This valuable book considers the reception of the composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn in nineteenth-century England, and his influence on English musical culture. Despite the composer's immense popularity in the nation during his lifetime and in the decades following his death, this is the first book to deal exclusively with the subject of Mendelssohn in England. Mendelssohn's highly successful ten trips to Britain, between 1829 and 1847, are documented and discussed in detail, as are his relationships with English musicians and a variety of prominent figures. An...
This valuable book considers the reception of the composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn in nineteenth-century England, and his i...
Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential. The author uses this theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering in order to analyse primary source...
Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This book explores iss...
This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption and the...
This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emer...
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? That is the question which this volume of essays explores in order to achieve a better understanding of the place of music and its significance in 19th-century British culture.
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? That is the question which this volume of essays explores in order to ac...
Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural worlds, of which music making was an important part. The Girl's Own Paper, first published in 1880, stands out because of its rich musical content. Keeping practical usefulness as a research tool and as a guide to further reading in mind, Judith Barger has catalogued the musical content found in the weekly and later monthly issues during the magazine's first thirty years, in music scores, instalments of serialized fiction about...
Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and c...
The figure of the fallen woman was at the very forefront of the Victorian social and literary conscience. And the theme permeates the visual arts and music as well. Julia Grella O'Connell draws upon music iconography, patristic theology, and the social history of female fallenness in an investigation of historical perceptions of the states of sin and grace, the possibility of flux between them, and the manner in which these concepts were represented in Victorian art and literature, with particular reference to the role played in these representations by music. O'Connell seeks to locate what...
The figure of the fallen woman was at the very forefront of the Victorian social and literary conscience. And the theme permeates the visual arts and ...
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) was Victorian Britain's most celebrated and popular composer, whose music still to this day reaches a wider audience than any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan's reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the British musicological establishment, while his serious works have until recently remained virtually unknown. The time is thus long overdue for serious scholarly reengagement with Sullivan. Building on over a decade of research, Benedict Taylor offers a new appraisal of the music of this most famous...
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) was Victorian Britain's most celebrated and popular composer, whose music still to this day reaches a wider audience than ...
By the mid-nineteenth century music publishing was no longer the provenance of shopkeepers, instrument makers or individual scholars, but a business enterprise undertaken by a new breed of Victorian entrepreneur. Two such were Vincent Novello and his son Alfred, whose music publishing house enjoyed significant growth between 1829 and 1866. Victoria Cooper builds up a picture of Novello during this period and the socio-economic and cultural climate that influenced the company's business decisions. Looking in detail at some of the editions Novello published, she analyzes the editing style of...
By the mid-nineteenth century music publishing was no longer the provenance of shopkeepers, instrument makers or individual scholars, but a business e...
Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on previously unused source materials such as letters, legal documents and playbills, this biography of Balfe and in-depth study of his English operas overturns many of the previously accepted 'facts' of the composer's lifestyle. Using London as his base, Dublin-born Balfe spent long periods in Paris...
Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. During his lifetime ...
