Music and British Culture, 1785-1914
Title | Music and British Culture, 1785-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Bashford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198167303 |
This collection of sixteen new essays, all commissioned from cultural and musical historians, was inspired by the themes and approaches of Professor Cyril Ehrlich's pathbreaking work on British social history in music. This volume discusses issues such as the music marketplace, piano culture, musicians' work patterns, music institutions, concert history, and national and urban identities - all with a clear focus on art music traditions. The cultural importance of serious music, from Belfast to Calcutta, has long been assumed for the period but rarely demonstrated. Here the issue is interwoven with the social and economic realities confronting music and musicians in Britain across the 19th century.
The Annotated General Code of the State of Ohio of 1910
Title | The Annotated General Code of the State of Ohio of 1910 PDF eBook |
Author | Ohio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1164 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century
Title | British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Seddon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1317171349 |
This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth century. Laura Seddon argues that the Cobbett competitions, instigated by Walter Willson Cobbett in 1905, and the formation of the Society of Women Musicians in 1911 contributed to the explosion of instrumental music written by women in this period and highlighted women's place in British musical society in the years leading up to and during the First World War. Seddon investigates the relationship between Cobbett, the Society of Women Musicians and women composers themselves. The book’s six case studies - of Adela Maddison (1866-1929), Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), Morfydd Owen (1891-1918), Ethel Barns (1880-1948), Alice Verne-Bredt (1868-1958) and Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962) - offer valuable insight into the women’s musical education and compositional careers. Seddon’s discussion of their chamber works for differing instrumental combinations includes an exploration of formal procedures, an issue much discussed by contemporary sources. The individual composers' reactions to the debate instigated by the Society of Women Musicians, on the future of women's music, is considered in relation to their lives, careers and the chamber music itself. As the composers in this study were not a cohesive group, creatively or ideologically, the book draws on primary sources, as well as the writings of contemporary commentators, to assess the legacy of the chamber works produced.
The Canada Gazette
Title | The Canada Gazette PDF eBook |
Author | Canada |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1256 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Nederlandsche Staatscourant. Bijvoegsel [No.1] Versameling Van Verslagen en Rapporten Behoorende Bij de Nederlandsche Staatscourant
Title | Nederlandsche Staatscourant. Bijvoegsel [No.1] Versameling Van Verslagen en Rapporten Behoorende Bij de Nederlandsche Staatscourant PDF eBook |
Author | Netherlands |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2114 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
"Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919?969 "
Title | "Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919?969 " PDF eBook |
Author | Lorna Gibson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351574051 |
Music in the Women's Institute has become stereotyped by the ritualistic singing of Jerusalem at monthly meetings. Indeed, Jerusalem has had an important role within the organization, and provides a valuable means within which to assess the organization's relationship with women's suffrage and the importance of rurality in the Women's Institute's identity. However, this book looks beyond Jerusalem by examining the full range of music making within the organization and locates its significance within a wider historical-cultural context. The Institute's promotion of conducting - a regular part of its musical activity since the 1930s - is discussed within the context of embodying overtly feminist sentiments. Lorna Gibson concludes that a redefinition of the term 'feminism' is needed and the concept of 'gendered spheres' of conducting provides a useful means of understanding the Institute's policy. The organization's promotion of folk song is also examined and reveals the Institute's contribution to the Folk Revival, as well as providing a valuable context within which to understand the National Federation's first music commission, Ralph Vaughan Williams's Folk Songs of the Four Seasons (1950). This work, and the Institute's second commission, Malcolm Williamson's The Brilliant and the Dark (1969), are examined with the context of the organization's music policy. In addition to discussing the background to the works, issues of critical reception are addressed. The book concludes with an Epilogue about the National Society Choir (later known as the Avalon Singers), which tested the organization's commitment to amateur music making. The book is the result of meticulous work undertaken in the archives of the National Federation, the BBC Written Archives Centre, the V&A archives, the Britten-Pears Library, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Library, the Women's Library and the Newspaper Library.
Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Title | Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Wollenberg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351571206 |
In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain. This interest has now expanded beyond the consideration of composers and their music to include the performing institutions of the period and their relationship to the wider social scene. The collection of essays presented here offers a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes greatly to the wider understanding of social and cultural life in the eighteenth century. Music was not merely a pastime but was irrevocably linked with its social, political and literary contexts. The perspectives of performers, organisers, patrons, audiences, publishers, copyists and consumers are considered here in relation to the concert experience. All of the essays taken together construct an understanding of musical communities and the origins of the modern concert system. This is achieved by focusing on the development of music societies; the promotion of musical events; the mobility and advancement of musicians; systems of patronage; the social status of musicians; the repertoire performed and published; the role of women pianists and the 'topography' of concerts. In this way, the book will not only appeal to music specialists, but also to social and cultural historians.