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'God's alphabet' : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight
- Source :
- Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, Paris : Association Française d'études américaines, 2008, pp.6-25, Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, 2008, N° 2008-3, pp.6-25
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2008.
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Abstract
- "This article explores the roots of the American art music tradition in the aesthetics of John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893), the most influential writer on music in 19th century America. As a Brook Farmer and a former Unitarian minister, Dwight articulated a conception of music simultaneously endowed with deep spiritual content and social import. Steeped in the literary and musical traditions of German Romanticism, especially the works of Schiller and Beethoven, Dwight's musical Transcendentalism echoed many of Emerson's themes and contributed to fashioning the key notions that nurtured the aesthetic tradition in which Charles Ives was raised. His utopian musical anthropology turned music into a form of spiritual experience reorienting our relation to the world and thus foreshadowing the refounding of society."
- Subjects :
- Cultural Studies
Literature
Transcendentalism
modernism
19th-century music
Sociology and Political Science
business.industry
Philosophy
Art history
Musical
language.human_language
Key (music)
German
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Religious experience
John Sullivan Dwight
Visual art of the United States
aesthetics
language
business
Content (Freudian dream analysis)
Romanticism
Relation (history of concept)
Aesthetic Papers
Charles Ives
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- French
- ISSN :
- 03977870 and 17763061
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, Paris : Association Française d'études américaines, 2008, pp.6-25, Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, 2008, N° 2008-3, pp.6-25
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6182c18aa1a74b9d7997117f36d65e22