Music Nature And Divine Knowledge In England 1650 1750
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Music Nature And Divine Knowledge In England 1650 1750
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Author : Tom Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023-05-16
Music Nature And Divine Knowledge In England 1650 1750 written by Tom Dixon and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-16 with categories.
During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many. What was the role of music in the early modern subject's sensory experience of divinity? While the English intellectuals Peter Sterry (1613-72), Richard Roach (1662-1730), William Stukeley (1687-1765) and David Hartley (1705-57), have not been remembered for their 'musicking', this book explores how the musical reflections of these individuals expressed alternative and often uncustomary conceptions of God, the world, and the human psyche. Music is always potentially present in their discourse, emerging as a crucial form of mediation between states: exoteric and esoteric, material and spiritual, outer and inner, public and private, rational and mystical. Dixon shows how Sterry, Roach, Stukeley and Hartley's shared belief in truly universal salvation was articulated through a language of music, implying a feminising influence that set these male individuals apart from contemporaries who often strictly emphasised the rational-i.e. the supposedly masculine-aspects of religion. Musical discourse, instead, provided a link to a spiritual plane that brought these intellectuals closer to 'ultimate reality'. Theirs was a discourse firmly rooted in the real existence of contemporary musical practices, both in terms of the forms and styles implied in the writings under discussion and the physical circumstances in which these musical genres were created and performed. Through exploring ways in which the idea of music was employed in written transmission of elite ideas, this book challenges conventional classifications of a seventeenth-century 'Scientific Revolution' and an eighteenth-century 'Enlightenment', defending an alternative narrative of continuity and change across a number of scholarly disciplines, from seventeenth-century English intellectual history and theology, to musicology and the social history of music.
Weighing The World
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Author : Russell McCormmach
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-12-07
Weighing The World written by Russell McCormmach and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-07 with Science categories.
The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other half are brought together in one place for the first time. The letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century: equally skilled in experiment and observation, mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter, he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings of nature.
The Figure Of Music In Nineteenth Century British Poetry
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Author : Phyllis Weliver
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Figure Of Music In Nineteenth Century British Poetry written by Phyllis Weliver and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture. Analysing how music took part in and commented on a wide range of scientific, literary, and cultural discourses, the book expands our knowledge of how music was central to the nineteenth-century imagination. Like its companion volume, The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (Ashgate, 2004) edited by Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff, this book provides a meeting place for literary studies and musicology, with contributions by scholars situated in each field. Areas investigated in these essays include the Romantic interest in national musical traditions; the figure of the Eolian harp in the poetry of Coleridge and Shelley; the recurring theme of music in Blake's verse; settings of Tennyson by Parry and Elgar that demonstrate how literary representations of musical ideas are refigured in music; George Eliot's use of music in her poetry to explore literary and philosophical themes; music in the verse of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the personification of lyric (Sappho) in a song cycle by Granville and Helen Bantock; and music and sexual identity in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, Michael Field, Beardsley, Gray and Davidson.
Day S Collacon An Encyclopaedia Of Prose Quotations
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language : en
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Release Date : 1884
Day S Collacon An Encyclopaedia Of Prose Quotations written by and has been published by London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Quotations, English categories.
The Event Of Music History
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Author : J. P. E. Harper-Scott
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
The Event Of Music History written by J. P. E. Harper-Scott and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with MUSIC categories.
Brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history.
History In Mighty Sounds
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Author : Barbara Eichner
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2012
History In Mighty Sounds written by Barbara Eichner and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
An indispensable study of nineteenth-century German music, history and nationalism. Music played a central role in the self-conception of middle-class Germans between the March Revolution of 1848 and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be 'universal' and thus apolitical, it participated- like the other arts - in the historicist project of shaping the nation's future by calling on the national heritage. Compositions based on - often heavily mythologised - historical events and heroes, such as the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest or the medieval Emperor Barbarossa, invited individual as well as collective identification and brought alive a past that compared favourably with contemporary conditions. History in Mighty Sounds mapsout a varied picture of these 'invented traditions' and the manifold ideas of 'Germanness' to which they gave rise, exemplified through works by familiar composers like Max Bruch or Carl Reinecke as well as their nowadays little-known contemporaries. The whole gamut of musical genres, ranging from pre- and post-Wagnerian opera to popular choruses to symphonic poems, contributes to a novel view of the many ways in which national identities were constructed, shaped and celebrated in and through music. How did artists adapt historical or literary sources to their purpose, how did they negotiate the precarious balance of aesthetic autonomy and political relevance, and how did notions of gender, landscape and religion influence artistic choices? All musical works are placed within their broader historical and biographical contexts, with frequent nods to other arts and popular culture. History in Mighty Sounds will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century German music, history and nationalism. Barbara Eichner is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Oxford Brookes University.
Performing Propaganda
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Author : Rachel Moore
language : en
Publisher: Music in Society and Culture
Release Date : 2018
Performing Propaganda written by Rachel Moore and has been published by Music in Society and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Music categories.
In the First World War, civilian life played a fundamental part in the war effort; and music was no exception.
Nation And Classical Music
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Author : Matthew Riley
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Nation And Classical Music written by Matthew Riley and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Music categories.
How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works?
The Learned Lady In England 1650 1760
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Author : Myra Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
The Learned Lady In England 1650 1760 written by Myra Reynolds and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Education categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760" by Myra Reynolds. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Classical And Romantic Performing Practice 1750 1900
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Author : Clive Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
Classical And Romantic Performing Practice 1750 1900 written by Clive Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"This is for all performers and students of Classical and Romantic music. It provides a textbook for the teaching of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performing practice in universities and colleges. It will also be a guide for the enquiring listener."--Jacket.