The Sound of the English Picturesque: Georgian Vocal Music, Haydn, and Landscape Aesthetics

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Stephen Groves

The Sound of the English Picturesque

Georgian Vocal Music, Haydn, and Landscape Aesthetics

Stephen Groves

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Routledge
04 December 2023

History of art: ancient & classical art; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Series: Music and Visual Culture

Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music, this study restores English music’s relationship with the picturesque. In the eighteenth century, the emerging taste for the picturesque was central to British aesthetics, as poets and painters gained popularity by glorifying the local landscape in works concurrent with the emergence of native countryside tourism. Yet English music was seldom discussed as a medium for conveying national scenic beauty. Stephen Groves explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee, and national theatre music expressed a uniquely English engagement with landscape.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Groves addresses the apparent ‘silence’ of the English picturesque. The book draws on analysis of the visualisations present in the texts of English vocal music, and their musical treatment, to demonstrate how local composers incorporated celebrations of landscape into their works. The final chapter shows that the English picturesque was a crucial influence on Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons. Suitable for anyone with an interest in eighteenth-century music, aesthetics, and the natural environment, this book will appeal to a wide range of specialists and non-specialists alike.

By: Stephen Groves
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9781032275703
ISBN 10: 1032275707
Series: Music and Visual Culture
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 04 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures List of musical examples Acknowledgements Introduction PART I 1 Coloured for sight and sound: picturesque landscapes and the muse 2 An English picturesque absence? 3 The abstract and the colloquial picturesque PART II 4 Walks and prospect views: solo song and the glee in England 5 From Lake Windermere to the Bay of Naples: picturesque scenery, subjects and situations in English musical theatre 6 The picturesque oratorio: Haydn’s art in nature’s clothing Epilogue Bibliography Index

Stephen Groves completed his PhD at Southampton University in 2012. He previously held posts as Teacher of Academic Music and Head of Strings at Merchant Taylors’ School, and Director of Music at Watford Grammar School for Girls. He is currently editor of www.greatbritishwine.com.