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.
Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): A Musical Life
1st Edition
By Jennifer L. Oates
November 28, 2016
Hamish MacCunn’s career unfolded amidst the restructuring of British musical culture and the rewriting of the Western European political landscape. Having risen to fame in the late 1880s with a string of Scottish works, MacCunn further highlighted his Caledonian background by cultivating a Scottish...
Music and Academia in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
By Rosemary Golding
November 28, 2016
Until the nineteenth century, music occupied a marginal place in British universities. Degrees were awarded by Oxford and Cambridge, but students (and often professors) were not resident, and there were few formal lectures. It was not until a benefaction initiated the creation of a professorship of...
Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology
1st Edition
By Bennett Zon
November 24, 2016
’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 ...
The English Bach Awakening: Knowledge of J.S. Bach and his Music in England, 1750–1830
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Kassler
November 23, 2016
The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach's music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called 'the English Bach revival', but that is a misnomer. 'Revival' implies prior life, yet no reference to Bach or to his music is known to have been ...
The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914
1st Edition
By Pippa Drummond
November 22, 2016
A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. ...
Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Rodmell
November 17, 2016
In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introduction of music into powerful institutions, both out of belief in music's inherently beneficial properties, and also to promote music ...
Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era
1st Edition
By Karen McAulay
November 17, 2016
One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it fell to the ...
Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts
1st Edition
By Claire Mabilat
November 16, 2016
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 ...
Charles Hallé: A Musical Life
1st Edition
By Robert Beale
November 15, 2016
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 ...
In Search of Song: The Life and Times of Lucy Broadwood
1st Edition
By Dorothy de Val
November 15, 2016
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
1st Edition
By Bennett Zon, Martin Clayton
November 15, 2016
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....
Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies: Volume 3
1st Edition
By Peter Horton, Bennett Zon
November 15, 2016
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 ...