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Author : David Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chamber music of eighteenth-century Scotland written by David Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841830490
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century written by David Johnson and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Johnson's classic study describes Scotland in the eighteenth century, a period when music, both folk and classical, flourished. Thomas Erskine, the Earl of Kelly, is the most remarkable composer of the time, but this book shows how the vibrant musical flowering left no section of society untouched. Musical societies and assemblies were active in all the main towns; the gatherings of genteel society revolved around performances of music and dancing; and among folk instrumentalists the fiddle was overtaking the bagpipe as the mainstay of popular entertainment. At this time both the folk and the classical traditions were at a peak and developing rapidly. One of the achievements of this book is to show the complexity of the relationship between these two main strands of Scottish culture. Much of the repertoire of present-day traditional fiddle music, sometimes romantically depicted as the creation of generations of illiterate farm workers, originated in the eighteenth century through the interplay of classical and folk musicians (many of whom could read music). As remarkable as this hundred-year burst of creative activity is its sudden collapse.Almost two centuries passed before, in our own time, Scottish music has again begun to flourish. In a provocative new introduction to this edition, David Johnson casts a critical eye over the current musical scene in Scotland. He shows how the eighteenth century experience sheds light on the present day, and on what is likely to happen next. If the recent Scottish musical renaissance is to continue, it will have to learn the lessons, so masterfully unfolded here, of an earlier golden period of Scottish music.
Author : William McGibbon
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1987200578
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Complete Sonatas written by William McGibbon and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now better known for his collections of Scottish tunes with variations, William McGibbon (16961756) was the best-known and most popular violinist-composer in Edinburgh in the eighteenth century. His three volumes of trio sonatasone of which survives only in fragmentary formcombine fluidity of writing with Corellian influence. The 1729 set was the first music published in Scotland for the transverse flute, and its sixth trio sonata features virtuosic violin writing as well. This edition contains twelve trio sonatas, six solo sonatas, six flute duets, and the surviving first flute part of the fragmentary third volume of trio sonatas.
Author : John Purser
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scotland's Music written by John Purser and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work spans some 3,000 years, dealing with traditional and classical music from the earliest artifacts to the vigorous folk and popular music of Scotland today. But it is not only this awareness of the full historical and cultural perspective of the Scottish music which makes this book so significant; its chronological treatment relates the country's rich wealth of music to its political and artistic history.
Author : Henry George Farmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Concerts in 18th Century Scotland written by Henry George Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry George Farmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Music in 18th Century Scotland written by Henry George Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191617008
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Scottish and Irish Romanticism written by Murray Pittock and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of 'national literature'. He proposes certain determining 'triggers' for the recognition of the presence of a national literature, and also deals with two major problems which are holding back the development of a new and broader understanding of British Isles Romanticisms: the survival of outdated assumptions in ostensibly more modern paradigms, and a lack of understanding of the full range of dialogues and relationships across the literatures of these islands. The theorists whose works chiefly inform the book are Bakhtin, Fanon and Habermas, although they do not define its arguments, and an alertness to the ways in which other literary theories inform each other is present throughout the book. Pittock examines in turn the historiography, prejudices, and assumptions of Romantic criticism to date, and how our unexamined prejudices still stand in the way of our understanding of individual traditions and the dialogues between them. He then considers Allan Ramsay's role in song-collecting, hybridizing high cultural genres with broadside forms, creating in synthetic Scots a 'language really used by men', and promoting a domestic public sphere. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss the Scottish and Irish public spheres in the later eighteenth century, together with the struggle for control over national pasts, and the development of the cults of Romance, the Picturesque and Sentiment: Macpherson, Thomson, Owenson and Moore are among the writers discussed. Chapter 5 explores the work of Robert Fergusson and his contemporaries in both Scotland and Ireland, examining questions of literary hybridity across not only national but also linguistic borders, while Chapter 6 provides a brief literary history of Burns' descent into critical neglect combined with a revaluation of his poetry in the light of the general argument of the book. Chapter 7 analyzes the complexities of the linguistic and cultural politics of the national tale in Ireland through the work of Maria Edgeworth, while the following chapter considers of Scott in relation to the national tale, Enlightenment historiography, and the European nationalities question. Chapter 9 looks at the importance of the Gothic in Scottish and Irish Romanticism, particularly in the work of James Hogg and Charles Maturin, while Chapter 10, 'Fratriotism', explores a new concept in the manner in which Scottish and Irish literary, political and military figures of the period related to Empire.
Author : David Johnson
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century written by David Johnson and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748672664
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book History of Scottish Women's Writing written by Douglas Gifford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Author : Simon McKerrell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317806220
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Focus: Scottish Traditional Music written by Simon McKerrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus: Scottish Traditional Music engages methods from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, and media studies to explain how complex Scottish identities and culture are constructed in the traditional music and culture of Scotland. This book examines Scottish music through their social and performative contexts, outlining vocal traditions such as lullabies, mining songs, Scottish ballads, herding songs, and protest songs as well as instrumental traditions such as fiddle music, country dances, and informal evening pub sessions. Case studies explore the key ideas in understanding Scotland musically by exploring ethnicity, Britishness, belonging, politics, transmission and performance, positioning the cultural identity of Scotland within the United Kingdom. Visit the author's companion website at http://www.scottishtraditionalmusic.org/ for additional resources.
Author : Peter Borsay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307793
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A History of Leisure written by Peter Borsay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leisure is a key aspect of modern living. How did our ancestors experience recreation in the past, and how does this relate to the present? To answer these questions, Peter Borsay examines the history of leisure in Britain over the past 500 years, analysing elements of both continuity and change. A History of Leisure - Explores a range of pastimes, from festive culture and music to tourism and sport - Emphasises a conceptual and critical approach, rather than a simple narrative history - Covers a range of themes including economy, state, class, identities, place, space and time - Treats the constituent parts of the British Isles as a fluid and dynamic amalgam of local and national cultures and polities Authoritative and engaging, this text challenges conventional views on the history of leisure and suggests new approaches to the subject. Borsay draws upon the insights provided by a variety of disciplines alongside that of history - anthropology, the arts, geography and sociology - to offer an essential guide to this fascinating area of study.
Author : Abby Newton
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609742346
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Crossing to Scotland written by Abby Newton and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the cello is usually considered a classical instrument, but from the late 17th to early 19th centuries it was used in folk ensembles to provide low, driving rhythms for dance tunes and to render haunting Scottish airs. Within the folk music revival of the past forty years there has been a small but dedicated movement to restore the unique richness of the cello to traditional music, and Abby Newton has been on the forefront of that movement. Abby has been deeply involved with Scottish music ever since, traveling to and performing in Scotland many times. the airs, planxties and reels in this book come from traditional and contemporary sources, including the 18th-century fiddler Neil Gow, harper Turlough O'Carolan, Daithi Sproule, David Hornung, Alasdair Fraser, Ronnie Aimes, and others. All 19 of the tunes are written for solo cello with chord symbols included on most tunes for an accompanying instrument. the text also includes the author's notes on the origin of each tune.
Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000144364
Total Pages : 4319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to British History written by David Loades and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Author : Norman C Milne
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1899820795
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Scottish Culture and Traditions written by Norman C Milne and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an insight to what life was like in Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. What folk ate, drank, their music and general way of life. Clan tartans did not exist until the early 1800s and this book explains in detail the dress and weaponry of a Highlander and why they wore Highland garb. The Jacobite battles from 1689-1719 are also outlined for the reader.
Author : John Alfred Dwyer
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sociability and Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland written by John Alfred Dwyer and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Holman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557319
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Music in the British Provinces, 1690?914 " written by Peter Holman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period covered by this volume, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British musical history. Much has been done recently to revise this view, though research still tends to focus on London as the commercial and cultural hub of the British Isles. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that by the mid-eighteenth century musical activity outside London was highly distinctive in terms of its reach, the way it was organized, and its size, richness, and quality. There was an extraordinary amount of musical activity of all sorts, in provincial theatres and halls, in the amateur orchestras and choirs that developed in most towns of any size, in taverns, and convivial clubs, in parish churches and dissenting chapels, and, of course, in the home. This is the first book to concentrate specifically on musical life in the provinces, bringing together new archival research and offering a fresh perspective on British music of the period. The essays brought together here testify to the vital role played by music in provincial culture, not only in socializing and networking, but in regional economies and rivalries, demographics and class dynamics, religion and identity, education and recreation, and community and the formation of tradition. Most important, perhaps, as our focus shifts from London to the regions, new light is shed on neglected figures and forgotten repertoires, all of them worthy of reconsideration.
Author : Gerald Newman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815303961
Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837 written by Gerald Newman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1714, king George I ushered in a remarkable 123-year period of energy that changed the face of Britain and ultimately had a profound effect on the modern era. The pioneers of modern capitalism, industry, democracy, literature, and even architecture flourished during this time and their innovations and influence spread throughout the British empire, including the United States. Now this rich cultural period in Britain is effectively surveyed and summarized for quick reference in a first-of-its-kind encyclopedia, which contains entries by British, Canadian, American, and Australian scholars specializing in everything from finance and the fine arts to politics and patent law. More than 380 illustrations, mostly rare engravings, enhance the coverage, which runs the whole gamut of political, economic, literary, intellectual, artistic, commercial, and social life, and spotlights some 600 prominent individuals and families.
