"Food for Apollo"
Subtitle: cultivated music in antebellum Philadelphia
By: Dorothy T. Potter
Series: Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bethlehem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780982131398; 9781611460025; 9781611460032
Subjects: Social life and customs; Music; History and criticism..
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philadelphia's musical beginnings, 1700-1786; title: From city tavern to musical fund society hall : Philadelphia's music in transition, 1786-1831; title: Cultivated music adapts and thrives, 1831-1861; title: Music for the masses : publishers and piano makers, 1786-1861; title: Historians, critics, and romantics : Mozart in literature, 1803-1861.