Edwardian Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Music in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View
2001; University of California Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/ncm.2001.25.2-3.266
ISSN1533-8606
Autores Tópico(s)Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
ResumoIn A Room with a View (1908), Lucy Honeychurch is a pianist whose repertoire choices, Beethoven's Sonata op. 111, pieces by Schumann and Mozart, operatic transcriptions from Gluck's Armide and Wagner'sParsifal, and Lucy Ashton's song from Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor, chart her decline into a full-blown Forsterian "muddle." E. M. Forster selected this repertoire with scrupulous attention to its signifying power and in accordance with his musical enthusiasms. By way of this close analysis of its musical world through the lens of recent reception theory, the novel emerges as a revealing document of musical taste in turn-of-the-century England.
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