The Music Trade In Georgian England

Author : Michael Kassler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351542173

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The Music Trade in Georgian England by Michael Kassler Pdf

In contrast to today's music industry, whose principal products are recorded songs sold to customers round the world, the music trade in Georgian England was based upon London firms that published and sold printed music and manufactured and sold instruments on which this music could be played. The destruction of business records and other primary sources has hampered investigation of this trade, but recent research into legal proceedings, apprenticeship registers, surviving correspondence and other archived documentation has enabled aspects of its workings to be reconstructed. The first part of the book deals with Longman & Broderip, arguably the foremost English music seller in the late eighteenth century, and the firm's two successors - Broderip & Wilkinson and Muzio Clementi's variously styled partnerships - who carried on after Longman & Broderip's assets were divided in 1798. The next part shows how a rival music seller, John Bland, and his successors, used textual and thematic catalogues to advertise their publications. This is followed by a comprehensive review of the development of musical copyright in this period, a report of efforts by a leading inventor, Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, to transform the ways in which music was printed and recorded, and a study of Georg Jacob Vollweiler's endeavour to introduce music lithography into England. The book should appeal not only to music historians but also to readers interested in English business history, publishing history and legal history between 1714 and 1830.

Author : Michael Kassler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351542166

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The Music Trade in Georgian England by Michael Kassler Pdf

In contrast to today's music industry, whose principal products are recorded songs sold to customers round the world, the music trade in Georgian England was based upon London firms that published and sold printed music and manufactured and sold instruments on which this music could be played. The destruction of business records and other primary sources has hampered investigation of this trade, but recent research into legal proceedings, apprenticeship registers, surviving correspondence and other archived documentation has enabled aspects of its workings to be reconstructed. The first part of the book deals with Longman & Broderip, arguably the foremost English music seller in the late eighteenth century, and the firm's two successors - Broderip & Wilkinson and Muzio Clementi's variously styled partnerships - who carried on after Longman & Broderip's assets were divided in 1798. The next part shows how a rival music seller, John Bland, and his successors, used textual and thematic catalogues to advertise their publications. This is followed by a comprehensive review of the development of musical copyright in this period, a report of efforts by a leading inventor, Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, to transform the ways in which music was printed and recorded, and a study of Georg Jacob Vollweiler's endeavour to introduce music lithography into England. The book should appeal not only to music historians but also to readers interested in English business history, publishing history and legal history between 1714 and 1830.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0300256191

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The Guitar in Georgian England by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosemary Golding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351965743

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The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920 by Rosemary Golding Pdf

Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Trades and occupations sought protection and improved status via alignment with the professions: an attempt to impose order and standards amid rapid social change, urbanisation and technological development. The structures and expectations governing the music profession were no exception, and were central to changing perceptions of musicians and music itself during the long nineteenth century. The central themes of status and identity run throughout this book, charting ways in which the music profession engaged with its place in society. Contributors investigate the ways in which musicians viewed their own identities, public perceptions of the working musician, the statuses of different sectors of the profession and attempts to manipulate both status and identity. Ten chapters examine a range of sectors of the music profession, from publishers and performers to teachers and military musicians, and overall themes include class, gender and formal accreditation. The chapters demonstrate the wide range of sectors within the music profession, the different ways in which these took on status and identity, and the unique position of professional musicians both to adopt and to challenge social norms.

Author : Isabella Alexander,H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781783472406

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Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law by Isabella Alexander,H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui Pdf

There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. Crucial to this activity has been a burgeoning focus on unpublished primary sources, enabling new and stimulating insights. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future.

Author : Trevor Herbert,Helen Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199898312

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

The first book to explore the contribution made by the military to British music history, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century 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.

Author : Luca Lévi Sala,Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351800884

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Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture by Luca Lévi Sala,Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald Pdf

Recent scholarship has vanquished the traditional perception of nineteenth-century Britain as a musical wasteland. In addition to attempting more balanced assessments of the achievements of British composers of this period, scholars have begun to explore the web of reciprocal relationships between the societal, economic and cultural dynamics arising from the industrial revolution, the Napoleonic wars, and the ever-changing contours of British music publishing, music consumption, concert life, instrument design, performance practice, pedagogy and composition. Muzio Clementi (1752–1832) provides an ideal case-study for continued exploration of this web of relationships. Based in London for much of his life, whilst still maintaining contact with continental developments, Clementi achieved notable success in a diversity of activities that centred mainly on the piano. The present book explores Clementi’s multivalent contribution to piano performance, pedagogy, composition and manufacture in relation to British musical life and its international dimensions. An overriding purpose is to interrogate when, how and to what extent a distinctive British musical culture emerged in the early nineteenth century. Much recent work on Clementi has centred on the Italian National Edition of his complete works (MiBACT); several chapters report on this project, whilst continuing to pursue the book’s broader themes.

Author : Christina Fuhrmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107022218

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Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses by Christina Fuhrmann Pdf

London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.

Author : Roger Hansford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317135302

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Figures of the Imagination by Roger Hansford Pdf

This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people’s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance novels by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Edward Bulwer and Charles Kingsley in the period 1790–1850, interrogating the ways that music served to create mood and atmosphere, enlivened social scenes and contributed to plot developments. He explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their intersection as examples of material culture. Hansford’s intersectional reading revolves around a series of imaginative figures – including the minstrel, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, and witches, and Christians engaged both in virtue and vice – the identities of which remained consistent as influence passed between the art forms. While romance authors quoted song lyrics and included musical descriptions and characters, their novels recorded and modelled the performance of songs by the middle and upper classes, influencing the work of composers and the actions of performers who read romance fiction.

Author : Randi Margrete Selvik,Svein Gladsø,Annabella Skagen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000296570

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Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860 by Randi Margrete Selvik,Svein Gladsø,Annabella Skagen Pdf

Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860: Questioning Canons reveals how various cultural processes have influenced what has been included, and what has been marginalised from canons of European music, dance, and theatre around the turn of the nineteenth century and the following decades. This collection of essays includes discussion of the piano repertory for young ladies in England; canonisation of the French minuet; marginalisation of the popular German dramatist Kotzebue from the dramatic canon; dance repertory and social life in Christiania (Oslo); informal cultural activities in Trondheim; repertory of Norwegian musical clocks; female itinerant performers in the Nordic sphere; preconditions, dissemination, and popularity of equestrian drama; marginalisation and amateur staging of a Singspiel by the renowned Danish playwright Oehlenschläger, also with perspectives on the music and its composers; and the perceived relevance of Henrik Ibsen’s staged theatre repertory and early dramas. By questioning established notions about canon, marginalisation, and relevance within the performing arts in the period 1770–1860, this book asserts itself as an intriguing text both to the culturally interested public and to scholars and students of musicology, dance research, and theatre studies.

Author : Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830560

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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London by Oskar Cox Jensen Pdf

An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Music
ISBN : IOWA:31858027393382

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Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amanda Vickery
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300188561

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Behind Closed Doors by Amanda Vickery Pdf

From the award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. The basis of a 3-part TV series for BBC2. “Vickery is that rare thing, an…historian who writes like a novelist.”—Jane Schilling, Daily Mail “Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible…This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship.”—Lisa Hilton, The Independent “If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Music trade
ISBN : PRNC:32101080200056

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Music Trades by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Plumb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857739285

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The Georgian Menagerie by Christopher Plumb Pdf

In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their trade in London in this period the predecessors to the zoological societies of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded and seaborne trade flooded into London's ports, the menagerists gained access to animals from the most far-flung corners of the globe, and these strange creatures became the objects of fascination and wonder. Many aristocratic families sought to create their own private menageries with which to entertain their guests, while for the less well-heeled, touring exhibitions of exotic creatures both alive and dead satisfied their curiosity for the animal world. While many exotic creatures were treasured as a form of spectacle, others fared less well turtles went into soups and civet cats were sought after for ingredients for perfume. In this entertaining and enlightening book, Plumb introduces the many tales of exotic animals in London.