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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.