Figures of the Imagination Fiction and Song in Britain, 1790-1850 Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Series
Auteur : Hansford Roger
This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people?s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance novels by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Edward Bulwer and Charles Kingsley in the period 1790?1850, interrogating the ways that music served to create mood and atmosphere, enlivened social scenes and contributed to plot developments. He explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their intersection as examples of material culture. Hansford?s intersectional reading revolves around a series of imaginative figures ? including the minstrel, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, and witches, and Christians engaged both in virtue and vice ? the identities of which remained consistent as influence passed between the art forms. While romance authors quoted song lyrics and included musical descriptions and characters, their novels recorded and modelled the performance of songs by the middle and upper classes, influencing the work of composers and the actions of performers who read romance fiction.
Introduction: Music and Romance in the Early Nineteenth Century
1 ‘Raise the Song and Strike the Harp’: Minstrelsy, Balladeering, and Romance Fiction, 1790–1830
2 ‘This Horrible Stave They Howl’: The Supernatural in Fiction and Song, 1790–1830
3 ‘Angels Round thy Throne are Hymning’: Christian Virtue in Fiction and Song, 1790–1830
4 ‘Her Voice is Hovering o’er my Soul’: Siren Singers and Received Intersections in Fiction and Song, 1830–1850
Conclusion: Figures of the Imagination: the Intersection of Fiction and Song, 1790–1850
Roger Hansford holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Southampton. He has taught on university music history courses and delivered research papers at conferences throughout the UK. His current research interests revolve around nineteenth-century romanticism, particularly music in nineteenth-century Britain and its cultural contexts.
Date de parution : 02-2019
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Mots-clés :
Young Men; Figure of the imagination; Maestro Di Cappella; Minstrelsy; Oriental Tales; Balladeering; John Wall Callcott; Romance Fiction; Dotted Quaver Rhythm; Supernatural; Lewis’s Figures; Siren singers; Fairy Songs; Angels; Supernatural Figures; Ballad Editors; Minstrel Figure; Romance Elements; Water King; Supernatural Song; Fair Imogine; E-flat Major; Aeolian Harp; Print Culture; Evening Hymns; Victorian Print Culture; Earlier Print Culture; Morning Hymn; Music Sellers; Domenico Corri; Deeper Philosophical Level