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Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351567640

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Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music by Julian Rushton Pdf

This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized vitality of musical theatre and other kinds of spectacle in Britain itself, and also the flourishing concert life of the period, indicates a means of defining tradition and identity within nineteenth-century British musical culture. The objective of the volume has been to add significantly to the growing literature on these topics. It benefits not only from new archival research, but also from fresh musicological approaches and interdisciplinary methods that recognize the integral role of music within a wider culture, including religious, political and social life. The essays are by scholars from the USA, Britain, and Europe, covering a wide range of experience. Topics range from the reception of Bach, Mozart, and Liszt in England, a musical response to Shakespeare, Italian opera in Dublin, exoticism, gender, black musical identities, British musicians in Canada, and uses of music in various theatrical genres and state ceremony, and in articulating the politics of the Union and Empire.

Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Rosemary Golding
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000564389

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Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Rosemary Golding Pdf

This volume of primary source material examines music and British national identity during the ninteenth century. Sources explore the reception of British music, continental and other foreign music, English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish music, and Empire. The collection of materials are accompanied by an introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of great value to students and scholars.

Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts

Author : Claire Mabilat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351555548

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Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts by Claire Mabilat Pdf

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 utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential. The author uses this theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering in order to analyse primary source materials, and in conjunction with musicological, literary and art theories, thus explores ways in which ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between different genres and artists. Part I, The Musical Stage, discusses elements of the libretti of popular musical stage works in this period, and the occasionally contradictory ways in which 'racial' Others was represented through text and music; a particular focus is the depiction of 'Oriental' women and ideas of sexuality. Through examination of this collection of libretti, the ways in which the writers of these works filter and romanticize the changing intellectual ideas of this era are explored. Part II, Works of Fiction, is a close study of the works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, using other examples of popular fiction by his contemporary writers as contextualizing material, with the primary concern being to investigate how music is utilized in popular fiction to represent Other non-Europeans and in the creation of orientalized gender constructions. Part III, Visual Culture, is an analysis of images of music and the 'Orient' in examples of British 'high art', illustration and photography, investigating how the musical Other was visualized.

Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : John Ling
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783276165

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Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century by John Ling Pdf

Situates the controversial narrative of 'The English Musical Renaissance' within its wider historical context.

Music and Academia in Victorian Britain

Author : Rosemary Golding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092629

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Music and Academia in Victorian Britain by Rosemary Golding Pdf

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 at the University of Edinburgh, in the early nineteenth century, that the idea of music as a university discipline commanded serious consideration. The debates that ensued considered not only music’s identity as art and science, but also the broader function of the university within education and society. Rosemary Golding traces the responses of some of the key players in musical and academic culture to the problems surrounding the establishment of music as an academic discipline. The focus is on four universities: Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge and London. The different institutional contexts, and the approaches taken to music in each university, showcase the various issues surrounding music’s academic identity, as well as wider problems of status and professionalism. In examining the way music challenged conceptions of education and professional identity in the nineteenth century, the book also sheds light on the way the academic study of music continues to challenge modern approaches to music and university education.

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

Author : Martin Clayton,Bennett Zon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754656047

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Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s by Martin Clayton,Bennett Zon Pdf

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 ce

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092384

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Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Bennett Zon Pdf

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explores Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions. Fittingly devoted to a significant element in Temperley's research, this book provides scholars of all nineteenth-century musical topics the opportunity to explore the richness of Britain's musical history.

Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1580462596

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Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain by Bennett Zon Pdf

Explores the influence of anthropological theories, travel literature, psychology, and other intellectual trends on the perception of non-Western music and elucidates the roots of today's field of ethnomusicology.

Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Paul Rodmell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092469

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Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Paul Rodmell Pdf

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 occupations and professions in society at large. This book provides a representative and varied sample of the interactions between music and organizations in various locations in the nineteenth-century British Empire, exploring not only how and why music was institutionalized, but also how and why institutions became 'musicalized'. Individual essays explore amateur societies that promoted music-making; institutions that played host to music-making groups, both amateur and professional; music in diverse educational institutions; and the relationships between music and what might be referred to as the 'institutions of state'. Through all of the essays runs the theme of the various ways in which institutions of varying formality and rigidity interacted with music and musicians, and the mutual benefit and exploitation that resulted from that interaction.

Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Trevor Herbert,Helen Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199898329

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Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century by Trevor Herbert,Helen Barlow Pdf

Although military music was among the most widespread forms of music making during the nineteenth-century, it has been almost totally overlooked by music historians. Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century however, shows that military bands reached far beyond the official ceremonial duties they are often primarily associated with and had a significant impact on wider spheres of musical and cultural life. Beginning with a discussion of the place of the military in civilian and social life, authors Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow plot the story of military music from its sponsorship by military officers to its role as an expression of imperial force, which it took on by the end of the nineteenth century. Herbert and Barlow organize their study around three themes: the use of military status to extend musical patronage by the officer class; the influence of the military on the civilian music establishments; and an incremental movement towards central control of military music making by governments throughout the world. In so doing, they show that military music impacted everything from the configuration of the music profession in the major metropolitan centers, to the development of wind instruments throughout the century, to the emergence of organized amateur music making. A much needed addition to the scholarship on nineteenth century music, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century is an essential reference for music, cultural and military historians, the social history of music and nineteenth century studies.

The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

Author : Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351541572

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The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture by Susan Wollenberg Pdf

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 manufacturing, publishing and performance. But none has focused on the piano exclusively within Britain. The eleven chapters in this volume explore major issues surrounding the instrument, its performers and music within an expanded geographical context created by the spread of the instrument and the growth of concert touring. Topics covered include: the piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a major provincial town; the reception of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum during the nineteenth century; the shift from composer-pianists to pianist-interpreters in the first half of the century that triggered crucial changes in piano performance and concert structure; the growth of musical life in the peripheries outside major musical centres; the pianist as advocate for contemporary composers as well as for historical repertory; the status of British pianists both in relation to foreigners on tour in Britain and as welcomed star performers in outposts of the Empire; marketing forces that had an impact on piano sales, concerts and piano careers; leading virtuosos, writers and critics; the important role played by women pianists and the development of the recording industry, bringing the volume into the early twentieth century.

The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914

Author : Pippa Drummond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317018759

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The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 by Pippa Drummond Pdf

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. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.

"Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s?940s "

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557580

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"Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s?940s " by Bennett Zon Pdf

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. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to its rightful place in histories of Orientalism. 'Interpreting Concert Music' looks at one of the principal forms in which Orientalism could be brought to an eager and largely receptive - yet sometimes resistant - mass market. 'Words and Music' investigates the confluence of musical and Orientalist themes in different genres of writing, including criticism, fiction and travel writing. Finally, 'The Orientalist Stage' discusses crucial sites of Orientalist representation - music theatre and opera - as well as tracing similar phenomena in twentieth-century Hindi cinema. These final chapters examine the rendering of the East as 'unachievable and unrecognizable' for the consuming gaze of the western spectator.

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Rachel Cowgill,Hilary Poriss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195365887

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The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century by Rachel Cowgill,Hilary Poriss Pdf

Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narrative of 19th and early 20th century opera. This book shines a light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled doomed women onstage before an audience.

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

Author : Roy Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351542111

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The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast by Roy Johnston Pdf

Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Before his death Roy Johnston, had written a full draft, based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention especially to contemporary newspapers. With the deft and sensitive contribution of Declan Plummer the finished book offers a telling view of Belfasts thriving musical life. Largely without the participation and example of local aristocracy, nobility and gentry, Belfasts musical society was formed largely by the townspeople themselves in the eighteenth century and by several instrumental and choral societies in the nineteenth century. As the town grew in size and developed an industrial character, its townspeople identified increasingly with the large industrial towns and cities of the British mainland. Efforts to place themselves on the principal touring circuit of the great nineteenth-century concert artists led them to build a concert hall not in emulation of Dublin but of the British industrial towns. Belfast audiences had experienced English opera in the eighteenth century, and in due course in the nineteenth century they found themselves receiving the touring opera companies, in theatres newly built to accommodate them. Through an energetic groundwork revision of contemporary sources, Johnston and Plummer reveal a picture of sustained vitality and development that justifies Belfasts prominent place the history of nineteenth-century musical culture in Ireland and more broadly in the British Isles.