From song to print
Subtitle: Romantic pseudo-songs
By: Terence Allan Hoagwood.
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780230609839
Subjects: Music and literature -- History -- 19th century; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Description: This is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the Industrial Revolution. Through a discussion of ancient musical forms (classical, biblical, and early-modern poetry of song), this book explores the typographical simulation of music and oral poetry during the nineteenth century. It shows how the musical writings of Romantic poets evoke antique cultures and ancient settings while offering a critique of their own imitative forms and the modern, commercial context in which they appear.
Table of contents: title: Romantic-period poetry and the "sweet power of song"; title: "Ballad deception" and Scott's minstrelsy of the Scottish border; title: The lay of an Irish harp : the pseudo-songs of Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan); title: Contradictory arts : Thomas Moore's Irish melodies; title: It gave them virtues not their own : Byron's Hebrew melodies.