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Music and the Aesthetic in Worship and Collective Singing: England since 1840

Author: David Martin

Published in: Society | Issue 6/2016

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The article surveys the course of the tension within Christianity over the role of the aesthetic in music for worship and in religious music more widely, from Augustine to the present day. It outlines the recurrent features of debate. It then focuses specifically on England, beginning with the tension over the aesthetic in music during the sixteenth century Reformation and in the two subsequent centuries. It looks at major changes, such as the autonomy of the aesthetic, associated with nineteenth century romanticism. The main section of the article traces debates over both church music and mass collective singing, in part as they bear on the construction of national identity. The article concludes with developments in Evangelicalism and in spirituality in a secular society.

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David Martin Ruin and Restoration: on Violence, Liturgy and Reconciliation London and New York: Routledge, 2016

James Kennaway Bad Vibrations: the History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease Routledge: New York, 2012, chap. 1. This approach translates moral panics over certain kinds of music into a medical discourse.

Andrew Gant O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music London: Profile Books, 2015, p. 183.

C.Michael Hawn and June Hadden Hobbs “Thy Love....Hath Broken Every Barrier Down’: the Rhetoric of Intimacy in Nineteenth Century British and American Women’s Hymns’ in Martin V.Clarke (ed.) Music and Theology in Nineteenth Century Britain Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 61–78

Ryan Minor Choral Fantasies: Music, Festivity, and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Alexander Ringer ‘The Rise of Urban Musical Life between the Revolutions, 1789–1848’ chap. 1 in Alexander Ringer (ed.) The Early Romantic Era Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848 New Jersey :Prentice Hall, 1991

Carl Dahlhaus Between Romanticism and Modernism: Four Studies in the Music of the Later Nineteenth Century Berkeley; University of California Press, 1980, chap.1

Kirstie Blair Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

T.E.Muir Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914 A Handmaid of the Liturgy Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

Stephen Banfield ‘The Artist and Society’ chap. 1 Nicholas Temperley (ed.) The Romantic Age 1800–1914 Oxford: Blackwell, 1988

Donna di Grazia (ed.) Nineteenth Century Choral Music New York: Routledge, 2013

The case of Duruflé nicely illustrates the politics of different kinds of church music. His Requiem was originally composed in response to a competition that was part of Vichy’s support for the Catholic Church and its music, but only completed in 1947, when a very different government was in power.

Willian J. Gatens Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Nicholas Temperley ‘Cathedral Music’ in Nicholas Temperley (ed.) The Romantic Age 1800–1914 Oxford: Blackwell, 1988, p. 199 et seq.

William Gatens, p. 54.

John Butt ‘Choral Music and the Regeneration of the Organ’ chap. 18 in Jim Sansom (ed.) Nineteenth Century Music Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, especially comments on Brahms and the personal definition of religion, p. 533 et seq.

Jonathan Arnold Sacred Music in Secular Society Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.

Jeanne Halgren Kilde When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth Century America Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002

Joseph Herl Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation and Three Centuries of Conflict Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Mark Porter ‘Marginal Musical Spaces at St. Aldate’s, Oxford’ Journal of Contemporary Religion Vol. 31, No.2, May 2016, pp. 239–254

Tom Beaudoin (ed.) Secular Music and Sacred Theology Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2013

David Martin op.cit.

Nathan O. Hilgarten in ‘The Harvard Crimson’ April 29, 2012, an account of a talk by Alex Ross ‘Finding God in Twentieth Century Music’.

Title: Music and the Aesthetic in Worship and Collective Singing: England since 1840
Author: David Martin
Publication date: 26-10-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 6/2016
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0078-5

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