Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
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Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. From oratorio to opera, from parlour song to pantomime, and from hymn to broadside, nineteenth-century Britons continually encountered elements of the biblical past in song. Both elite and popular music came to play a significant role in the formation, regulation and contestation of religious and cultural identity and were used to address questions of class, nation and race, leading to the beginnings of ethnomusicology. This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together musicologists, historians, literary and art historians and theologians to reveal points of intersection between music, religion and cultural history.

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Yes, you can access Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Grande, Brian H. Murray, James Grande,Brian H. Murray in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Religious Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of contributors
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 The Ballad and the Bible
  10. 3 The Movements of the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune
  11. 4 ‘The Son of God goes forth to war’: The Imperial Martyr’s Hymnbook
  12. 5 The Song of Zion in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Sacred Choral Music, Emancipation and Modernity in Jewish Liturgy
  13. 6 A Temperament of ‘ideal cast, lofty tone, sacrificial flame and haughty purity’: Jenny Lind’s Faith and Her Career
  14. 7 Urban Hymns: The Sacred Harmonic Society and Exeter Hall
  15. 8 Singing, Playing, Seeing: Scripture and the Multi-Sensorial Gothic Revival in Late Victorian Church Interiors
  16. 9 Secularizing the Sacred, Sanctifying the Commercial: Tonic Sol-fa and the Professionalization of Evangelical Hymnody
  17. 10 Antisemitism and Hebrew Music in Carl Engel’s The Music of the Most Ancient Nations (1864)
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Copyright