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The Power of Sound: Evolutionary Naturalism and Music in Anglo-American Victorian Culture (2005)

Brotman, Charles M. (Author)

University of Rochester
Rubin, Joan Shelley

Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Advisor: Rubin, Joan Shelley
Physical Details: 305 pp.
Language: English

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Naturalism (philosophy) Music theory Music Evolution 19th century Darwin, Charles Robert Spencer, Herbert

This dissertation examines the genesis of music theorizing in the work of Anglo-American evolutionary naturalists in the Victorian period. Taking a cue from scholarship on the cultural dimensions of scientific practices, it argues that music was an important part of the social fabric that shaped the contours and direction of scientific theorizing. Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer published competing theories on the origin of music that reflected their immersion in a musical culture as well as their broader interest in understanding "man's place in nature." Their aesthetics, in turn, generated interest from contemporaries in the emerging fields of psychology and anthropology. By the turn of the century, evolutionists focused on the rhythmic component of music paved the way for the emergence of a more culturally oriented approach to music theory that signified a transformation in the broader scientific and musical culture that had sustained the work of Darwin and Spencer.

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Description “Examines the genesis of music theorizing in the work of Anglo-American evolutionary naturalists.” (from the abstract) Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/03 (2005): 1127. UMI pub. no. 3169565.

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