Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century Musicology (Music in Nineteenth Century Britain)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd; Ashgate
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780754600879
Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; c 1800 to c 1900; Music History And Criticism +; Music Of The 19th Century; Music; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History & Criticism - General; 19th century; Great Britain; History; Metaphor in musical criticism; Musicology; Terminology
Description: "Music and Metaphor examines how overarching theories of music history were affected by reference to various figurative linguistic templates adopted from other disciplines such as art, religion, politics and science. Each section of the book discusses a wide range of musicological writings and their correspondence with the language used to convey contemporary ideas such as the sublime, the ancient and modern debate, and, in particular, the theory of evolution. Bennett Zon reveals that through their application of metaphorical frameworks taken from art, religion and science, these writers and their work shed light on nineteenth-century perceptions of music history and illuminate the ways in which these disciplines affected notions of musical development."--Jacket.