Victorian Music: A social and cultural history - Image 1

£69.00

Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd Victorian Music: A social and cultural history

Name: Victorian Music: A social and cultural history
Brand: Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
Price: 75.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

History & Criticism

Price data last checked 64 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 27 days • 27 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 27 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £75 (20 days, 74.1%)

Price range: £69 - £75

Price levels: 2 different prices over 27 days

Description

This major new book provides a sparkling and detailed account of classical, modern, and popular music throughout Queen Victoria's long reign.It completes the acclaimed series of classic studies by Professor Briggs, published as Victorian Cities, Victorian People, and Victorian Things. Lord Briggs has written the work with the music specialist Janet Lovegrove.The approach is deliberately chronological. It observes the music scene - both metropolitan and provincial - at twenty-year intervals. It particularly shows how contemporaries themselves perceived music in 1837, 1857, 1877 and 1897. These twenty-year intervals bring out the scale of change and the balance between continuities and contrasts at each point in the story. The intervening decades are more briefly explored. An Epilogue (1901) completes the picture.The authors trace the repertory of opera, of orchestral, choral, chamber and popular music. They show the performers, theatres, halls and rooms. They provide many illuminating stories of the lives and work of the composers, writers and critics, publishers, teachers and lecturers, who were keen to bring music to the many rather the few.London was linked to the provinces by cathedral, church or festival, and education. Key factors were the dissemination of printed music, the musical evangelism of the sight-singing movement, the national distribution achieved by the railways, and the implementation of a national educational system from 1870 onwards. An important element in this was the contribution made to 'progress' by provincial cities, most often through the proliferation of Festivals.No less important were the efforts of English musicians, composers, performers and teachers alike, to achieve status in a country where there was a strong amateur presence.There was also pressure from below, and a difference - often an indifference - in the role and interests of government, local and national. However, the dynamic steps taken to found modern music institutions are traced. Comparisons are made (as did the Victorians) between English and foreign performers and composers, the 'giants' of the past and present. The last chapters show the breaking away, never complete, from 'foreign domination' and the identification of an English musical 'renaissance.'The book is well illustrated. These pictures complete the overwhelming impression of an era teeming with energy and ambition, in music as in all else. The era laid the foundations of the musical heritage and standards we enjoy today.

Product Specifications

Brand: Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1911454587
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 July 2018
Listed Since: 17 May 2017

Barcode

No barcode data available

Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd Victorian Music: A social and cultural history

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Music in the British Provinces, 1690–1914

Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and his Family (Music in Britain, 1600-2000)

British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800: Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone: 28 (Music in Britain, 1600-2000)

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy? (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

Musical Visitors to Britain (Woburn Education Series)

Routledge - Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy? (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77

The Canterbury Catch Club 1826: Music in the Frame

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas: Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage

Routledge - Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide Book

Bloomsbury - The Origins and Foundations of Music Education

Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London

A History of Victorian Literature: 5 (Blackwell History of Literature)

Victorian Literature and Culture (Introductions to British Literature and Culture)

Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World)

Routledge - Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in British Music

The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume II, 1968-1984: From Hyde Park to the Hacienda: 2 (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

The Music Trade in Georgian England

The Music Trade in Georgian England

Visual Words: Art and the Material Book in Victorian England (Routledge Revivals)

The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Instruments, Performers and Repertoire (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts

British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (Music in Britain, 1600-2000)