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Author:   Dr. James Grande (Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK) ,  Dr. Brian H. Murray (Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.369kg
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9781501376412

ISBN 10:   1501376411
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Contributors 1. Introduction James Grande, King's College London, UK, and Brian H. Murray, King's College London, UK 2. The Ballad and the Bible Oskar Cox Jensen, Newcastle University, UK 3. The Movements of the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune Jonathan Hicks, University of Aberdeen, UK 4. ‘The Son of God goes forth to war’: The Imperial Martyr’s Hymnbook Brian H. Murray, King’s College London, UK 5. The Song of Zion in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Sacred Choral Music, Emancipation and Modernity in Jewish Liturgy Rachel Adelstein, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel, New Haven, CT, USA 6. A Temperament of ‘ideal cast, lofty tone, sacrificial flame and haughty purity’: Jenny Lind’s Faith and Her Career Matildie Wium, University of the Free State, South Africa 7. Urban Hymns: The Sacred Harmonic Society and Exeter Hall James Grande, King’s College London, UK 8. Singing, Playing, Seeing: Scripture and the Multi-Sensorial Gothic Revival in Late Victorian Church Interiors Ayla Lepine, St. James' Church, Piccadilly, London, UK 9. Secularising the Sacred, Sanctifying the Commercial: Tonic Sol-fa and the Professionalisation of Evangelical Hymnody Erin Johnson-Williams, University of Southampton, UK 10. Antisemitism and Hebrew Music in Carl Engel’s Music of the Most Ancient Nations (1864) Bennett Zon, Durham University, UK Bibliography Index

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""Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain is one of the most exciting and important collections in the field of 19th-century studies to come along in many a year. In response to this well-researched, path-breaking volume, everyone interested in the Victorians ought to sing out a hearty hallelujah."" --Timothy Larsen, author of A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (2011) ""This illuminating investigation of 'sacred song as an expression of communal and confessional solidarity but also enthusiastic dissent' reveals the myriad relationships between scripture and song in the nineteenth century, ranging from street ballads to psalmody, and from concert-hall and drawing room to church and synagogue. If on one hand the volume emphasizes the presence of the Bible in vocal music-making of all genres, on the other it underlines the centrality of song in religious utterance. Voices raised in prayer, sorrow, anger and jubilation sound throughout this interdisciplinary collection of essays in a moving evocation of spiritual communication with the divine, be that devotion or interrogation. In this way, James Grande and Brian Murray and their impressive assembly of scholars afford us the means of 'hearing' nineteenth-century society and its diverse, complex encounters with religion in a new, powerfully resonant way."" --Susan Rutherford, Honorary Professor in Music, University of Cambridge, UK ""Delving into the complex world of nineteenth-century culture, this captivating volume explores the dynamic relationship between music and religion. With meticulous scholarship, it traces how music both shaped and reflected the complex interplay of faith, identity, and society, resonating through time as a testament to the profound interconnection between art and spirituality."" --Markus Rathey, Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History, Yale University, USA, and author of Bach in the World: Music, Society, and Representation in Bach's Cantatas (2022) ""Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a valuable contribution to the studies of music and religion in the long nineteenth century, bridging previously unacknowledged gaps between British world and empire, center and periphery. From hymnody and Jewish liturgical music to evolutionary science, the essays offer refreshing insights into sacred song's mediation of social, religious, cultural, institutional and even scientific contexts."" --Eftychia Papanikolaou, Associate Professor of Musicology, Bowling Green State University, USA, and co-editor of Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall ""Music and religion, a hot topic in many periods of conventional music history, is often ignored in nineteenth-century music studies. This fascinating book, written from an array of interdisciplinary perspectives, demonstrates what is lost, in particular how scripture and song resonated together in so many ways: within compositional and performative worlds, of course; but also - and more surprisingly - within the biographical, philosophical, architectural and anthropological contexts of nineteenth-century Britain."" --Roger Parker, co-author of A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years

"""Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain is one of the most exciting and important collections in the field of 19th-century studies to come along in many a year. In response to this well-researched, path-breaking volume, everyone interested in the Victorians ought to sing out a hearty hallelujah."" --Timothy Larsen, author of A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (2011) ""This illuminating investigation of 'sacred song as an expression of communal and confessional solidarity but also enthusiastic dissent' reveals the myriad relationships between scripture and song in the nineteenth century, ranging from street ballads to psalmody, and from concert-hall and drawing room to church and synagogue. If on one hand the volume emphasizes the presence of the Bible in vocal music-making of all genres, on the other it underlines the centrality of song in religious utterance. Voices raised in prayer, sorrow, anger and jubilation sound throughout this interdisciplinary collection of essays in a moving evocation of spiritual communication with the divine, be that devotion or interrogation. In this way, James Grande and Brian Murray and their impressive assembly of scholars afford us the means of 'hearing' nineteenth-century society and its diverse, complex encounters with religion in a new, powerfully resonant way."" --Susan Rutherford, Honorary Professor in Music, University of Cambridge, UK ""Delving into the complex world of nineteenth-century culture, this captivating volume explores the dynamic relationship between music and religion. With meticulous scholarship, it traces how music both shaped and reflected the complex interplay of faith, identity, and society, resonating through time as a testament to the profound interconnection between art and spirituality."" --Markus Rathey, Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History, Yale University, USA, and author of Bach in the World: Music, Society, and Representation in Bach's Cantatas (2022) ""Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a valuable contribution to the studies of music and religion in the long nineteenth century, bridging previously unacknowledged gaps between British world and empire, center and periphery. From hymnody and Jewish liturgical music to evolutionary science, the essays offer refreshing insights into sacred song's mediation of social, religious, cultural, institutional and even scientific contexts."" --Eftychia Papanikolaou, Associate Professor of Musicology, Bowling Green State University, USA, and co-editor of Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall ""Music and religion, a hot topic in many periods of conventional music history, is often ignored in nineteenth-century music studies. This fascinating book, written from an array of interdisciplinary perspectives, demonstrates what is lost, in particular how scripture and song resonated together in so many ways: within compositional and performative worlds, of course; but also - and more surprisingly - within the biographical, philosophical, architectural and anthropological contexts of nineteenth-century Britain."" --Roger Parker, co-author of A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years"

Author Information

James Grande is Senior Lecturer in eighteenth-century Literature at King’s College London, UK. He is the author of William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England (2014) and co-editor of William Hazlitt: The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays (2021) and Sound and Sense in British Romanticism (2023). Brian H. Murray is Senior Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at King’s College London, UK. He is co-editor of Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form (2014), Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World (2017), and Chosen Peoples: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (2020).

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