The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England

Tim Eggington

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 11
• Casts new and valuable light on English musical history and on Enlightenment culture more generally. This is a book guaranteed to make waves. It skilf... Lees meer

The Life and Music of Elizabeth Maconchy

Erica Siegel

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 32
• The first full-length biographical study of Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer (Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) is b... Lees meer

Music in Edwardian London

Simon McVeigh

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 33
• Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of ... Lees meer

Organ-Building in Georgian and Victorian England

Nicholas Thistlethwaite

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 24
• The London firm of Gray (later Gray & Davison) was one of Britain's leading organ-makers between the 1790s and the 1880s. Established for the building... Lees meer

Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714

Thomas McGeary

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 31
• Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The rei... Lees meer

John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain

George Kennaway

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 29
• Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources. The Scottish cellist and antiqu... Lees meer

Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher

Tessa Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 10
• An essential book for scholars and students of renaissance music, as well as the history of music publishing and print. The Renaissance composer and o... Lees meer

Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire

Sarah Kirby

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 30
• Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the ... Lees meer

Musical Exchange Between Britain and Europe, 1500-1800

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 25
• This book explores the exchange of music, musicians and musical practice between Britain and the Continent in the period c.1500-1800. This book explor... Lees meer

George Smart and Nineteenth-Century London Concert Life

John Carnelley

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 12
• The first full length study of Sir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867), musical animateur and early champion of the music of Beethoven Sir George Thomas S... Lees meer

Music in North-East England, 1500-1800

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 27
• This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture. Music in North-East England provides a wide... Lees meer

Before the Baton

Peter Holman

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 23
• How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s? This book investigates the ways large-scale... Lees meer

Music in Edwardian London

Simon McVeigh

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 33
• Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of ... Lees meer

British Music, Musicians and Institutions, C. 1630-1800

Peter Lynan, Julian Rushton

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 28
• Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investiga... Lees meer

The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 26
• The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950aims to raise the status of the genre generally, and in Britain specifically, by reaffirming British composers'... Lees meer