A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England

Gordon D W Curtis

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• 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 cha... Lees meer

Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• This collection of essays explores the interrelationship of music and theology in relation to the religious, musical and social history of nineteenth-... Lees meer

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era

Karen McAulay

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections. Looking at source... Lees meer

Michael William Balfe

William Tyldesley

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. During his lifetime ... Lees meer

Music and the Middle Class

William Weber

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological a... Lees meer

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• This is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. An introduction expl... Lees meer

The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area of music for th... Lees meer

The House of Novello

Victoria L Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• By the mid-nineteenth century music publishing was no longer the provenance of shopkeepers, instrument makers or individual scholars, but a business e... Lees meer

Music and World-Building in the Colonial City

Helen J English

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, f... Lees meer

Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s

Bennett Zon

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the r... Lees meer

The English Bach Awakening

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach's music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been calle... Lees meer

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction

Nicky Losseff

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-cen... Lees meer

French Music in Britain 1830-1914

Paul J Rodmell

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• French Music in Britain 1830-1914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival ... Lees meer

Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology

Bennett Zon

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• '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 wit... Lees meer

Mendelssohn and Victorian England

Colin Timothy Eatock

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• This valuable book considers the reception of the composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn in nineteenth-century England, and his i... Lees meer

Figures of the Imagination

Roger Hansford

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emergin... Lees meer

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791-1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

T E Muir

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• 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 ... Lees meer

The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914

Meirion Hughes

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian E... Lees meer

Singing the English

Hannah L Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Singing the English explores the period from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to the Entente Cordiale in 1904 through the lenses of the cultural histor... Lees meer

The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration an... Lees meer

Richard D'Oyly Carte

Paul Seeley

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• The first biography of Richard D'Oyly Carte, this is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partners... Lees meer

In Search of Song: The Life and Times of Lucy Broadwood

Dorothy De Val

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• 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 musi... Lees meer

Figures of the Imagination

Roger Hansford

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emergin... Lees meer

Viotti and the Chinnerys

Denise Yim

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of the most significant forces in the his... Lees meer