B Zon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Zon |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Zon |
| SIGNATURE | ZON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7401-8989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sound Authorities
Journal Article Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Edward J. Gillin Get access Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Edward J. Gillin (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021; pp. 320. $50). Bennett Zon Bennett Zon Durham University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Engli…
Music in the West Country
When, in 1866, the nineteenth-century German scientist Ernst Haeckel coined the phrase ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ (in Generelle Morphologie der Organismen [1866], ii. 300), meaning, effectively, that the evolution of the individual recapitulates the evolution of the species, he probably did not have in mind book titles as an exemplar. But book titles always recapitulate in microcosm the macrocosm of the book they represent. Kevin Tumlinso…
Science and Religion
While nineteenth-century science and religion are commonly portrayed as being at war, this chapter uses musical contexts to test an alternative hypothesis: that science and religion were in fact compatible. It does that by tracking Anglo-European ideological changes in scientific and religious discourse, and explaining how music absorbed and reflected those changes across intellectually reciprocal environments. An introductory section outlines ke…
Music and Victorian Liberalism
Music
Because music is unable to communicate its meaning as directly as words, it has always relied upon thought to help convey its meaning. Nineteenth-century musical thought therefore comes in two interrelated forms: (1) as literature about music (‘music-in-thought’), such as music history, philosophy, or theology; and (2) as music itself (music-as-thought) written for soloists, instruments, and voices in secular or sacred contexts like the concert h…
The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss
Science, Theology, and the Simplicity of Chant
There were two kinds of chant in Victorian Britain - one theological, the other scientific: Gregorian chant, the traditional music of the church; and primitive chant, the earliest human music. Because of their rudimentary nature Victorians described them as 'simple'. This essay explores how science and theology used simplicity to help define themselves through chant. It begins with an exploration of the 'war' between the two disciplines; then exa…
Bedazzled by Breakthrough
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From great man to fittest survivor
The transposition of the Great Man into the Fittest Survivor is at the very root of an endemic interchange between the sciences and the arts in late Victorian culture, giving rich metaphoric substance to more heavily concretised scientific terminology. Herbert Spencer's famous phrase, “survival of the fittest” is, arguably, one of the most commonly transposed and consequently influential scientific expressions of the Victorian period, and as such…
The Pursuit of High Culture
As a literary genre, biography has always been immensely popular. As Jolanta Pekacz says, it ‘satisfies the readers’ curiosity about other people's lives and in the case of artistic lives it is supposed to provide a framework within which the creative output can somehow be related to the artistic life’ (Jolanta T. Pekacz (ed.), Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms (Aldershot, 2006), 1). As a musicological genre, however, biography has had its…
Loathsome London
The dystopia of the Victorian city is ubiquitous as a trope of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, appearing across a wide array of literature in fiction, poetry, pamphlets, articles, reviews, socio-demographic works, socialist tracts, and miscellaneous papers. Anti-urbanism plays a prominent role in Dickens, Kingsley, and Gissing, to name but a few, and emerges in more pointedly sociological titles such as Andrew Mearns's The Bit…
Lectures on Musical Life
Journal Article Lectures on Musical Life: William Sterndale Bennett. Ed. By Nicholas Temperley and Yunchung Yang Get access Lectures on Musical Life: William Sterndale Bennett. Ed. By Nicholas Temperley and Yunchung Yang. pp. x + 182. British Music 1600–1900. ( The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2006, £45. ISBN 1-84383-2720.) Bennett Zon Bennett Zon Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mu…
Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain
Cultural Anthropology after Darwin
More Than the Sum of the Life of Its Several Parts”
Death's Bright Angels
The English Plainchant Revival
This study provides a general introduction to the sources of the plainchant revival in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Part I examines the eighteenth-century Catholic revival, in particular the work of John Frances Wade, a Roman Catholic plainchant scribe and publisher. His work centred on the Roman Catholic foreign embassy chapels in London during the waning years of the recusancy period, and his collaboration with contemporary publi…
Loathsome London
The dystopia of the Victorian city is ubiquitous as a trope of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, appearing across a wide array of literature in fiction, poetry, pamphlets, articles, reviews, socio-demographic works, socialist tracts, and miscellaneous papers. Anti-urbanism plays a prominent role in Dickens, Kingsley, and Gissing, to name but a few, and emerges in more pointedly sociological titles such as Andrew Mearns's The Bit…
The English Plainchant Revival
This study provides a general introduction to the sources of the plainchant revival in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Part I examines the eighteenth-century Catholic revival, in particular the work of John Frances Wade, a Roman Catholic plainchant scribe and publisher. His work centred on the Roman Catholic foreign embassy chapels in London during the waning years of the recusancy period, and his collaboration with contemporary publi…
Death's Bright Angels
Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain
Cultural Anthropology after Darwin
More Than the Sum of the Life of Its Several Parts”
Lectures on Musical Life
Journal Article Lectures on Musical Life: William Sterndale Bennett. Ed. By Nicholas Temperley and Yunchung Yang Get access Lectures on Musical Life: William Sterndale Bennett. Ed. By Nicholas Temperley and Yunchung Yang. pp. x + 182. British Music 1600–1900. ( The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2006, £45. ISBN 1-84383-2720.) Bennett Zon Bennett Zon Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mu…
From great man to fittest survivor
The transposition of the Great Man into the Fittest Survivor is at the very root of an endemic interchange between the sciences and the arts in late Victorian culture, giving rich metaphoric substance to more heavily concretised scientific terminology. Herbert Spencer's famous phrase, “survival of the fittest” is, arguably, one of the most commonly transposed and consequently influential scientific expressions of the Victorian period, and as such…
The Pursuit of High Culture
As a literary genre, biography has always been immensely popular. As Jolanta Pekacz says, it ‘satisfies the readers’ curiosity about other people's lives and in the case of artistic lives it is supposed to provide a framework within which the creative output can somehow be related to the artistic life’ (Jolanta T. Pekacz (ed.), Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms (Aldershot, 2006), 1). As a musicological genre, however, biography has had its…
Loathsome London
The dystopia of the Victorian city is ubiquitous as a trope of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, appearing across a wide array of literature in fiction, poetry, pamphlets, articles, reviews, socio-demographic works, socialist tracts, and miscellaneous papers. Anti-urbanism plays a prominent role in Dickens, Kingsley, and Gissing, to name but a few, and emerges in more pointedly sociological titles such as Andrew Mearns's The Bit…
Bedazzled by Breakthrough
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss
Science, Theology, and the Simplicity of Chant
There were two kinds of chant in Victorian Britain - one theological, the other scientific: Gregorian chant, the traditional music of the church; and primitive chant, the earliest human music. Because of their rudimentary nature Victorians described them as 'simple'. This essay explores how science and theology used simplicity to help define themselves through chant. It begins with an exploration of the 'war' between the two disciplines; then exa…
Music
Because music is unable to communicate its meaning as directly as words, it has always relied upon thought to help convey its meaning. Nineteenth-century musical thought therefore comes in two interrelated forms: (1) as literature about music (‘music-in-thought’), such as music history, philosophy, or theology; and (2) as music itself (music-as-thought) written for soloists, instruments, and voices in secular or sacred contexts like the concert h…
Music and Victorian Liberalism
Music in the West Country
When, in 1866, the nineteenth-century German scientist Ernst Haeckel coined the phrase ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ (in Generelle Morphologie der Organismen [1866], ii. 300), meaning, effectively, that the evolution of the individual recapitulates the evolution of the species, he probably did not have in mind book titles as an exemplar. But book titles always recapitulate in microcosm the macrocosm of the book they represent. Kevin Tumlinso…
Science and Religion
While nineteenth-century science and religion are commonly portrayed as being at war, this chapter uses musical contexts to test an alternative hypothesis: that science and religion were in fact compatible. It does that by tracking Anglo-European ideological changes in scientific and religious discourse, and explaining how music absorbed and reflected those changes across intellectually reciprocal environments. An introductory section outlines ke…
Sound Authorities
Journal Article Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Edward J. Gillin Get access Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Edward J. Gillin (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021; pp. 320. $50). Bennett Zon Bennett Zon Durham University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Engli…
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