Music in Other Words (eBook)

Victorian Conversations

Ruth A. Solie (Autor)

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2004
223 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93006-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for the muffled, even subterranean, conversations that reveal so much about what music meant to the Victorians. Her essays, giving voice to "what goes without saying" on the subject—that cultural information so present and pervasive as to go unsaid—fill in some of the most intriguing blanks in our understanding of music's history.

This much-anticipated collection, bringing together new and hard-to-find pieces by an acclaimed musicologist, mines the abundant casual texts of the period to show how Victorian-era people—English and others—experienced music and what they understood to be its power and its purposes. Solie's essays start from topics as varied as Beethoven criticism, Macmillan's Magazine, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, opera tropes in literature, and the Victorian myth of the girl at the piano. They evoke common themes—including the moral force that was attached to music in the public mind and the strongly gendered nature of musical practice and sensibility—and in turn suggest the complex links between the history of music and the history of ideas.

Inhalt

Prelude

1. Beethoven as Secular Humanist: Ideology and the Ninth Symphony in Nineteenth-Century Criticism
2. Music in a Victorian Mirror: MacmillanÅfs Magazine in the Grove Years
3. "Girling" at the Parlor Piano
4. Biedermeier Domesticity and the Schubert Circle: A Rereading
5. "Tadpole Pleasures": Daniel Deronda as Music Historiography
6. Fictions of the Opera Box

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2004
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in 19th-Century Music
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in 19th-Century Music
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Beethoven • Classical music • Daniel Deronda • Diaries • domesticity • drawing room music • elsie dinsmore • Entertainment • etiquette manuals • femininity • finishing school • Gender • gender roles • George Eliot • girl at piano • girlhood • History • Journalism • journals • macmillans • music • music at home • Music History • musicology • Opera • parlor piano • Piano Music • playing piano • religious tracts • Schubert • secular humanism • sensibility • transatlantic • Victorian culture • victorian music • Victorian Novels • Victorian period • Women • womens history
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93006-1 / 0520930061
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93006-3 / 9780520930063