Title Music and Victorian Liberalism : Composing the Liberal Subject

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Figures; Music Examples; Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Aesthetic Liberalism; Technologies of Liberalism: Government of the Self and Others; Aesthetic Liberalism; The Idea of 'Character'; Part I Cultivation and/as Control; 2 Musical Discipline and Victorian Liberal Reform; Liberal Education and Working-Class Drills; Autonomy or Automaton?; Conclusion: Sounding Liberal Discipline 3 'Brightening the Lives of the People on Sunday': The National Sunday League and Liberal Attitudes towards Concert Promotion in Victorian BritainThe Sunday Question and the National Sunday League; 'An Antidote to an Excessively Mechanical Existence'; Sunday Band Concerts in Public Parks; Sunday Evenings for the People: Oratorio; South Place: Chamber Music; Queen's Hall: Orchestral Music; Afterword; 4 Music and Mass Education: Cultivation or Control?; Music and the Victorian Public Institution; Music in 1840s Educational Reform; Views on Music Education from the Mid-Nineteenth Century Music and the 1870s ReformsConclusion; Part II Dissent, Individualism and Agency; 5 A Musical Presence among Liberal Thinkers: Eliza Flower and Her Circle, 1832-1845; Unitarianism, South Place and Liberal Thinking; Flower and Martineau: Music and Action; Flower and Fox: Music, the Poetic Imagination and 'Self-culture'; Flower, Taylor and Mill: Music, Aesthetics and the Notion of Genius; 6 'That More Liberal Mode of Life': Rosa Newmarch, Aestheticism and Queer Listening in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Part III Character and Emotion 7 Style, Character and Revelation in Parry's Fourth SymphonySymphony No. 4, 'Finding the Way': Style and Character; Style, Character and Musical Revelation in Parry's Writings; Conclusion; 8 The Parrys and Prometheus Unbound: Actualising Liberalism; Liberalism and Parry; Hubert and Maude; Gladstonian Analogy; Reception; Abbreviations; 9 Liberalism and Victorian Musical Sympathy; Liberalism; Sympathy; Liberal Musical Sympathy; Libertarianism; Egalitarianism; Conclusion; 10 Music and Character in the London Reception of Wagner: Conducting the Philharmonic, ca. 1855 11 Afterword: Liberalism in the RoundThe Beginning of the Nineteenth Century; The Latter Half of the Century; Selected Bibliography; Index Summary Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices Notes Print version record Subject Music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. MUSIC -- Reference. Liberalism Music Music -- Social aspects Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Collins, Sarah, 1984- ISBN 1108571743 9781108571746 9781108628778 110862877X

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