From ‘very acute and plausible’ to ‘curiously misinterpreted’: Sir William Jones’s ‘On the Musical Modes of the Hindus’ (1792) and its reception in later musical treatises

Zon, BM

Music Theology as the Mouthpiece of Science: Proving it through Congregational Music Studies (2021)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2021). Music Theology as the Mouthpiece of Science: Proving it through Congregational Music Studies. In A. Mall, J. Engelhardt, & M. M. Ingalls (Eds.), Studying congregational music : key issues, methods, and theoretical perspectives. Routledge

Science and Religion (2020)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2020). Science and Religion. In P. Watt, S. Collins, & M. Allis (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of music and intellectual culture in the nineteenth century,. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190616922.013.21

All Arts Aspire to the Condition of Musicology: Victorian Musicology as Interdiscipline (2019)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2019). All Arts Aspire to the Condition of Musicology: Victorian Musicology as Interdiscipline. In B. Lightman, & B. Zon (Eds.), Victorian culture and the origin of disciplines (283-307). CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429277139-13

This chapter traces the idea of an interdiscipline to Walter Pater’s famous adage ‘All art constantly aspires to the condition of music’. It utilizes Pater’s idea to identify the origin of Victorian musicology not as a discipline, but as an interdisc... Read More about All Arts Aspire to the Condition of Musicology: Victorian Musicology as Interdiscipline.

Liberalism and Victorian Musical Sympathy (2019)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2020). Liberalism and Victorian Musical Sympathy. In S. Collins (Ed.), Music and Victorian Liberalism (180-200). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108628778.009

Evolution (2017)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2017). Evolution. In D. Whistler (Ed.), The Edinburgh critical history of nineteenth-century Christian theology. Edinburgh University Press

Music (2017)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2017). Music. In J. Rasmussen, J. Wolfe, & J. Zachhuber (Eds.), Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century Christian thought (459-470). Oxford University Press

Spencer, Sympathy and the Oxford School of Music Criticism (2017)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2017). Spencer, Sympathy and the Oxford School of Music Criticism. In J. Dibble, & J. Horton (Eds.), British musical criticism and intellectual thought, 1850-1950. Boydell & Brewer

Carl Engel and the Non-Darwinian Revolution. (2014)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2014). Carl Engel and the Non-Darwinian Revolution. In Music of the Most Ancient Nations Commented Reprint (xxv-xxxii). Ekho

The ‘non-Darwinian’ revolution and the Great Chain of Musical Being (2014)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2014). The ‘non-Darwinian’ revolution and the Great Chain of Musical Being. In B. Lightman, & B. Zon (Eds.), Evolution and Victorian culture (196-226). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139236195.009

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Lightman, B., & Zon, B. (2014). Introduction. In B. Lightman, & B. Zon (Eds.), Evolution and Victorian culture (1-16). Cambridge University Press

The music of non-Western nations and the evolution of British ethnomusicology (2013)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2013). The music of non-Western nations and the evolution of British ethnomusicology. In P. V. Bohlman (Ed.), Cambridge history of world music (298-318). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139029476.017

According to Philip Bohlman, “national music reflects the image of the nation so that those living in the nation recognize themselves in basic but crucial ways. It is music conceived in the image of the nation that is created through efforts to repre... Read More about The music of non-Western nations and the evolution of British ethnomusicology.

Orientalism and the Natural Theology of Indian Music (2012)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2012). Orientalism and the Natural Theology of Indian Music. In T. Mochizuki, & S. Maeda (Eds.), . Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

'Spiritual' Selection: Joseph Goddard and the Music Theology of Evolution (2012)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2012). 'Spiritual' Selection: Joseph Goddard and the Music Theology of Evolution. In M. V. Clarke (Ed.), Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (215-236). Ashgate Publishing

Recapitulation and the musical education of Victorian children: The Child’s Pianoforte Book (1882) by H. Keatley Moore (2012)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2012). Recapitulation and the musical education of Victorian children: The Child’s Pianoforte Book (1882) by H. Keatley Moore. In B. Zon (Ed.), Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley (299-321). Ashgate Publishing

Du Grand Homme au survivant le plus apte. Renommée, recapitulation et survie: génie wagnérien et concepts victoriens. (2010)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2010). Du Grand Homme au survivant le plus apte. Renommée, recapitulation et survie: génie wagnérien et concepts victoriens. In I. Deliège, O. Vitouch, & O. Ladinig (Eds.), Musique et évolution (335-353). Mardaga

Histories of British music and the Land Without Music: National Identity and the Idea of the Hero (2010)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2010). Histories of British music and the Land Without Music: National Identity and the Idea of the Hero. In E. H. Hornby, & D. Maw (Eds.), Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell : Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography (311-324). Boydell & Brewer

Victorian Anti-Semitism and the Origin of Gregorian Chant (2010)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2010). Victorian Anti-Semitism and the Origin of Gregorian Chant. In P. Collins (Ed.), Renewal and Resistance: Catholic Church Music from the 1850s to Vatican II (99-119). Peter Lang

'"Violent passions" and "inhuman excess": Simplicity and the representation of non-Western music in nineteenth-century British travel literature' (2007)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2007). '"Violent passions" and "inhuman excess": Simplicity and the representation of non-Western music in nineteenth-century British travel literature'. In M. Clayton, & B. Zon (Eds.), Music and orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s : portrayal of the East (209-236). Ashgate Publishing

"From 'incomprehensibility' to 'meaning': Transcription and Representation of Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology and Ethnomusicology" (2006)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2006). "From 'incomprehensibility' to 'meaning': Transcription and Representation of Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology and Ethnomusicology". In R. Cowgill, & J. Rushton (Eds.), Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Ninteenth-Century British Music (185-199). Ashgate Publishing

From ‘very acute and plausible’ to ‘curiously misinterpreted’: Sir William Jones’s ‘On the Musical Modes of the Hindus’ (1792) and its reception in later musical treatises (2006)
Book Chapter
Zon, B. (2006). From ‘very acute and plausible’ to ‘curiously misinterpreted’: Sir William Jones’s ‘On the Musical Modes of the Hindus’ (1792) and its reception in later musical treatises. In M. Franklin (Ed.), Romantic orientalism (197-219). Routledge

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