A mystery, and viewless / Even when present:” Exhibiting Music at International Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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2022
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Institutionalization in Music History
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DocMus Research Publications
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Chancellery Research
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Kirby, S. (2022). A mystery, and viewless / Even when present:” Exhibiting Music at International Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Rantanen, S (Ed.). Scott, DB (Ed.). Institutionalization in Music History, (1), pp.107-126. DocMus Research Publications.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s 1827 poem Erinna contains the following passage on music’s ephemerality:
The painter’s hues stand visible before us
In power and beauty; we can trace the thoughts
Which are the workings of the poet’s mind:
But music is a mystery, and viewless
Even when present, and is less man’s set,
And less within his order; for the hand
That can call forth the tones, yet cannot tell
Whither they go, or if they live or die,
When floated once beyond his feeble ear
(Landon 1838, 185).