Ladies’ orchestras and music-as-performance in fin-de-siècle Britain

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Shannon Draucker
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ABSTRACT This article traces the emergence of a curious musical phenomenon in fin-de-siècle Britain: the ladies’ orchestra. As British music conservatories began to open to women in the 1870s and 1880s, and the violin gradually became a more “acceptable” instrument for women to play, ladies’ orchestras offered female musicians – still excluded from the country’s major symphony orchestras – opportunities to perform in public and sometimes even earn a living. Analyzing responses to ladies’ orchestras in the British periodical press, this article shows that ladies’ orchestras invited Victorian audiences to think about classical music in new ways. Ladies’ orchestras, though niche, fundamentally shifted the sensual experience of the orchestra concert, transforming it from a staid, solemn event centered on “the music itself” to a multisensorial spectacle, complete with colorful costumes, dazzling stage settings, and dynamic displays of musical vigor and passion. Ladies’ orchestras embraced what musicologists now call a “performance-based” approach, one that tunes into the spatial, temporal, sensory, kinesthetic, and affective dimensions of classical music.
女子管弦乐队和音乐在英国的演出
摘要:本文追溯了一个奇怪的音乐现象——英国女子管弦乐队的出现。随着英国音乐学院在19世纪70年代和80年代开始向女性开放,小提琴逐渐成为一种更被女性“接受”的乐器,女子乐团为女性音乐家提供了在公共场合表演的机会,有时甚至可以谋生,而这些女性音乐家仍然被排除在国家主要交响乐团之外。本文分析了英国期刊媒体对女子乐团的反应,表明女子乐团让维多利亚时代的观众以新的方式思考古典音乐。女子乐团,虽然小众,但从根本上改变了乐团音乐会的感官体验,将其从一个以“音乐本身”为中心的古板,庄严的事件转变为一个多感官的奇观,完成了五颜六色的服装,令人眼花缭乱的舞台设置,以及音乐活力和激情的动态展示。女子乐团采用了音乐学家现在所说的“以表演为基础”的方法,这种方法与古典音乐的空间、时间、感官、动觉和情感维度相协调。
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期刊介绍: Nineteenth-Century Contexts is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others.
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