Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations

by Ruth A. Solie

Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for the muffled, even subterranean, conversations that reveal so much about what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238451
• ISBN13: 9780520238459
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"