Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the influence of each on the other, as well as developing methods of study.

This is the first coursebook to help students explore the many types of relationship that exist between music and literature when studied in historical or aesthetic contexts. It fosters interdisciplinary study among students in these subject areas and helps to break down the barrier of music as seeming "impenetrable" to students outside musicology. Chapters each discuss music/text relationships via an important social, aesthetic or cultural theme that maps onto key preoccupations of the long nineteenth century.

Each chapter presents a case-study text first, followed by a short summary that sets out the challenges of approach and interpretation involved. A section on background then places the featured case-study in historical or aesthetic context, leading to a detailed discussion. The book offers a learning experience combining the methodological in music/text relationships with the substantive or thematic.

Contributors: Charlotte Bentley, Philip Burnett, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Elicia Clements, Jeremy Coleman, Sarah Collins, Katharine Ellis, Daniel M. Grimley, Elizabeth Helsinger, Fraser Riddell, Emma Sutton, Shafquat Towheed, Phyllis Weliver, Christopher Wiley

Sommario

Introduction: A Guide to this Book - Phyllis Weliver and Katharine Ellis

1. Vernon Lee's "A Wicked Voice" (1890): Music and Queerness in Decadent Fiction - Fraser Riddell
2. Conjuring Folk Music: George Sand's The Master Pipers (1853) - Katharine Ellis
3. Bands of Mercy Music: A Cultural Study of Victorian Animal Welfare Songs for Children - Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
4. The Music of the Women's Suffrage Movement - Christopher Wiley
5. Song and the Political Body: William Morris - Elizabeth Helsinger
6. Understanding Colonial Mission Hymns and Hybridity - Philip Burnett
7. Representing Non-Western Music: Robert Louis Stevenson in Kiribati - Emma Sutton
8. Musical Encounters at the Louisiana Lakeside in Charles Jobey's "Le lac Cathahoula" (1856/1861) - Charlotte Bentley
9 Critical Dislocations: Champfleury's Richard Wagner (1860) - Jeremy Coleman
10. Locating Elgar: Nationalism, Landscape and Musical Biography - Daniel M. Grimley
11. Musical Ekphrasis and Intermedial Form in Walter Pater's "Duke Carl of Rosenmold" (1887) - Elicia Clements
12. Women, Music and Tennyson's The Princess (1850 edn) - Phyllis Weliver
13. Reading Whitman, Hearing Vaughan Williams: Sexuality, National Politics and the Role of the Artist in Society - Sarah Collins

Coda - Shafquat Towheed

Index

Info autore

PHYLLIS WELIVER is Professor of English at Saint Louis University.KATHARINE ELLIS is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.

Riassunto

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the influence of each on the other, as well as developing methods of study.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Katharine Ellis (Editore), Ellis Katharine (Editore), Phyllis Weliver (Editore), Phyllis (Royalty Account) Weliver (Editore), Weliver Phyllis (Editore)
• Editore: Wiley
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.06.2025
• EAN: 9781837651832
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-183-2
• Pagine: 218
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 666 g
• Illustrazioni: 3 mus exx. and 25 b/w illus.
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Storia della musica; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Comparative Literature, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology