A muse for the masses : ritual and music in an age of democratic revolution, 1770-1870 / Conrad L. Donakowski.

Author/creator Donakowski, Conrad L., 1936-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1977.
Description435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Words: the artist as propagandist, music as decoration. Children of the Enlightenment: music and eighteenth-century social psychology ; Singing the city of man: music as expression of mass feeling in the French revolution ; God in man's new age: religious rites as mass media during the Enlightenment -- Music: the artist as hero, music as communication. Memories of a pious childhood: traditional religion as counterculture among the European intelligentsia ; A musical return to the state of nature: the restoration of plain chant ; The cosmic opera: the quest for a total work of art in religion ; No man is an island: the liturgical music of utopian socialism ; Dilettantes, amateurs, and lovers: Romantic designs for popular aesthetic education through music ; Gothic revivals: the rebirth of religious lyricism in Britain ; God and people: manifestations of the Risorgimento through music -- Formulas: the artist as servant, music as insulation. Spiritual materialism: attempts to legislate aethetic standards ; Cor ad cor loquitur: John Henry Newman's nostalgia for an absolute.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 393-410) and index.
LCCN 77006228
ISBN0226156214 :

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML196.D63 M8 1977 ✔ Available Place Hold