Victorian soundscapes revisited
By: edited by Martin Hewitt and Rachel Cowgill
Contributors: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
Series: Leeds working papers in Victorian studies -- v. 9; Leeds Centre working papers in Victorian studies -- v. 9
Publisher: Trinity and All Saints/Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Horsforth, Leeds
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780954015985
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Sounds in literature; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Roundtable: Victorian soundscapes and the potential for interdisciplinary exchange / Stephen Banfield, et. al.; title: Victorian soundscapes revisited / John Picker; title: Elevated aspirations versus limitations of reality : string playing style and practice in Victorian England / David Milsom; title: The phenomenon of the cellist Auguste van Biene : from the Charing Cross Road to Brighton via Broadway / George Kennaway; title: Challenging the Victorian musical soundscape : "progressive repertoire and "The Working Men's Society" / Michael Allis; title: Silences in the Sonnets from the Portuguese / Rhian Williams; title: Voicing, de-voicing and self-silencing : Charles Kingsley's stuttering Christian manliness / Louise Lee; title: Hearing velocity : the Doppler-efffect in Mendelssohn's song 'Neue Liebe" / Julia H. Schröder; title: The sounds of industry in Dickens and Gaskell / Christopher Louttit; title: Instruments of ambivalence : Dante Gabriel Rosetti and aural anxiety after 1860 / Karen Yuen; title: Musical diplomacy and Mary Gladstone's diary / Phyllis Weliver; title: "The exponent of the life and soul of the city" : the town hall as a music venue in the nineteenth century / Rachel Milestone; title: On the beat : the Victorian policeman as musician / Rachel Cowgill.