Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Martin Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317092260

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The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians including Jeremy Begbie, Quentin Faulkner and Jon Michael Spencer. Their important work has opened up opportunities for focussed, critical studies of the ways in which music and theology can be seen to interact in specific repertoires, genres, and institutions as well as the work of particular composers, religious leaders and scholars. This collection of essays explores such areas in relation to the religious, musical and social history of nineteenth-century Britain. The book does not simply present a history of sacred music of the period, but examines the role of music in the diverse religious life of a century that encompassed the Oxford Movement, Catholic Emancipation, religious revivals involving many different denominations, the production of several landmark hymnals and greater legal recognition for religions other than Christianity. The book therefore provides a valuable guide to the music of this complex historical period.

Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Grande
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 150137639X

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This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. From oratorio to opera, from parlour song to pantomime, and from hymn to broadside, nineteenth-century Britons continually encountered elements of the biblical past in song. Both elite and popular music came to play a significant role in the formation, regulation and contestation of religious and cultural identity and were used to address questions of class, nation and race, leading to the beginnings of ethnomusicology. This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together musicologists, historians, literary and art historians and theologians to reveal points of intersection between music, religion and cultural history.

Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Rosemary Golding
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000564290

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This volume of primary source material examines music and society in Britian during the ninteenth century. Sources explore religion, politics, class, and gender. The collection of materials are accompanied by an introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of great value to students and scholars.

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Bennett Zon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317092384

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Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explores Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions. Fittingly devoted to a significant element in Temperley's research, this book provides scholars of all nineteenth-century musical topics the opportunity to explore the richness of Britain's musical history.

Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Edward J. Gillin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1003805213

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Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as a growing overseas empire, Britain was home to a rich scientific culture in which the ear was as valuable an organ as the eye for examining nature. Experiments on how sound behaved informed new understandings of how a diverse array of natural phenomena operated, notably those of heat, light, and electro-magnetism. In nineteenth-century Britain, sound was not just a phenomenon to be studied, but central to the practice of science itself and broader understandings over nature and the universe. This collection, accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies
Author: Bennett Zon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0429628846

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Originally published in 1999, this volume of essays arises from the first biennial Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference, held at the University of hull in July 1997. Like the conference, this book seeks to expand and reassess our current knowledge of musical life in Britain during the nineteenth century, as well as to challenge the preconceptions of earlier attitudes and scholarship. This volume covers a cohesive range of subjects and materials intended not only as a revision of past views and scholarship, but also as a tool for further research. It provides a vigorous reconsideration of the musical activity of the period.

Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture
Author: Bennett Zon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107020441

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Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367146221

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Originally published in 1999, this volume of essays arises from the first biennial Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference, held at the University of hull in July 1997. Like the conference, this book seeks to expand and reassess our current knowledge of musical life in Britain during the nineteenth century, as well as to challenge the preconceptions of earlier attitudes and scholarship. This volume covers a cohesive range of subjects and materials intended not only as a revision of past views and scholarship, but also as a tool for further research. It provides a vigorous reconsideration of the musical activity of the period.

Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology

Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology
Author: Daniel Whistler
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474405878

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Bridges the gap between Plutarch Studies and Achaemenid Studies through analysis of key texts.

Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts

Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts
Author: Claire Mabilat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351555545

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Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential. The author uses this theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering in order to analyse primary source materials, and in conjunction with musicological, literary and art theories, thus explores ways in which ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between different genres and artists. Part I, The Musical Stage, discusses elements of the libretti of popular musical stage works in this period, and the occasionally contradictory ways in which 'racial' Others was represented through text and music; a particular focus is the depiction of 'Oriental' women and ideas of sexuality. Through examination of this collection of libretti, the ways in which the writers of these works filter and romanticize the changing intellectual ideas of this era are explored. Part II, Works of Fiction, is a close study of the works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, using other examples of popular fiction by his contemporary writers as contextualizing material, with the primary concern being to investigate how music is utilized in popular fiction to represent Other non-Europeans and in the creation of orientalized gender constructions. Part III, Visual Culture, is an analysis of images of music and the 'Orient' in examples of British 'high art', illustration and photography, investigating how the musical Other was visualized.