Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Contributors: Susan Wollenberg (Editor); Simon McVeigh (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780754638681
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Music; c 1700 to c 1800; History and criticism; Great Britain; Music/Songbooks; British Isles; Instruction & Study - General; Concerts; History & Criticism - General; 18th century; History
First sentence: As we struggle to imagine what a concert in the eighteenth century looked like, even perhaps what it felt like, we can hardly do better than start with Oxford's Holywell Music Room; and it is fitting that this book should have had its origins in a celebration of its history.