Download or read book Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-century British Musicology written by Bennett Zon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical writing about music and music history in nineteenth-century Britain was permeated with metaphor and analogy. Music and Metaphor examines how over-arching theories of music history were affected by reference to various figurative linguistic templates adopted from other disciplines such as art, religion, politics and science.