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.
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 ...
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 ...