Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000; 37;
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 24 March 2026
- ISBN 9781837652907
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 434 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 music exx. 698
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Short description:
Using John Ireland's fascination with Arthur Machen as case study, this book challenges our perception of the correspondence between music and literature in twentieth-century Britain.
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Using John Ireland's fascination with Arthur Machen as case study, this book challenges our perception of the correspondence between music and literature in twentieth-century Britain. The composer John Ireland (1879-1962) declared repeatedly that no one could understand his music until they had first read the work of his favourite writer, Arthur Machen (1863-1947). This book is the first study to take Ireland at his word. Revolving around Machen's classification as a founding figure of 'weird fiction', it uses weird aesthetics as an interpretative lens with which to understand Ireland's notoriously cryptic life and music. Its four chapters deal respectively with Machen's and Ireland's parallel experience of fin-de-si------cle London; with their engagement with the English pastoral tradition; with their explorations of weird art's relationship with eroticism; and with unsettling implications of alternative historiography. The resulting portrait reveals Ireland to be one of Britain's pre-eminent 'weird artists', placing Ireland in the aesthetic context with which he wished to be associated. It therefore fills a significant gap in British musicology, while at the same time contributing to a growing appreciation of Machen as a major figure in British culture, one whose influence exceeds far beyond the literary sphere to which he is traditionally confined. Using Ireland's fascination with Machen as its case study, this book makes a timely and necessary connection between the literary weird and its musical doppelg------nger, enriching and challenging our perception of the correspondence between music and literature in twentieth-century Britain.
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List of Musical Examples Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: TRANSMUTATIONS OF PLACE 1. The Urban Weird: London Pieces and Ballade of London Nights 2. The Pastoral Weird: Legend PART 2: TRANSMUTATIONS OF SELF 3. The Erotic Weird: Decorations 4. Becoming Weird: A Circular Discourse Afterword: Solving the Cryptogram Bibliography Index
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