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.
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 ...
The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
1st Edition
Edited
By Phyllis Weliver
November 15, 2016
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 ...
Mendelssohn and Victorian England
1st Edition
By Colin Timothy Eatock
November 10, 2016
This valuable book considers the reception of the composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn in nineteenth-century England, and his influence on English musical culture. Despite the composer's immense popularity in the nation during his lifetime and in the decades following his ...
Michael William Balfe: His Life and His English Operas
1st Edition
By William Tyldesley
November 10, 2016
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 ...
Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?
1st Edition
By T.E. Muir
November 10, 2016
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...
The House of Novello: Practice and Policy of a Victorian Music Publisher, 1829–1866
1st Edition
By Victoria L. Cooper
November 10, 2016
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...
Viotti and the Chinnerys: A Relationship Charted Through Letters
1st Edition
By Denise Yim
November 10, 2016
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 ...