John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Pater’s celebration of music in The Renaissance as the ideal towards which all arts aspire, fostered the idea of interior design as a musical composition enhancing pure perception for the aesthetic mind. …”
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Gothic Sounds and the Foreshadowing of Victorian Soundscapes by Lucie Ratail

“…Pre-Victorian Britain, as a transitory period from the Enlightenment to the Age of Industrialisation, witnessed shifts in understandings of ‘noise’, ‘sound’ and ‘music’ and growing interest in acoustics and other sound studies. …”
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