Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
About the Book Series
So much of our ‘common’ knowledge of music in nineteenth-century Britain is bound up with received ideas. This series disputes their validity through research critically reassessing our perceptions of the period. Volumes in the series cover wide-ranging areas such as composers and composition; conductors, management and entrepreneurship; performers and performing; music criticism and the press; concert venues and promoters; church music and music theology; repertoire, genre, analysis and theory; instruments and technology; music education and pedagogy; publishing, printing and book selling; reception, historiography and biography; women and music; masculinity and music; gender and sexuality; domestic music-making; empire, orientalism and exoticism; and music in literature, poetry, theatre and dance.
A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880–1951
1st Edition
By Karen E. McAulay
October 30, 2024
Late Victorian Scotland had a flourishing music publishing trade, evidenced by the survival of a plethora of vocal scores and dance tune books; and whether informing us what people actually sang and played at home, danced to, or enjoyed in choirs, or reminding us of the impact of emigration from ...
Singing the English: Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870–1904
1st Edition
By Hannah L. Scott
January 29, 2024
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. ...
French Music in Britain 1830–1914
1st Edition
By Paul Rodmell
May 30, 2022
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 ...
Music and World-Building in the Colonial City: Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860–1880
1st Edition
By Helen English
February 01, 2022
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, ...
Arthur Sullivan: A Musical Reappraisal
1st Edition
By Benedict Taylor
February 07, 2019
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 ...
Figures of the Imagination: Fiction and Song in Britain, 1790–1850
1st Edition
By Roger Hansford
February 04, 2019
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 ...
Music in The Girl's Own Paper: An Annotated Catalogue, 1880–1910
1st Edition
By Judith Barger
September 18, 2018
Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural worlds, of which music making was an important part. The Girl's Own Paper, first published in 1880, stands out because of its rich musical ...
The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Instruments, Performers and Repertoire
1st Edition
Edited
By Therese Ellsworth, Susan Wollenberg
October 06, 2017
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 ...
Charles Villiers Stanford
1st Edition
By Paul Rodmell
August 30, 2017
The first book devoted to the composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) since 1935, this survey provides the fullest account of his life and the most detailed appraisal of his music to date. Renowned in his own lifetime for the rapid rate at which he produced new works, Stanford was also an ...
The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music
1st Edition
By Meirion Hughes
March 29, 2017
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 ...
Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848
1st Edition
By William Weber
January 27, 2017
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 ...
A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England: William Sweetland of Bath
1st Edition
By Gordon D.W. Curtis
November 28, 2016
William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs, mostly for churches and chapels in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, but also for locations scattered south of a line from the Wirral to the Wash. Gordon Curtis places ...