The Lost Chord Essays on Victorian Music / edited by Nicholas Temperley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Temperley, Nicholas, Editor.

Contributor:

Temperley, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music.

Music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 180 pages) : illustrations, music

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1989

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Lost Chord is a pioneering effort to establish the place of music in the life and literature of Victorian Britain and to establish its value as art. In an introductory essay, Nicholas Temperley gives a detailed assessment of the current state of research in this field and examines the reasons for the relative obscurity of most Victorian music, which he traces to the Victorians' own belief that great music must come from across the Channel. The intrinsic value of Victorian music is the main message of Peter Horton's essay on Samuel Sebastian Wesley and Linda K. Hughes's critical study of Arthur Somervall's song cycle on Tennyson's Maud; but both also examine the proper function of music, a subject that greatly concerned many Victorian writers and thinkers. Among them was John Ruskin, whose ideas and musical compositions are explored by William J. Gatens. The function of music in education is the subject of Bernarr Rainbow's essay, while Mary Burgan surveys the treatment of music as an occupation for women in nineteenth-century fiction. Robert Bledsoe investigates the reception of a great Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi, by Victorian critics and audiences. Since, as Temperley points out, serious Victorian music is difficult for the general reader to locate, the book is accompanied by a special cassette recording of music to illustrate some of the essays.

Contents:

Introduction : the state of research on Victorian music / Nicholas Temperley

Rise of popular music education in nineteenth-century England / Bernarr Rainbow

Heroines at the piano : women and music in nineteenth-century fiction / Mary Burgan

John Ruskin and music / William J. Gatens

Samuel Sebastian Wesley at Leeds : a Victorian church musician reflects on his craft / Peter Horton

From parlor to concert hall : Arthur Somervell's song-cycle on Tennyson's Maud / Linda K. Hughes

Henry Fothergill Chorley and the reception of Verdi's early operas in England / Robert Bledsoe

Musical nationalism in English romantic opera / Nicholas Temperley.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05565-2

OCLC:

1259584504