Music and Victorian Liberalism

Collins, Sarah

doi:10.1017/9781108628778

2019

DOI: 10.1017/9781108628778

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Music and Victorian Liberalism

Sarah Collins¹

Abstract: But, while Arnold in some respects paved the way for Aestheticism at the end of the century, Parry did not follow that path, instead turning to the literature of social realism and deepening his exploration of character and ethics. 3 At the end of his 1

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Utility and the Pleasures of Musical Formalism: Edmund Gurney, Liberal Individualism, and Musical Beauty as ‘Ultimate’ Value

Collins

2019

Music and Letters

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Most contemporary assessments of Edmund Gurney’s musical thinking rely solely on his influential book The Power of Sound (1880), yet much of the work that appeared in this book was initially published in essay form in the liberal press, appearing alongside discussions of politics, economics, moral philosophy, and psychology. With this broader frame in mind, this article investigates the relationship between Gurney’s musical thinking and the traditions of utilitarianism, political economy, and liberalism through his association with Henry Sidgwick’s circle. It argues that one of the central tenets of Gurney’s musical formalism—namely the idea that there is an irreducibly ‘musical’ form of beauty—may be construed in relation to ‘liberal individualism’ as it was framed by the utilitarian liberals with whom he associated, who attempted to combine the cultivation of disinterestedness with the pursuit of pleasure as a means to attaining a balance between self-interest and the common good.

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Utility and the Pleasures of Musical Formalism: Edmund Gurney, Liberal Individualism, and Musical Beauty as ‘Ultimate’ Value

Collins

2019

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Religion in the Home—The Sacred Songs of the Drawing Room

Boyce-Tillman

2023

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The Victorian bourgeois ballad is a distinctive genre that demonstrates the spirituality of religion transferred to the drawing room. This paper will examine in detail four examples of the genre—The Lost Chord, The Holy City, Arise O Sun and The Volunteer Organist to examine the spirituality of the genre in terms of the materials used, the musical construction, the value system underpinning it and the expressive character. It will interrogate their relationship to the spirituality of Victorian Anglicanism and the place of this spirituality in the lives of the people with whom they were popular and its role in their social life, drawing on the author’s own experience. It was also a genre in which women excelled and this and the notion of spirituality will be examined culturally, drawing on Foucault’s notion of subjugated knowing.

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Music and Victorian Liberalism

Abstract: But, while Arnold in some respects paved the way for Aestheticism at the end of the century, Parry did not follow that path, instead turning to the literature of social realism and deepening his exploration of character and ethics. 3 At the end of his 1

Cited by 2 publications

References 135 publications

Utility and the Pleasures of Musical Formalism: Edmund Gurney, Liberal Individualism, and Musical Beauty as ‘Ultimate’ Value

Utility and the Pleasures of Musical Formalism: Edmund Gurney, Liberal Individualism, and Musical Beauty as ‘Ultimate’ Value

Religion in the Home—The Sacred Songs of the Drawing Room

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