... , edited by P. Groenewegen. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. White , M. V. 1996 . Notes on Jevons's “On the Science of Art and Music” Unpublished manuscript. Jevons’s Music Manuscript and the Political Economy of Music Bert Mosselmans and Ernest Mathijs Here we investigate an unpublished...

... Smith’s analysis of the nature of the pleasure we take in the arts. A study of music’s pleasures in particular reinforces the point that governments are not well fitted to supply peo- ple’s wants in the arts. In section 3 we develop two eighteenth-century case studies, identifying both private...

... of Social Reform (1883). In this essay, however, Jevons does not fully address by what mechanism popular entertainment regulates the workman’s leisure habits. An incomplete and apparently unfinished manuscript on musical theory, catalogued in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, under...

... is overpriced may be expected, perhaps, considering his Discours sur les sciences et les arts, but it is still remarkable in view of his high appreciation of art in his personal life, as well as in many of his political proposals. He was an author of novels, drama, and music, and he participated with very...

... University Press. Opera Trust. 1946 . Minutes of meetings 30 July and 16 August, 1946 . Opera Trust Minutes, 1946–51, Archives of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Peacock, Alan. 1993 . Paying the Piper:Culture, Music, and Money . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pevsner, Nikolaus...

... and that mathematics is a natural science, the Pythagoreans abstracted all the numerical relationships they could by experimental methods. Relying on their experiments with musical harmony, they assumed that all nature is made up of numerical elements with forms which, when abstracted, could...

... the mental wastage caused by drinking and “riotous and vicious assemblages.” Jevons’s solution here was music—not the music of high art, but the music that conduces to absence of thought: literally, tranquilizing music. Maas sets Jevons’s view alongside the view of routine labor held by John Ruskin...

... Biography. Dickens , Charles . 1851 . The Great Exhibition and the Little One. Household Words 3 . 5 (July): 356 -60. French , A. 1985 . John Joseph Merlin: The Ingenious Mechanick . London: Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, GLC. Gainsborough and His Musical Friends . 1977 . London...

... of the commercialized cultural commodity market, which included papers like the Spectator, music halls, the stage, and the “art market.” Cultivated consumers must be trained in way of the pleasures of the imagination, as must those who produce for them. For a further discussion of how changes in eighteenth-century...

... . Paying the Piper: Culture, Music, and Money . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Robbins, Lionel. 1932 . An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science . London:Macmillan. ———. 1947 . The Economic Problem in Peace and War: Some Reflections on Objectives and Mechanisms . London...

... extraordinary mathematical interest and aptitude. He turned to mathematics and its history as to poetry and music, to tide him over crises in his life. For example, his wife contracted smallpox in 1859- 60; in constant dread that she might die, or that disease might spread to his chil- dren and himself...

... as illustrating the dialectic. (Karl Popper and Milton Friedman please note!) There can be no doubt about Marx’s extraordinary mathematical interest and aptitude. He turned to mathematics and its history as to poetry and music, to tide him over crises in his life. For example, his wife contracted...

...) senseless vulgarity” (4). When “our English masses try to amuse them- selves, they do it in such a clumsy and vulgar way as to disgust one with the very name of amusement” (4). Consumption of the products of popu- lar culture especially offended Jevons. Music halls were beneath con- tempt. “It passes...

... and gloomy” humor (Smith [1776] 1976, 796). Smith and the other Scottish Enlightenment writers thought of the arts as attempts to imitate perfec- tion, and in one of the arts at least, “the sentiments and passions which Music can best imitate are those which unite and bind men together in society...

... that can be taught cheaply and practised by poor people; such as medicine, mathematics, music, paint- ing, and literature. It should teach the arts of human intercourse; the arts of understanding other people’s lives and minds, and the little arts of talk, of dress, of cookery that are allied...

... schedule that emphasized programs with the dual advantage of being inexpensive and attractive to a large number of viewers, especially hit series and music programs that were broadcast multiple times. As a result, M6 suffered from a rather poor reputation in the educated social classes and in the more...

... History of Political Economy 10.2 (1978) On Economics and Society. By Harry G. Johnson.* Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. 356. $12.95. The composer Camille Saint-Saens is reported to have said that musical compositions flowed from his pen like ripe...

... as a human avatar within a single-player side-scroller game with graphics reminiscent of early arcade games and background audio resembling the music typical of such games. In side-scroller games, the player usually must gobble up prizes to accumulate points while evading various enemies, with a dashboard...

... of bringing his subject to life as a person living and thinking within his own century. Petty was, at various stages of his career, a surveyor, a demographer, a professor of music at Oxford, and later professor of anatomy and chancellor, an inventor of sailboat hulls, a mimic, a member of both...

..., integrating diverse viewpoints, and distilling bountiful information and opinion into an acceptable and practical product.” Furthermore, Problems and Prospects “accorded Hanks a broad overview of the major issues and personalities in the worlds of theatre, dance, opera, and symphonic music” (215...