The Life and Music of Elizabeth Maconchy

Erica Erica Siegel

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 32
• The first full-length biographical study of (Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer (Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-199... 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
• The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centur... Lees meer

Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire

Sarah Kirby

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 30
• International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, th... 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

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
• British music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called 'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once considered bar... Lees meer

With Mornefull Musique: Funeral Elegies in Early Modern England

K Dawn Grapes

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 21
• This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England. This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England. In p... Lees meer

Composing History

Deborah Heckert

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 | nr. 20
• A study of the ways in which topics of English history were central to conceptions of English identity, musical and otherwise, during the Victorian an... Lees meer