Author: Stephen Groves
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000985911
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth- century English vocal music, this study restores English music’s relationship with the picturesque. In the eighteenth century, the emerging taste for the picturesque was central to British aesthetics, as poets and painters gained popularity by glorifying the local landscape in works concurrent with the emergence of native countryside tourism. Yet English music was seldom discussed as a medium for conveying national scenic beauty. Stephen Groves explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee, and national theatre music expressed a uniquely English engagement with landscape. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Groves addresses the apparent ‘silence’ of the English picturesque. The book draws on analysis of the visualisations present in the texts of English vocal music, and their musical treatment, to demonstrate how local composers incorporated celebrations of landscape into their works. The final chapter shows that the English picturesque was a crucial influence on Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons. Suitable for anyone with an interest in eighteenth- century music, aesthetics, and the natural environment, this book will appeal to a wide range of specialists and non- specialists alike.
The Sound of the English Picturesque
Author: Stephen Groves
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000985911
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth- century English vocal music, this study restores English music’s relationship with the picturesque. In the eighteenth century, the emerging taste for the picturesque was central to British aesthetics, as poets and painters gained popularity by glorifying the local landscape in works concurrent with the emergence of native countryside tourism. Yet English music was seldom discussed as a medium for conveying national scenic beauty. Stephen Groves explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee, and national theatre music expressed a uniquely English engagement with landscape. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Groves addresses the apparent ‘silence’ of the English picturesque. The book draws on analysis of the visualisations present in the texts of English vocal music, and their musical treatment, to demonstrate how local composers incorporated celebrations of landscape into their works. The final chapter shows that the English picturesque was a crucial influence on Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons. Suitable for anyone with an interest in eighteenth- century music, aesthetics, and the natural environment, this book will appeal to a wide range of specialists and non- specialists alike.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000985911
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth- century English vocal music, this study restores English music’s relationship with the picturesque. In the eighteenth century, the emerging taste for the picturesque was central to British aesthetics, as poets and painters gained popularity by glorifying the local landscape in works concurrent with the emergence of native countryside tourism. Yet English music was seldom discussed as a medium for conveying national scenic beauty. Stephen Groves explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee, and national theatre music expressed a uniquely English engagement with landscape. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Groves addresses the apparent ‘silence’ of the English picturesque. The book draws on analysis of the visualisations present in the texts of English vocal music, and their musical treatment, to demonstrate how local composers incorporated celebrations of landscape into their works. The final chapter shows that the English picturesque was a crucial influence on Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons. Suitable for anyone with an interest in eighteenth- century music, aesthetics, and the natural environment, this book will appeal to a wide range of specialists and non- specialists alike.
The British Switzerland; or, Picturesque rambles in the English lake district, from drawings by T. Allom, with descriptive letterpress by T. Rose
Author: Thomas Rose (topographical writer.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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The Rhine and its picturesque scenery, illustr. by B. Foster. [2 vols. Vol.2 is entitled The upper Rhine].
Author: Henry Mayhew
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Picturesque America
Author: William Cullen Bryant
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Category : Descripciones y viajes
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
A delineation by pen and pencilof the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests water-falls, shores, caqons, walleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country.
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Category : Descripciones y viajes
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
A delineation by pen and pencilof the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests water-falls, shores, caqons, walleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country.
Picturesque America. Volume 1. Part 1.
Author: William Bryant
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369400429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton and 's Journal. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant and (1794-1878 and ), who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and concept was similar to that of Picturesque Europe. The work and 's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States.
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369400429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton and 's Journal. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant and (1794-1878 and ), who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and concept was similar to that of Picturesque Europe. The work and 's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States.
Framley Parsonage
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Writings of Anthony Trollope: Framley parsonage
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Chronicles of Barsetshire
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The Chronicles of Barsetshire: Doctor Thorne
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Can you forgive her
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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