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Towheed, Shafquat
(2010).
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41059791
Abstract
This essay examines Vernon Lee's wide-ranging, informed and often interdisciplinary reading about music, and demonstrates its centrality for her as a late 19th century intellectual preoccupation. Drawing upon unpublished sources (including commonplace books and marginalia), her reading of Gurney, Wundt, and Weismann, and exchanges with Ethel Smyth, I argue that Lee tried to bridge the increasing gap between professional musicians and mass audiences by examining how music might be assimilated and appreciated. Scrutinising Lee's distinction between active listening and passive hearing, this essay interrogates her determination to write not merely for musicians but for a non-specialist audience as well.
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- Item ORO ID
- 20186
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0306-2473
- Keywords
- Vernon Lee; interdisciplinary reading; music; commonplace books; marginalia; Edmund Gurney; Wilhelm Wundt; August Weismann; Dame Ethel Smyth; active listening; passive hearing; Reading Experience Database
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
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Literature and Music Research Group
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- Shafquat Towheed