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"Vibrating through all its breadth": Musical Fiction and Materialist Aesthetics in the Strand Musical Magazine

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Pubblicato in:Victorian Periodicals Review vol. 51, no. 1 (Spring 2018), p. 1
Autore principale: Draucker, Shannon
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Soggetti:
New York
United Kingdom > UK
England
Physiology
Physics
Idealism
Victorian period
Magazines
Musical performances
Composers
Sheet music
19th century
Aesthetics
Ears & hearing
Classical music
Sound
Advertisements
Anatomical systems
Acoustics
Music
Hearing
Fiction
Human body
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Abstract:The aims of the Strand Musical Magazine were largely practical in nature: articles and advertisements provided information about concerts, festivals, and other events on the Victorian music calendar. Yet, as this essay argues, it also (perhaps unwittingly) participated in key nineteenth-century aesthetic and scientific debates about music's ties to the human body. In several of the short stories published in the Strand Musical Magazine, characters cry, throb, convulse, quiver, and sweat while playing or hearing music. These corporeal events correspond with emerging acoustical and physiological science that understood music in terms of sound waves and bodily vibrations. The Strand Musical Magazine conceived of music not as an intangible, transcendent phenomenon but as a material force rooted in the science of sound.
ISSN:0709-4698
1712-526X
0049-6189
DOI:10.1353/vpr.2018.0000
Fonte:Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database