zon is Senior Lecturer in Music at the The School of Music, Durham University. He is the author of The English Plainchant Revival (OUP, 1998) and editor of Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies (Ashgate, 1999).
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Contents: Introduction and background: Some preliminary points and definitions The balance of Continental and English sources: Art Religion Science General histories of music Musicology through the arts: Music and painting: William Crotch Music and architecture: Ruskin and one of his interpreters Music as imitation: Jones, Goddard, Wylde and Garbett Music as language and poetry: Turnpin, Banister, Prescott and Osbourne Music images: MacFarren and Wallace Musicology through religion: Music is God: Pugin and Formby Music's divine origin: Jebb and Young Divinity in some general histories of music: Brown and Dickinson Music and mysticism: Edwards and Newton Musicology through science: Basic technical books and their definitions of science: Reeves, Brown and Cook The principal evolutionary theorists: Spencer and Darwin Writers on music influenced by evolution: Edmund Gurney, Joseph Goddard, C. Hubert H. Parry, William Wallace Addendum: J. Alfred Johnstone and evolutionary anti-evolutionism General histories of music: Musical imperialism in general and national histories Primitive music as a mirror of the present: Rowbotham and Wallascheck Issues concerning the balance of narrative and metaphor Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction and background: Some preliminary points and definitions The balance of Continental and English sources: Art Religion Science General histories of music Musicology through the arts: Music and painting: William Crotch Music and architecture: Ruskin and one of his interpreters Music as imitation: Jones, Goddard, Wylde and Garbett Music as language and poetry: Turnpin, Banister, Prescott and Osbourne Music images: MacFarren and Wallace Musicology through religion: Music is God: Pugin and Formby Music's divine origin: Jebb and Young Divinity in some general histories of music: Brown and Dickinson Music and mysticism: Edwards and Newton Musicology through science: Basic technical books and their definitions of science: Reeves, Brown and Cook The principal evolutionary theorists: Spencer and Darwin Writers on music influenced by evolution: Edmund Gurney, Joseph Goddard, C. Hubert H. Parry, William Wallace Addendum: J. Alfred Johnstone and evolutionary anti-evolutionism General histories of music: Musical imperialism in general and national histories Primitive music as a mirror of the present: Rowbotham and Wallascheck Issues concerning the balance of narrative and metaphor Bibliography Index.
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