Europe, empire, and spectacle in nineteenth-century British music
By: edited by Rachel Cowgill and Julian Rushton.
Contributors: Cowgill, Rachel.; Rushton, Julian.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; Music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Europe : continental connections. "Hence, base intruder, hence" : rejection and assimilation in the early English reception of Mozart's Requiem / Rachel Cowgill ; William Sterndale Bennett and the Bach revival in nineteenth-century England / Isabel Parrott ; "Le roi est mort, vive le roi" : languages and leadership in Niecks's Liszt obituary / Anne Widén ; Promotion through performance : Liszt's symphonic poems in the London concerts of Walter Bache / Michael Allis ; Henry Hugo Pierson and Shakespearean tragedy / Julian Rushton ; "The Italians are coming" : opera in mid-Victorian Dublin / Paul Rodmell; title: Empire : Britain, Ireland, and beyond. Sir Frederick Bridge and the musical furtherance of the 1902 Imperial project / David Wright ; Attwood's St. David's Day : music, Wales, and war in 1800 / Meirion Hughes ; Hamish MacCunn : a Scottish national composer? / Jennifer Oates ; For the sake of the union : the nation in Stanford's Fourth Irish rhapsody / Christopher Scheer ; "From ocean to ocean; title: " : how Harriss and Mackenzie toured British music across Canada in 1903 / Duncan Barker ; From "incomprehensibility" to "meaning" : transcription and representation of non-Western music in nineteenth-century British musicology and ethnomusicology / Bennett Zon; title: Spectacle : theatre, opera, and internationalism. "Behind thy veil close-drawn" : Elgar, the crown of India, and the feminine "other" / Corissa Gould ; Empire and "Orient" in opera libretti set by Sir Henry Bishop and Edward Solomon / Claire Walsh ; Acting with music : Henry Irving's use of the musical score in his production of The bells / Stephen Cockett; title: Handel's Acis and Galatea : a Victorian view / Roberta Marvin; title: Blackface minstrels, black minstrels, and their reception in England / Derek B. Scott.