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  • Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines

    by Bennett Zon, Bernard Lightman ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines adds a crucial missing link in that history by asking and answering ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

    by Bennett Zon ...
    This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the ... Read more

    $130.39 USD

  • Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology

    by Bennett Zon ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    �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 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s

    Portrayal of the East

    by Bennett Zon ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley

    Edited by Bennett Zon ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    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 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

    Volume 1

    Edited by Bennett Zon ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    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 ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Music

    Selected Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference

    by Bennett Zon ...
    This selection of essays represents a wide cross-section of the papers given at the Tenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music held at the University of Bristol in 1998. Sections include thematic groupings of work on musical meaning, Wagner, Liszt, musical culture in France, music and nation, and women and music. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Evolution and Victorian Culture

    Series Book 92 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Edward Elgar and His World

    Edited by Byron Adams ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide. Leading scholars examine the composer's life in Edward Elgar and His World, presenting a ... Read more

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  • English Pastoral Music

    From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955

    by Eric Saylor ...
    Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Musical Style and Social Meaning

    Selected Essays

    by Derek B. Scott ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied Derek Scott's thoughts and driven his critical musicological research for many years. In this selection of essays, dating from 1995-2010, he returns time ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Contemporary Music and Spirituality

    Edited by Robert Sholl, Sander Van Maas ...
    The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have sought to invoke spirituality and Otherness through contemporary music.Contemporary Music and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD