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The Enraged Musician - Hogarth's Musical Imagery (Paperback)
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The Enraged Musician - Hogarth's Musical Imagery (Paperback)
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More than 70 works of Hogarth include musical references, and
Jeremy Barlow's book is the first full-length work devoted to this
aspect of his imagery. The first two chapters examine the evidence
for Hogarth's interest in music and the problems of assessing
accuracy, realism and symbolic meaning in his musical
representations. Subsequent chapters show how musical details in
his works may often be interpreted as part of his satirical
weaponry; the starting point seems to have been his illustrations
of the clamorous 'rough music' protest in Samuel Butler's immensely
popular poem Hudibras. Hogarth's use of music for satirical
purposes also has connections with a particular type of burlesque
music in 18th-century England. It may be seen too in the roles
played by his humiliated fiddlers or abject ballad singers. Each of
the final two chapters focuses on a particular Hogarth subject: his
paintings of a scene from a theatrical satire of music and society,
The Beggar's Opera, and the print The Enraged Musician itself. The
latter work draws together uses of musical imagery discussed
previously and the book concludes with an analysis of its internal
relations from a musical perspective. The book is lavishly
illustrated with Hogarth's drawings, prints and paintings. Many
other images are reproduced to provide contextual background.
Several indices and appendices enhance the book's value as a
reference tool: these include an annotated index of Hogarth's
instruments, with photographs or other representations of the
instruments he depicts; a detailed index of Hogarth's works with
musical imagery; the texts and music for broadside ballads and
single-sheet songs related to Hogarth's titles; 18th-century texts
and street cries related to Hogarth's The Enraged Musician, and
other musical examples indicated in the text. Also included is a
facsimile of Bonnell Thornton's burlesque Ode on St CA|cilia's Day.
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