Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914
By: edited by Rachel Cowgill and Peter Holman.
Contributors: Cowgill, Rachel.; Holman, Peter, 1946-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Limited
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754631606
Subjects: Music -- Societies, etc. -- Great Britain -- History; Concerts -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A pretty knot of musical friends" : the Ferrar brothers and a Stamford music club in the 1690s / Bryan White; title: Music in the Minster Close : Edward Finch, Valentine Nalson and William Knight in early eighteenth-century York / David Griffiths; title: A little light on Lorenzo Bocchi : an Italian in Edinburgh and Dublin / Peter Holman; title: Joah Bates, William Herschel, and the Messiah Club : musical amateurs, artisans, and professionals in 1760s Halifax / Rachel Cowgill; title: The role of gentlemen amateurs in subscription concerts in north-east England during the eighteenth century / Roz Southey; title: The string quartet in eighteenth-century provincial concert life / Meredith McFarlane; title: John Baptist Malchair of Oxford and his collection of national music / Susan Wollenberg; title: Music of rural byway and rotten borough : a study of musical life in North Wiltshire, c. 1750-1830 / Christopher Kent; title: Mr White, of Leeds / Robert Demaine; title: The Larks of Dean : amateur musicians in the north of England / Sally Drage; title: Finding themselves : musical revolutions in nineteenth-century Staffordshire / Sarah E. Taylor; title: Lost luggage : Giovanni Puzzi and the management of Giovanni Rubini's farewell tour in 1842 / E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer; title: Outside the cathedral : Samuel Sebastian Wesley, local music-making, and the provincial organist in mid-nineteenth-century England / Peter Horton; title: Music for St Cuthbert, patron saint of the faithful north : the musical repertory of St Cuthbert's Catholic Church, Durham, 1827-1910 / Thomas Muir; title: That monstrosity of bricks and mortar : the town hall as music venue in nineteenth-century Stalybridge /  Rachel Milestone; title: The provincial musical festival in Britain in the nineteenth century : a case study of Bridlington / Catherine Dale; title: Educating England : networks of programme-note provision in the nineteenth century; title: Christina Bashford.