Music and performance culture in nineteenth-century Britain
Subtitle: essays in honour of Nicholas Temperley
By: [edited by] Bennett Zon
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409439790; 9781409439806
Subjects: Performance; History and criticism; Music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Musical cultures. Hidden agendas and the creation of community : the violin press in the late nineteenth century / Christina Bashford ; Joining up the dots : cross-channel models in the shaping of London orchestral culture, 1895-1914 / Leanne Langley ; Charles Garland Verrinder and music at the West London Synagogue, 1859-1904 / Susan Wollenberg ; Music, morality, and rational amusement at the Victorian middle-class soirée / Derek B Scott; title: Societies. Trial by dining club : the instrumental music of Haydn, Clementi and Mozart at London's Anacreontic Society / Simon McVeigh ; Performance in private : 'The working men's society' and the promotion of progressive repertoire in 19th-century Britain / Michael Allis ; American songs, pastoral nationalism, and the English temperance cantata / Charles McGuire; title: National music. The British vocal album and the struggle for national music / Peter Horton ; Musicking caractacus / Julian Rushton; title: Methods. The conductor at the organ, or how choral and orchestral music was directed in Georgian England / Peter Holman ; William Cole's view of modern psalmody / Sally Drage ; Samuel Wesley and the development of organ pedals in England / Philip Olleson ; Recapitulation and the musical education of Victorian children : the Child's Pianoforte Book (1882) by H. Keatley Moore / Bennett Zon.