The Music of the Most Ancient Nations
The Music of the Most Ancient Nations

Author: Carl Engel

Publisher: Ekho Verlag

Published: 2014-12-31

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 3944415094

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This is the first volume of a series of commented reprints, featuring re-discovered music-archaeological works from the 1860s to the 1920s, which are difficult available, but highly relevant for the history of science and contemporary research in the study field. Each volume features the reprinted work and comments by distinguished scholars, highlighting and discussing the scholarly achievements in the light of today.

Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture
Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

Author: Bennett Zon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1108326269

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This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the conceptual premise of modern debates in evolutionary musicology. Structured around the Great Chain of Being, chapters are organized by discipline in successively ascending order according to their object of study, from zoology and the study of animal music to theology and the music of God. Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture takes a non-Darwinian approach to the interpretation of Victorian scientific and musical interrelationships, debunking the idea that the arts had little influence on contemporary scientific ideas and, by probing the origins of musical interdisciplinarity, the volume shows how music helped ideas about evolution to evolve.

Renewal and Resistance
Renewal and Resistance

Author: Paul Collins

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9783039113811

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The Roman Catholic Church has always been concerned with the quality of the music used in the liturgy, and the essays in this volume trace the church's efforts, during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, to cultivate a more appropriate liturgical music for its Latin Rite. The task of restoration - expressed, for example, in the chant revival associated with the monks of Solesmes, the efforts of the Cecilian movement, and Pius X's determination to reform sacred music in the universal church - is a recurring theme in the book. Meanwhile resistance, particularly to the reforms decreed by the pope's 1903 motu proprio, also finds a voice in the volume. The essays collected here describe selected scenes and episodes from the unending story of imperfect human beings trying to express in their music the perfection of God.

Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain
Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain

Author: Bennett Zon

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781580462594

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Explores the influence of anthropological theories, travel literature, psychology, and other intellectual trends on the perception of non-Western music and elucidates the roots of today's field of ethnomusicology.