« God's alphabet » : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight

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...

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第一著者: Specq, François
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spelling cairn-RFEA_117_0006RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2008-3-page-6?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.117.0006 « God's alphabet » : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight Specq, François2008 Aesthetic PapersCharles IvesesthétiqueJohn Sullivan Dwightmodernismemusique du 19e siècletranscendantalisme19th-century musicAesthetic PapersaestheticsCharles IvesJohn Sullivan DwightmodernismTranscendentalismfre Revue française d’études américaines | 117 | 3 | 2008-12-09 | p. 6-25 | 0397-7870 RFEA_11764 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.Cairn free access
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topic Aesthetic Papers
Charles Ives
esthétique
John Sullivan Dwight
modernisme
musique du 19e siècle
transcendantalisme
19th-century music
Aesthetic Papers
aesthetics
Charles Ives
John Sullivan Dwight
modernism
Transcendentalism
spellingShingle Aesthetic Papers
Charles Ives
esthétique
John Sullivan Dwight
modernisme
musique du 19e siècle
transcendantalisme
19th-century music
Aesthetic Papers
aesthetics
Charles Ives
John Sullivan Dwight
modernism
Transcendentalism
Specq, François
« God's alphabet » : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight
topic_facet Aesthetic Papers
Charles Ives
esthétique
John Sullivan Dwight
modernisme
musique du 19e siècle
transcendantalisme
19th-century music
Aesthetic Papers
aesthetics
Charles Ives
John Sullivan Dwight
modernism
Transcendentalism
description 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.
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title « God's alphabet » : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight
title_short « God's alphabet » : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight
title_full « God's alphabet » : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight
title_fullStr « God's alphabet » : le transcendantalisme musical de John Sullivan Dwight
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