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Author : Henry PHILLIPS (Vocalist)
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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Musical and Personal Recollections During Half a Century written by Henry PHILLIPS (Vocalist) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Phillips
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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Musical and Personal Recollections During Half a Century written by Henry Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Phillips
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ISBN 13 : 9783348047265
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Musical and Personal Recollections written by Henry Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Phillips
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Musical and Personal Recollections During Half a Century written by Henry Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book The World's Best Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Rohr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139429302
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Careers of British Musicians, 1750–1850 written by Deborah Rohr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the social context of music must consider the day-to-day experiences of its practitioners; their economic, social, professional and artistic goals; and the material and cultural conditions under which these goals were pursued. This book traces the daily working life and aspirations of British musicians during the sweeping social and economic transformation of Britain from 1750 to 1850. It features working musicians of all types and at all levels - organists, singers, instrumentalists, teachers, composers and entrepreneurs - and explores their educational background, their conditions of employment, their wages, the systems of patronage that supported them, and their individual perceptions. Deborah Rohr focuses not only on social and economic pressures but also on a range of negative cultural beliefs faced by the musicians. Also considered are the implications of such conditions for their social and professional status, and for their musical aspirations.
Author : John Carnelley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270640
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book George Smart and Nineteenth-century London Concert Life written by John Carnelley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full length study of Sir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867), musical animateur and early champion of the music of Beethoven
Author : Pippa Drummond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317018761
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 written by Pippa Drummond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.
Author : Theodore Fenner
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319121
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Opera in London written by Theodore Fenner and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Fenner’s Opera in London offers a vivid portrait of the operatic and cultural life of a London under the influence of Romanticism as perceived by the English press and the public who viewed the performances. In part 1, Fenner discusses the rise of the periodical press in early nineteenth-century London and the critics of these publications who reviewed opera performances, such as Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. Fenner lists in the appendixes for part 1 the leading periodicals—including the Althenaeum, Examiner, and Spectator,— the critics, and reviews by leading critics. Fenner, in part 2, examines the productions of Italian opera in London at the King’s Theatre, including the problems in theatre management and financing; the varied nature of the audience; the operas and performances— those that were popular and those that failed in the words of the critics and the responses of the audience; the singers; and themes and attitudes of the period as expressed by the critics. In part 3, Fenner explores the same topics for the English operas presented at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and other playhouses. Parts 2 and 3 also contain extensive appendixes listing seasonal and annual performances and reviews, productions by composers and by librettists, comic and serious productions, operas by known playwrights, and minor singers. Forty-eight illustrations of singers, critics, performances, composers, and theatres add to the richness of this study.
Author : John Goulden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317096916
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Michael Costa: England's First Conductor written by John Goulden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century, one that has received little attention is how musical performances were managed and directed. Yet this was arguably the most radical change of all: from a loose control shared between the violin-leader, musical director and maestro al cembalo to a system of tight and unified control under a professional conductor-manager. This process brought with it not only baton conducting in its modern form, but also higher standards of training and discipline, a new orchestral lay-out and a more focused rehearsal regime. The resulting rise in standards of performance was arguably the greatest achievement of English music in the otherwise rather barren mid-Victorian period. The key figure in this process was Michael Costa, who built for himself unprecedented contractual powers and used his awesome personal authority to impose reform on the three main institutions of mid-Victorian music: the opera houses, the Philharmonic and the Sacred Harmonic Society. He was a central figure in the battles between the two rival opera houses, between the Philharmonic and the New Philharmonic, and between the venerable Ancient Concerts and the mass festival events of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Costa’s uniquely powerful position in the operatic, symphonic and choral world and the rapidity with which he was forgotten after his death provide a fascinating insight into the politics and changing aesthetics of the Victorian musical world.
Author : Vera Brodsky Lawrence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226470092
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Strong on Music written by Vera Brodsky Lawrence and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."—Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."—Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly
Author : Cecil Forsyth
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Music and Nationalism written by Cecil Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Temperley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270780
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Musicians of Bath and Beyond written by Nicholas Temperley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index of Edward Loder's compositions -- General Index
Author : Robert Terrell Bledsoe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042984395X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Henry Fothergill Chorley written by Robert Terrell Bledsoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this book focuses on the once celebrated but now neglected musical journalism of Henry Forthergill Chorley. For nearly forty years he effectively used his acerbic pen and idiosyncratic critical judgments to celebrate the works of Rossini, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Sullivan, and to scorn those of Schumann , Verdi and Wagner. This book also discusses his friendships with literary figures such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Felicia Hemans, as well as his ongoing efforts to establish himself as a novelist as well as a journalist.
Author : Alexandra Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190912685
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Opera in the Jazz Age written by Alexandra Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz, the Charleston, nightclubs, cocktails, cinema, and musical theatre: 1920s British nightlife was vibrant and exhilarating. But where did opera fit into this fashionable new entertainment world? Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain explores the interaction between opera and popular culture at a key historical moment when there was a growing imperative to categorize art forms as "highbrow," "middlebrow," or "lowbrow." Literary studies of the so-called "battle of the brows" have been numerous, but this is the first book to consider the place of opera in interwar debates about high and low culture. This study by Alexandra Wilson argues that opera was extremely difficult to pigeonhole: although some contemporary commentators believed it to be too highbrow, others thought it not highbrow enough. Opera in the Jazz Age paints a lively and engaging picture of 1920s operatic culture, and introduces a charismatic cast of early twentieth-century critics, conductors, and celebrity singers. Opera was performed during this period to socially mixed audiences in a variety of spaces beyond the conventional opera house: music halls, cinemas, cafés and schools. Performance and production standards were not always high - often quite the reverse - but opera-going was evidently great fun. Office boys whistled operatic tunes they had heard on the gramophone and there was a genuine sense that opera was for everyone. In this provocative and timely study, Wilson considers how the opera debate of the 1920s continues to shape the ways in which we discuss the art form, and draws connections between the battle of the brows and present-day discussions about elitism. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics of twentieth-century Britain and is essential reading for anybody interested in the history of opera, the battle of the brows, or simply the perennially fascinating decade that was the 1920s.
Author : George Grove
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 672 pages
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