Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Contributors
1. Introduction
James Grande, King's College London, UK, and Brian H. Murray, King's College London, UK
2. The Ballad and the Bible
Oskar Cox Jensen, Newcastle University, UK
3. The Movements of the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune
Jonathan Hicks, University of Aberdeen, UK
4. 'The Son of God goes forth to war': The Imperial Martyr's Hymnbook
Brian H. Murray, King's College London, UK
5. The Song of Zion in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Sacred Choral Music, Emancipation and Modernity in Jewish Liturgy
Rachel Adelstein, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel, New Haven, CT, USA
6. A Temperament of 'ideal cast, lofty tone, sacrificial flame and haughty purity': Jenny Lind's Faith and Her Career
Matildie Wium, University of the Free State, South Africa
7. Urban Hymns: The Sacred Harmonic Society and Exeter Hall
James Grande, King's College London, UK
8. Singing, Playing, Seeing: Scripture and the Multi-Sensorial Gothic Revival in Late Victorian Church Interiors
Ayla Lepine, St. James' Church, Piccadilly, London, UK
9. Secularising the Sacred, Sanctifying the Commercial: Tonic Sol-fa and the Professionalisation of Evangelical Hymnody
Erin Johnson-Williams, University of Southampton, UK
10. Antisemitism and Hebrew Music in Carl Engel's Music of the Most Ancient Nations (1864)
Bennett Zon, Durham University, UK
Bibliography
Index
