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Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology (Paperback)
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Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology (Paperback)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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'In a word, I shall endeavour to show how our music, having been
originally a shell-fish, with its restrictive skeleton on the
outside and no soul within, has been developed by the inevitable
laws of evolution, through natural selection and the survival of
the fittest, into something human, even divine, with the strong,
logical skeleton of its science inside, the fair flesh of God-given
beauty outside, and the whole, like man himself, animated by a
celestial, eternal spirit....' W.J. Henderson, The Story of Music
(1889) Critical writing about music and music history in
nineteenth-century Britain was permeated with metaphor and analogy.
Music and Metaphor examines how over-arching 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.
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