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Index

Abrams, M. H., 146, 164

Academy of Ancient Music, 85

accentual-syllabic metre, 167–168

Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon in Commemoration of Handel (Burney), 4

Addison, Joseph, 4, 35, 68, 120

affective rhythm, 116, 120, 123, 129

Africans, The (Colman), 101–102

Alexander’s Feast, 24

Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music (Dryden), 23–25

Alison, Somerville Scott, 232

All Along the River (Braddon), 238

Amigoni, Jacopo, 19

Analysis of Beauty Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste, The (Hogarth), 25

Anderson, Benedict, 210

Ansichten der Natur (Views of Nature) (Humboldt), 187–188

Armstrong, Isobel, 11

Arnold, Samuel, 6, 64, 85

arrhythmia in London soundscape, 123–124, 128

Art of Poetry (Bysshe), 169

Asiatic Mirror (Calcutta), 208

associationism, 1

Athenaeum, 190, 233–234

attention, 5

Attridge, Derek, 163

attunement metaphors, 2

audiovisual aesthetics, 5

aural culture, 192

aural recognition scenes

in Guy Mannering, 90–103

Hindustani language and, 102–106

introduction to, 90–94

musical recognition, 103–106

staging of, 94–99

in The Steam-Boat (Galt), 100–101

unintelligible sounds, 99–103

Austen, Jane, 3

Babbage, Charles, 116

ballads and ballad-singers, 48–49

Banks, Joseph, 137–143

Bannister, Elizabeth, 65

Barker, Samuel, 165

Barlow, Jeremy, 21

Bate, Henry, 120–121

Beattie, James, 7

Beaumont, Francis, 86

‘Beautiful Maid, The’ (Liston), 62

Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay), 19, 30–31, 68, 70

Bell, Alexander Graham, 195

Bell, John, 120–121

Belsham, William, 174–175

Benjamin, Walter, 210

Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 188

bird sounds in poetry, 178

Birth of the Clinic, The (Foucault), 226

Bishop, Henry, 6

Blackwood’s, 236

Blair, Kirstie, 229

Blancanus, Josephus, 157–158

Blaszkiewicz, Jacek, 11–12

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 232, 238

Braham, John, 98

Brewster, David, 186

British Association for the Advancement of Science, 190

British soundscape, 46

Brougham, Henry, 185

Bryce, James, 204–214

Buckley, Arabella, 195, 196

Burney, Charles, 4, 6, 21, 43, 47

Burns, Robert, 6

Butler, Samuel, 27

Byron, George Gordon (Lord Byron), 6

Bysshe, Edward, 169

Castrucci, Pietro, 20–21

Chart of the Coast of Scotland (Stevenson), 141

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 168–169

Chladni, Ernst, 188

Choleric Man The (Cumberland), 122

Christianity, 34, 191, 209

Clare, John, 176

Cobbold, William, 67

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 5, 11

Collins, Wilkie, 224–225, 236

Colman, George, the Elder, 6

Colman, George, the Younger, 101–102

coup de théâtre, 75

Crabbe, George, 123

Cranford (Gaskell), 228–230

Cruikshank, George, 62

Cruikshank, Isaac, 126

Davey, William, 233–234

Davies, James Q., 184–185, 210–211

Davis, Leith, 50, 52

Davy, Humphry, 1–2

De Quincey, Thomas, 10–11

Derham, William, 158, 161

Dering, Richard, 67

Der Vampyr (Marschner), 144

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (Thomas), 241

Deval, Krishnaji Ballal, 216

Dictionnaire de musique (Rousseau), 39–40, 52

Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen (Helmholtz), 186

digital humanities, 11–12

Dilke, Charles, 108

Distrest Poet, The (Hogarth), 5–6, 17–18, 36, 37

doctrine of vibrations, 2

Douglas, Mary, 11

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 236

Dryden, John, 23–25, 165–175

dustman’s bell, 115–116

Ear Phonautograph (Bell), 195

East, Michael, 67

echoes and echoing sounds

experience of sound in poetry, 176–178

Gilbert White and, 155, 156–163

historical acoustemology of, 155

introduction to, 154–156

John Dryden and, 165–175

measurement of, 156–163

poetics of, 155, 163–176

prosody in, 160–162

Edgeworth, Maria, 183, 194

Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 211

Edinburgh Review, 190

Edwin, John, 65

electromagnetism, 192

Enlightenment era, 2, 4, 177

Enraged Musician, The (Hogarth)

amplified noise in, 23

cultural identity of sound in, 48–49

deafening silence of, 28

distressed poet in, 28–31

Fielding on, 28, 31–35

introduction to, 5–6, 17–18

John Dryden and, 23–25

Lamb on, 17, 32–35

location of, 21–23

May Day milkmaid in, 25–26

Michael Angelo Rooker and, 60–62, 67

mood and mind in, 31–35

as musician provoked, 18–20

poverty in, 35–36

as read by, 20–21

‘Eolian Harp, The’ (Coleridge), 11

Epicœne (Jonson), 65, 86

Erlmann, Veit, 146

Erwin, Timothy, 65

Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne (Laborde), 39–40

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke), 3–4, 41

Essay on Criticism (Pope), 7, 154–155

Essay towards a Rational System of Music (Holden), 202–203

euharmonic organ (Henry Liston)

introduction to, 9, 201–205

James Bryce and, 204–214

missionary education and, 209–214

nature versus culture, 201–205

reactions to, 205–208

shift and displacement of, 214–218

space and time modernity, 210

śrutis scale and, 215–216

Timothy Mitchell and, 210, 212–214, 215

Euler, Leonhard, 211

European Magazine, 65, 67

eurythmic soundscape, 123

Fairy-Land of Science, The (Buckley), 196

‘False Start, A’ (Doyle), 236

Farey, John, Senior, 8–9, 201, 211–212

Festin, John, 20–21, 22

Fielding, Henry, 28, 31–35, 48, 64–65

Fingal’s Cave

Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond and, 139–141

Felix Mendelssohn and, 136, 144–146

introduction to, 7, 136–137

John MacCulloch and, 148–149

Louis-Albert Necker and, 142

romantic resonance, 136, 144–149

search for, 137–143

Walter Scott and, 142–143, 144, 146–147

Forbes, John, 235

Franco of Cologne, 212

Furst, Lilian, 230

Fussell, Paul, 168–169, 170, 171–172

Galt, John, 7, 100–101

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 228–230

Gay, John, 19, 68

Gelbart, Matthew, 44–45, 49–50

generational rhythms, 128–130

Genesis, book of, 24

Gentleman’s Magazine, 36

George, Georgina, 65

Gibbons, Orlando, 67

Gilchrist’s Guide, 103–106

Gilpin, William, 74

globalization, 106

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 77–80

Grassini, Josephina, 10–11

Guy Mannering (Scott), 90–103

habit of mind, 33

Hammond, Paul, 170

Handel, George Frideric, 21

Hardy, Robert, 157

harmonic improvement, 201

harmony and the euharmonic organ, 211

Hartley, David, 1–2

Hebrides, The, or Fingal’s Cave (Mendelssohn), 7

Helmholtz, Hermann von, 186, 195

Hemans, Felicia, 6

Herber, Reginald, 7, 103–106

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 129

Hérisson, Julius, 240

heroic verse, 169

Herschel, John, 186, 189–190

Hindustani language, 102–106

historical acoustemology, 155

Historical Magazine, 65, 75–77

Hogarth, William, 5, 17–38, 48, 60–89, 126

Holden, John, 202–203

Holland, Peter, 228

Hollander, John, 154

Hudibras (Butler), 27

Humboldt, Alexander von, 187–188

Hume, David, 41–43

Iliff, Maria, 65

Illustrated Practical Mesmerist, Curative and Scientific, The (Davey), 233–234

Imitations of Horace (Pope), 27, 28–29

‘Imperfect Sympathies’ (Lamb), 34

Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (Reid), 4

involuntary actions, 1

Jackson, Virginia, 164

Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 218

Johnson, James, 6

Johnson, Samuel, 7, 49, 162, 165

Jonson, Ben, 65, 86, 122–123, 138

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, The (Boswell), 49

Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, A (Johnson), 49

Kay, J. P., 235

Keats, John, 11

Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 189

Khare, Ganesh Sakharam, 216

Kipling, Rudyard, 239–240

Kirnberger, Johann Philipp, 211

Kiston, Henry, 208

Knight, Charles, 128

Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Beaumont), 86

Knox, Vicesimus, 40

Kollmann, A. F. C., 203, 204, 212–214

Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de, 39–40

Ladies Monthly Museum, The, 98

Laennec, René, 9, 224

Lamb, Charles, 17, 32–35

Lancet, 231

Langan, Celeste, 6

Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 185

Laroon, Marcellus, 19

Leapor, Mary, 120

Leask, Nigel, 138–139

Lectures on Jurisprudence (Smith), 43

Le Fanu, Sheridan, 238–239

Lefebvre, Henri, 116

Lennard, William, 227

Letters on Natural Magic Addressed to Sir Walter Scott (Brewster), 186

Letters on a Tour through Various Parts of Scotland (Lettice), 48

Lettice, John, 48

Le vampire (Nodier), 144

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 17, 32, 48

listening,

decline of, 3–4

Liston, Henry. See also euharmonic organ (Henry Liston)

Liston, John, 62, 101–102

Locke, John, 3–4, 41

Lockhart, Ellen, 184–185, 204

Lockwood, Tom, 65

Lombroso, Cesare, 241

London Evening Post, 120

London Medical Gazette, 238

Lord of the Isles, The (Scott), 147

Loutherbourg, Philip James de, 64

Lucius Davoren (Braddon), 232

Mabey, Richard, 164–165

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 209

MacCulloch, John, 148–149

Mackay, Charles, 69

Marey, Étienne-Jules, 240

‘Marklake Witches’ (Kipling), 239–240

Marschner, Heinrich, 144

Martin, Meredith, 155

Marxism, 3

Mayes, Catherine, 40

Mayhew, Henry, 128

McDowell, Paula, 48

McIlvenna, Una, 50–51

Mécanique celeste (Laplace), 185

Mechanism of the Heavens (Somerville), 185

mediate auscultation, 226

medicine, 41, 224, 225, 226, 231, 236

Meisel, Martin, 65, 66

Mendelssohn, Felix, 7, 136, 144–146

mesmerism, 233–234

Metamorphoses (Ovid), 154

Metropolitan Magazine, 73–74

Metropolitan Police Act, 115

Miles, Robert, 2–3

mind-altering substances, 1

Mirror and the Lamp, The (Abrams), 164

Mirror of Literature, 123

Mitchell, Timothy, 205, 210, 212–214, 215

mixed automatic actions, 1

Moore, Thomas, 6

Morning Post, 121

moving and sounds, 106–108

muffin-boy’s bell, 115

musical exoticism, 39

musical instruments. See also euharmonic organ (Henry Liston)

learning to play, 1

Romantic philosophy of nature, 8–9

sound from, 9, 186, 188, 193

musical recognition, 103–106

musical universalism, 44–45

musica mensurata, 212

music and noise distinction, 71–74

music theory, 8, 216, 218

Mylius, Christlob, 32

Napoleonic Wars, 106, 117

Nathan, Isaac, 6

national characters, 40, 43

national identity, 5

national songs, 39–40, 47, 53

Natural History of Oxford-Shire (Plot), 157–158

Natural History of Selborne, The (White), 155, 156–157

nature versus art debate, 68–71

Necker, Louis-Albert, 142

Newman, Steve, 49

New Morning Post, 121

news-horn sound

affective rhythm of, 120, 123–127

complaints against, 123–127

as generational rhythm, 128–130

introduction to, 115–117

loss of, 127–128

in metropolis, 120–123

pastness of present, 117–120

‘Newspaper, The’ (Crabbe), 123

Newtonian theory of gravity, 192–193

Nichols, John, 17, 36

nitrous oxide (laughing gas), 1, 2

Nodier, Charles, 144

Nora, Pierre, 6

Observations on Man (Hartley), 1

ocularcentrism, 2, 4

Of National Characters (Hume), 43

Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing (Hume), 45

Of the Standard of Taste (Hume), 41–42

On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (Somerville), 184, 190–191, 195–196

On the Sensation of Tone (Helmholtz), 195

opera, 10, 47, 48, 70, 86, 142, 144, 184

opium, 10–11

Original Anecdotes of Hogarth and Illustrations of His Plates (Nichols), 36

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 34–35, 154, 159

Paradise Lost (Milton), 26

Parry, John, 6

Pastorals (Virgil), 157, 159

Pater, Walter, 5

Pennant, Thomas, 137, 156

Penny Magazine, 147–148, 191

Pepusch, Johann Christoph, 21

Peterfreund, Stuart, 164

Philosophical Magazine, 211–212, 214

Philosophical Transactions, 158

Philosophy of Music, The (Pole), 196

Physical Examination of the Chest, The (Alison), 232

Picker, John, 5, 192

Plot, Robert, 157–158, 160–161

Poe, Edgar Allen, 241

poetry and poetics

accentual syllabic metre, 167–168

bird sounds in, 178

experience of sound in, 176–178

heroic verse, 169

lyric expressions of, 163–176

in measuring echoes, 156–163

of Romanticism, 155

ten-syllable line in, 172, 174

trisyllabic substitutions, 168–169

Pole, William, 196

Pope, Alexander, 7, 27, 28–29, 69, 154–155

postal networks. See news-horn sound

post-boys. See news-horn sound

Practical Education (Edgeworth), 183

Present State of Music in Germany, The (Burney), 47

Prince, Mary, 107

prosody,

in echoes, 160–162

Proverbs, book of, 23

Punch, 230–231

Ramsay, Allan, 49–50

Rape of Lucrece (Shakespeare), 32

Ravenscroft, Thomas, 67

Reid, Thomas, 4

Reiser, Stanley Joel, 226, 234–235

representation in images, 210

resonance metaphors, 2

Ritson, Joseph, 52

Robison, John, 8–9

Rogue’s Life, A (Collins), 236

Romanticism, 155, 191–195

Romantic resonance, 136, 144–149

Rooker, Edward, 60

Rooker, Michael Angelo, 60–62, 67, 74–77

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 39–40, 44–45, 52

Roy, Rammohan, 209

Royal Philharmonic Society, 204

Royal Society of Musicians, 85

Saint-Fond, Barthélemy Faujas de, 139–141

Sala, George Augustus, 21

Salter, Henry Hyde, 227–228

Sandbury, Paul, 60

satire in The Enraged Musician, 35

Saturday Magazine The, 191

Savart, Félix, 188

Say, Samuel, 170

Sceptic The (Hume), 42

Schmidt, Leigh Eric, 3–4

science of sound, 184–190

Scotland, 39–59, 100, 139, 144, 145, 207

Church of, 201, 205, 209

Scott, Walter, 7, 46, 90–103, 142–143, 144, 146–147

Scottish Enlightenment, 204

Scottish national music

history, judgement, and taste, 41–46

performance, collection, and history, 46–53

sound and, 39–41

Sebastiani, Silvia, 43

secondarily automatic movements, 1

Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, A (Thomson), 52

self-portrait by Hogarth, 36–37

Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 3

Shakespeare, William, 25, 32

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 125–126

Sheridan, Thomas, 45, 171

Shield, William, 52–53

sight, 4

S-line in The Enraged Musician, 25–26, 30

Smith, Adam, 5, 43

Smith, Mark M., 154

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 191

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 185

Somerville, Mary (née Fairfax)

introduction to, 8, 183–184

Maria Edgeworth and, 183, 194

Newtonian theory of gravity, 192–193

popularity of work, 190–191

science of sound, 184–190

sonorous Romanticism, 191–195

Something Concerning Nobody (1814), 122

Song for St Cecilia’s Day, A (Dryden), 24

sonic experience of place, 6–7

sonic modernity, 191–195

sonorous Romanticism, 191–195

Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The (Goethe), 77–80

Sound and Music (Taylor), 196

sounding shields, 142

sounds and soundscapes. See also echoes and echoing sounds; news-horn sound; stethoscope

arrhythmia in London soundscape, 123–124, 128

aural recognition scenes, 99–103, 106–108

bird sounds in poetry, 178

conveying violence through, 108

cultural identity of, 48–49

dustman’s bell, 115–116

eurythmic soundscape, 123

experience of sound in poetry, 176–178

moving, 106–108

muffin-boy’s bell, 115

from musical instruments, 9, 186, 188, 193

of Napoleonic Wars, 106, 117

science of, 184–190

in Scottish national music, 39–41

sonic experience of place, 6–7

sonic modernity, 191–195

unintelligible sounds, 99–103

urban soundscape, 7

violence through, 108

sound studies, 11–12, 64, 136, 155, 177

Spectator, The (Addison), 4

śrutis scale, 215–216

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church of Calcutta, 9

St John’s Gospel, 103

Steam-Boat, The (Galt), 100–101

Steege, Benjamin, 186

Steevens, George, 17, 30, 36

Steinberg, Michael P., 146

Sterne, Jonathan, 4, 226

stethoscope

decency and privacy concerns, 227–235

Elizabeth Gaskell and, 228–230

human frailty and, 235–241

introduction to, 9, 224–227

mediate auscultation, 226

mesmerism and, 233–234

Wilkie Collins and, 224–225

Stevenson, John Andrew, 6

Stewart, Dugald, 43, 50

street musicians, 115

Swidzinski, Joshua, 159

Tagore, Sourindro Mohun, 216

Taylor, Sedley, 196

‘Tell-Tale Heart, The’ (Poe), 241

ten-syllable line in poetry, 172, 174

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 231–232

Theobald, Lewis, 30

Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (Fussell), 168–169

‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ (Coleridge), 11

Thomas, Ronald R., 241

Thomson, George, 6, 52

Three Clerks, The (Trollope), 232

timbre, 6, 9, 12

Tour, Charles de la, 188

‘Treatise on Sound’ (Herschel), 186, 189–190

Tresch, John, 8

trisyllabic substitutions, 168–169

Trollope, Anthony, 232

Trusler, John, 17, 120–121

Tyndell, John, 196

Uncle Silas (Le Fanu), 238–239

unintelligible sounds, 99–103

Unitarian science, 11

universalism, 39, 45

Universal Magazine, 65

Universal Songsters; or Museum of Mirth, The, 98

urban soundscape, 7. See also news-horn sound

useful knowledge, 192

Ut Pictura Poesis, or, The Enraged Musician (Colman)

distinction between music and noise, 71–74

evocation of Hogarth’s image, 74–77

interpretations, 85–86

introduction to, 60–65

nature versus art debate, 68–71

noises of the street, 77–85

overview of, 65–68

Vanderbank, Moses, 37

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (Blair), 229

Vierordt, Karl, 240

violence through sound, 108

Virgil, 157, 159

Virginians, The (Thackeray), 231–232

visual tropes, 4

Vixen (Braddon), 232

voice, cultural origins expressed in, 107

Voyage en Angleterre, en Écosse et aux Îles Hébrides (Saint-Fond), 139–141

Voyage en Écosse et aux Iles Hébrides (Necker), 142

Voyage to the Hebrides (Pennant), 137

Walpole, Horace, 121

wardmotes, 124, 125

Watt, James, 8–9

Weelkes, Thomas, 67

Weiskott, Eric, 168

Wheatstone, Charles, 8–9, 188–189

Whewell, William, 190

White, Gilbert, 7–8, 155, 156–178

Whittaker, John, 98

Willing to Die (Le Fanu), 238

Willis, Robert, 189

Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare), 25

Woman in White, The (Collins), 224–225

Woodfield, Ian, 47–48

Woolf, Virginia, 157

Wordsworth, William, 128

Young, Thomas, 8–9, 188

Zitin, Abigail, 26

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