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9780754600879

Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology

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    9780754600879

  • ISBN10:

    0754600874

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-12-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Bennett Zon is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Preface viii
Introduction and background
Some preliminary points and definitions
1(5)
The balance of Continental and English sources
Art
6(3)
Religion
9(3)
Science
12(6)
General histories of music
18(7)
Musicology through the arts
Music and painting
William Crotch
25(7)
Music and architecture
Ruskin and one of his interpreters
32(7)
Music as imitation
Jones, Goddard, Wylde, and Garbett
39(13)
Music as language and poetry
Turnpin, Banister, Prescott, and Osbourne
52(12)
Music images
MacFarren and Wallace
64(6)
Musicology through religion
Music is God
Pugin and Formby
70(12)
Music's divine origin
Jebb and Young
82(9)
Divinity in some general histories of music
Brown and Dickinson
91(14)
Music and mysticism
Edwards and Newton
105(11)
Musicology through science
Basic technical books and their definitions of science
Reeves, Brown, and Cook
116(4)
The principal evolutionary theorists
Spencer and Darwin
120(6)
Writers on music influenced by evolution
Edmund Gurney
126(9)
Joseph Goddard
135(16)
C. Hubert H. Parry
151(13)
William Wallace
164(10)
Brief addendum: J. Alfred Johnstone and evolutionary anti-evolutionism
174(5)
General histories of music
Musical imperialism in general and national histories
179(14)
Primitive music as a mirror of the present
Rowbotham and Wallascheck
193(13)
Issues concerning the balance of narrative and metaphor
206(15)
Select bibliography 221(6)
Index 227

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