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Music and World-Building in the Colonial City
Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860–1880
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, focusing on coalmining regions of New South Wales. It explores how music-making helped British migrants to create communities in unfamiliar country, …
French Music in Britain 1830–1914
Av Paul Rodmell
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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French Music in Britain 1830–1914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival of ‘grand opera’ and opéra comique in London) and the outbreak of the First World War. Five chronologically ordered chapters investigate key …
Figures of the Imagination
Fiction and Song in Britain, 1790–1850
Häftad, 2019
811 kr
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This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people’s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was …
Arthur Sullivan
A Musical Reappraisal
Häftad, 2019
786 kr
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Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan’s reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the …
Singing the English
Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870–1904
Inbunden, 2022
2585 kr
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Late nineteenth-century France was a nation undergoing an identity crisis: the uncertain infancy of the Third Republic and shifting alliances in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War forced France to interrogate the fundamental values and characteristics at the heart of its own national identity. …
Music and World-Building in the Colonial City
Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860–1880
Häftad, 2022
921 kr
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Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, focusing on coalmining regions of New South Wales. It explores how music-making helped British migrants to create communities in unfamiliar country, …
Sound, Sin, and Conversion in Victorian England
Häftad, 2020
705 kr
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The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized the Victorian conscience and acted as a spur to social reform. In some notable examples, Julia Grella O’Connell argues, the iconography of the Victorian …
Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920
New Perspectives on Status and Identity
Häftad, 2020
726 kr
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Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Trades and occupations sought protection and improved status via alignment with the professions: an …
Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast
Av Roy Johnston, Declan Plummer
Häftad, 2020
726 kr
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Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Before his death Roy Johnston, had written a full draft, based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention especially to contemporary newspapers. With the deft …
French Music in Britain 1830–1914
Av Paul Rodmell
Häftad, 2022
726 kr
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French Music in Britain 1830–1914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival of ‘grand opera’ and opéra comique in London) and the outbreak of the First World War. Five chronologically ordered chapters investigate key …
Richard D’Oyly Carte
Av Paul Seeley
Häftad, 2020
749 kr
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The first biography of Richard D’Oyly Carte, this is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan. Errors and misconceptions in current literature are challenged and corrected to give a truer portrayal of one of the …
Michael Costa: England's First Conductor
The Revolution in Musical Performance in England, 1830-1880
Av John Goulden
Häftad, 2019
831 kr
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Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century, one that has received little attention is how musical performances were managed and directed. Yet this was arguably the most radical change of all: from a loose control shared between the violin-leader, …
Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology
Av Bennett Zon
Inbunden, 2000
2588 kr
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’In a word, I shall endeavour to show how our music, having been originally a shell-fish, with its restrictive skeleton on the outside and no soul within, has been developed by the inevitable laws of evolution, through natural selection and the survival of the fittest, into something human, even …
House of Novello
Practice and Policy of a Victorian Music Publisher, 1829–1866
Inbunden, 2003
3262 kr
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By the mid-nineteenth century music publishing was no longer the provenance of shopkeepers, instrument makers or individual scholars, but a business enterprise undertaken by a new breed of Victorian entrepreneur. Two such were Vincent Novello and his son Alfred, whose music publishing house enjoyed …
Singing Bourgeois
Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour
Inbunden, 2001
2588 kr
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First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that influenced the songs performed in middle class homes during the nineteenth century, from the …
Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
Inbunden, 2005
879 kr
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How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture. Analysing how …
Michael William Balfe
His Life and His English Operas
Inbunden, 2003
3015 kr
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Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on …
Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction
Av Nicky Losseff, Sophie Fuller
Inbunden, 2004
3564 kr
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The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The eleven essays here, written by musicologists and literary scholars, range over a …
English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music
Inbunden, 2002
2588 kr
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The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian England has been an area of scholarly neglect. This state of affairs is all the more surprising given that the quantity of such criticism in the …
Viotti and the Chinnerys
A Relationship Charted Through Letters
Av Denise Yim
Inbunden, 2004
3262 kr
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The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of the most significant forces in the history of violin playing. In 1792 he met Margaret and William Chinnery, a wealthy English couple with strong connections in the world of arts and …
Vincent Novello (1781–1861)
Music for the Masses
Inbunden, 2006
3262 kr
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Today Vincent Novello (1781-1861) is remembered as the father of the music-publishing firm. Fiona Palmer's evaluation of Novello the man and the musician in the marketplace draws on rich primary sources. It is the first to provide a rounded view of his life and work, and the nature of his …
Music and the Middle Class
The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848
Inbunden, 2003
2771 kr
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First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major themes of the book are …
Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies
Volume 3
Inbunden, 2003
2588 kr
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Selected from papers given at the third biennial conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, this volume, in common with its two predecessors, reflects the interdisciplinary character of the topic. The introductory essay by Julian Rushton foregrounds some of the questions that are key to …
Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music
Inbunden, 2006
2588 kr
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This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized vitality of musical theatre and other kinds of spectacle in Britain itself, and also the flourishing concert life of the period, indicates a means of defining …
In Search of Song: The Life and Times of Lucy Broadwood
Inbunden, 2011
2588 kr
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Born into the famous family of piano makers, Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929) became one of the chief collectors and scholars of the first English folk music revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Privately educated and trained as a classical musician and singer, she was inspired …
Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s
Portrayal of the East
Av Bennett Zon, Martin Clayton
Inbunden, 2007
2588 kr
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Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. …
Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts
Inbunden, 2008
2886 kr
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Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by …
Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?
Av T.E. Muir
Inbunden, 2008
2513 kr
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Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that grew from about 70,000 to 1.7 million people during the long nineteenth century. Contemporary literature of all kinds abounds, along with numerous collections of sheet music, some running …
Charles Hallé: A Musical Life
Av Robert Beale
Inbunden, 2007
2664 kr
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Charles Hallé was one of the leading musicians of the nineteenth century and intimate with almost all of the great composers and performers of his time, as well as a friend of the Royal Family and known as much as a pianist and chamber musician as a conductor, in London, throughout the country and …
Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
Instruments, Performers and Repertoire
Inbunden, 2007
2588 kr
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Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area of music for the piano during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into developments in the musical life of London, for a time the centre of piano …
