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The Sound of the English Picturesque: Georgian Vocal Music, Haydn, and Landscape Aesthetics book cover

1st Edition

The Sound of the English Picturesque Georgian Vocal Music, Haydn, and Landscape Aesthetics

By Stephen Groves Copyright 2024
266 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

List of figures

List of musical examples

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I

1 Coloured for sight and sound: picturesque landscapes and the muse

2 An English picturesque absence?

3 The abstract and the colloquial picturesque

PART II

4 Walks and prospect views: solo song and the glee in England

5 From Lake Windermere to the Bay of Naples: picturesque scenery, subjects and situations in English musical theatre

6 The picturesque oratorio: Haydn’s art in nature’s clothing

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Stephen Groves completed his PhD at Southampton University in 2012. He previously held posts as Teacher of Academic Music and Head of Strings at Merchant Taylors’ School, and Director of Music at Watford Grammar School for Girls. He is currently editor of www.greatbritishwine.com.

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