Open AccessWhat is English music? The Twentieth Century Experience
Author(s) -
Niall O’Loughlin
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
muzikološki zbornik/muzikološki zbornik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2350-4242
pISSN - 0580-373X
DOI - 10.4312/mz.43.1.147-166
Subject(s) - music history , popular music , folk music , character (mathematics) , music , literature , art , national identity , musicology , traditional music , philosophy of music , aesthetics , visual arts , music education , musical , political science , law , politics , geometry , mathematics
Many countries in the 19th century wanted to assert their national character, with music being one way of doing so. We can distinguish four ways in which in music national identity can be established: composers may use the folk music, they can base their music on folk music, they can set the words of a nation to music and the last possibility can be found in the idea of an association of certain music with specific events and festivities in a tradition. The author discusses in detail these four possibilities of the establishment of Englishness in music in 20th century.