Music in other words : Victorian conversations
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Music in other words : Victorian conversations
(California studies in 19th-century music, 12)
University of California Press, c2004
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Note
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in nineteenth-century criticism
- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years
- "Girling" at the parlor piano
- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading
- "Tadpole pleasures" : Daniel Deronda as music historiography
- Fictions of the opera box
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Prelude 1. Beethoven as Secular Humanist: Ideology and the Ninth Symphony in Nineteenth-Century Criticism 2. Music in a Victorian Mirror: MacmillanAfs 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
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