Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley
- Author: Zon, Bennett
In short, this volume offers a fitting tribute to the work of Nicholas Temperley and a testimony to what this work served to generate... It is rewarding to see that a clearer picture of history... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction, Bennett Zon
- Part I Musical Cultures: Hidden agendas and the creation of community: the violin press in the late 19th century, Christina Bashford
- Joining up the dots: cross-channel models in the shaping of London orchestral culture, 1895-1914, Leanne Langley
- Charles Garland Verrinder and music at the West London Synagogue, 1859-1904, Susan Wollenberg
- Music, morality, and rational amusement at the Victorian middle-class soiree, Derek B. Scott. Part II Societies: Trial by dining club: the instrumental music of Haydn, Clementi and Mozart at London's Anacreontic Society, Simon McVeigh
- Performance in private: 'the Working Men's Society' and the promotion of progressive repertoire in 19th-century Britain, Michael Allis
- American songs, pastoral nationalism, and the English Temperance cantata, Charles Edward McGuire. Part III National Music: The British vocal album and the struggle for national music, Peter Horton
- Musicking Caractacus, Julian Rushton. Part IV Methods: The conductor at the organ, or how choral and orchestral music was directed in Georgian England, Peter Holman
- Willian Cole's view of modern psalmody, Sally Drage
- Samuel Wesley and the development of organ pedals in England, Philip Olleson
- Recapitulation and the musical education of Victorian children: The Child's Pianoforte Book (1882) by H. Keatley Moore, Bennett Zon
- Nicholas Temperley publications
- Index.