Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s: Portrayal of the East.

366 Pages·2007·3.603 MB·English

by  Clayton, Martin, Zon, Bennett

MUSIC AND ORIENTALISM IN THE
BRITISH EMPIRE, 1780s–1940s

Music and Orientalism in the
British Empire, 1780s–1940s
Portrayal of the East
Edited by
MARTIN CLAYTON and BENNETT ZON
First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s:
portrayal of the East. – (Music in nineteenth-century
Britain)
1.Music – Great Britain – 19th century – History and
criticism 2. Orientalism in music 3. Music – Great Britain
–20th century – History and criticism
I. Clayton, Martin II. Zon, Bennett
780.9’41’09034
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Music and orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s: portrayal of the East / edited by
Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon.
p. cm – (Music in nineteenth-century Britain)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5604-3 (alk. paper) 1. Orientalism in music–Great Britain–History.
2. Music–Great Britain–History and criticism. I. Clayton, Martin.
Zon, Bennett.
ML286 .M86 2007
780.9171’241–dc22
2006032542
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-5604-3 (hbk)
The editors would like to acknowledge the valuable support of the Institute of Advanced
Study, Durham University, and the Open University in the funding of this book.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Music Examples xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
General Editor’s Series Preface xvii
Introduction 1
Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon
I PORTRAYAL OF THE EAST
1 Encountering the Other, Redefining the Self: Hindostannie Airs, 13
Haydn’s Folksong Settings and the ‘Common Practice’ Style
Nicholas Cook
2 Mamia, Ammani and other Bayadères: Europe’s Portrayal 39
of India’s Temple Dancers
Joep Bor
3 Musical Renaissance and its Margins in England and India, 71
1874–1914
Martin Clayton
4 Mizrakh, Jewish Music and the Journey to the East 95
Philip V. Bohlman and Ruth F. Davis
II INTERPRETING CONCERT MUSIC
5 Granville Bantock and the Orient in the Midlands 129
Fiona Richards
6 ‘An Inoffensive Thing’: Edward Elgar, The Crown of India 147
and Empire
Corissa Gould
7 Patriotic Vigour or Voice of the Orient? Re-reading Elgar’s 165
Caractacus
Laura Upperton
vi CONTENTS
8 Negotiating Orientalism: The Kaccheri and the Critic in 189
Colonial South India
Lakshmi Subramanian
III WORDS AND MUSIC
9 ‘Violent Passions’ and ‘Inhuman Excess’: Simplicity and the 209
Representation of Non-western Music in Nineteenth-century
British Travel Literature
Bennett Zon
10 Creative Women and ‘Exoticism’ at the Last Fin-de-siècle 237
Sophie Fuller
11 Tom-toms, Dream-fugues and Poppy Juice: East Meets West in 257
Nineteenth-century Fiction
Phyllis Weliver
IV THE ORIENTALIST STAGE
12 Chu Chin Chow and Orientalist Musical Theatre in Britain during 277
the First World War
William A. Everett
13 A Parallel Reading of the ‘Oriental’ and South American Opera 297
Libretti set by Sir Henry Bishop
Claire Mabilat
14 Musicking the Other: Orientalism in the Hindi Cinema 315
Gregory D. Booth
Index 339
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 The Royal Stables, Brighton 31
Photograph by kind permission of Duncan McNeill
2.1 Boucicaut, ‘Danse des servantes ou esclaves des dieux’, 42
Le Livre des merveilles (c.1413): fol. 80
(Bibliothèque nationale de France)
2.2 Pierre Sonnerat, ‘Danse des Bayadères’, Voyage aux Indes 47
orientales et à la Chine (1782): vol. 1, opp. p. 41
2.3 Jacob Haafner, ‘Devedaschie, of Indiasche Danseresse’, 51
Reize in eenen Palanquin (1808), vol. 1, opp. p. 224
2.4 Mathieu Barathier, ‘Le Dieu et la bayadère’ (1849) 56
(Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Narbonne)
2.5 Auguste Barre, ‘Amany’ (1838) (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice) 60
2.6 Theatre Royal Adelphi, ‘First Appearance of the Bayadères’ 62
(1 October 1838) (Copyright @ The British Library, Playbills.353)
2.7 N. Whittich, ‘The Bayadères; or Dancing Girls of India’, 64
Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction,
(13 October 1838): vol. 32, 1 (City of Westminster
Archives Centre, London)

4.1 ‘Lecha Dodi’ – ‘Come my Beloved’. Text by Rabbi Shlomo 95
HaLevy Alkabetz (1505–1584), Safed, Upper Galilee
Source: Rabbi Nusson Scherman and Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz,
eds, Siddur Ahavas Shalom/The Complete Arkscroll Siddur
Nusach Ashkenaz (New York: Mesorah Publications Ltd, 1984): 316
4.2 ‘Jerusalem’. Text by William Blake (c.1804); music by 98
C.H.H. Parry (1916). Source: Sydney Nicholson, G.H. Knight,
J. Dykes Bower, eds, Hymns Ancient and Modern Revised
(London: William Clowes and Sons, Ltd, 1950): 778
4.3 Imagining Eden. Source: Alexander Eliasberg, 102
Ostjüdische Volkslieder (Munich: Georg Müller, 1918):
cover illustration
4.4 The Journey to the East. Source: Joseph Jacobsen and 103
Erwin Jospe, Hawa naschira! (Auf! Laßt uns singen!):
Liederbuch für Untericht, Bund und Haus
(Leipzig and Hamburg: Anton J. Benjamin, 1935): 1
viii LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
4.5 E.M. Lilien’s Representation of the Creation of 106
Instrumental Music. Source: Morris Rosenfeld, Lieder des
Ghetto, trans. Berthold Feiwel, illus. E.M. Lilien (Berlin and
Vienna: Benjamin Harz, 1902): 113
4.6 Returning to Eden. Source: Altneuland: Monatsschrift für die 107
wirtschaftliche Erschliessung Palästinas, vol. 1, no. 1 (1904):
title page
4.7 ‘Alei giv’a’ (Postcard of the Keren kajemeth). 109
Source: Hans Nathan, ed., Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the
Early Pioneers (Madison WI: A-R Editions, 1994): xxiv
4.8 ‘Alei giv’a’ in Songs of Eretz Yisrael 110
Source: Jakob Schönberg, Schirej Eretz Israel (Berlin: Jüdischer
Verlag, 1938; Reprint: Jerusalem, Hozaah Ivrith, 1947): 81
4.9 ‘Alei giv’a’ (set for voice and piano by Paul Dessau in 1938). 111
Source: Hans Nathan, ed., Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the Early
Pioneers (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1994): 16–17
Used with permission of A-R Editions
4.10 Arab song and recitation accompanied by the rababa. 113
Source: Collection of the Open Museum of Photography,
Tel Hai, Israel. Photograph by Felix Bonfils (1831–85)
4.11 Oriental Music I (Palestine Broadcasting Service, 114
18 November 1936): Robert Lachmann.
Source: Ruth Katz, ‘The Lachmann Problem’: An Unsung
Chapter in Comparative Musicology (Jerusalem: The Hebrew
University Magnes Press, 2003): 333–4
4.12 Robert Lachmann transcribing from a recording, Jerusalem, n.d. 115
Source: Lachmann Archive (MUS 26), Music Department,
Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem (detail)
4.13 ‘Kol Yerushalayim: Music Programmes for Jewish Radio 117
Listeners in Palestine’: Karl Salomon. Source: Karl Solomon,
‘Kol Yerushalayim: Music Programmes for Jewish Radio
Listeners in Palestine’, Musica Hebraica 1 and 2 (1938): 36–9
4.14 Oriental Music I (Palestine Broadcasting Service, 118
18 November 1936): Robert Lachmann.
Source: Ruth Katz, ‘The Lachmann Problem’: An Unsung Chapter
in Comparative Musicology (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University
Magnes Press, 2003): 333
4.15 Samaritan priest and child on Mount Gerizim. 120
Source: Lachmann Archive (MUS 26), Music Department,
Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES ix
4.16 Orientalische Musik und Antike (Oriental Music and Antiquity): 121
Robert Lachmann (undated lecture probably given in Berlin, 1936).
Source: Edith Gerson-Kiwi, ed., Robert Lachmann: Posthumous
Works, vol. 1: Zwei Aufsätze: Die Musik im Volksleben Nordafrikas
Orientalische Musik und Antike (Jerusalem: Magnes Press of the
Hebrew University, 1974): 55–6
4.17 Edith Gerson-Kiwi: ‘Jerusalem Archive for Oriental Music’. 123
Source: (Musica Hebraica 1 and 2 (1938): 40–42), cited in Philip V.
Bohlman, The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936–1940:
Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1992): 197–8
7.1 Caractacus, Scene II, text taken from bars 13–24 179
9.1 ‘Dancing-Girls (Ghawázee, or Gházeeyehs)’. 223
Source: Edward William Lane, The Manners and Customs of Modern
Egyptians, 2 vols, 5th ed. (London: John Murray, 1836/1904):
vol. 2, 88
Tables
7.1 How Elgar contrasts the Arch-Druid with Caractacus and Orbin 172