Europe, empire, and spectacle in nineteenth-century British music /

Other Authors: Cowgill, Rachel., Rushton, Julian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ;: Ashgate, c2006.
Series:Music in 19th-century Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • Europe : continental connections
  • 'Hence, base intruder, hence' : rejection and assimilation in the early English reception of Mozart's Requiem / Rachel Cowgill
  • William Sterndale Bennett and the Bach revival in nineteenth-century England / Isabel Parrott
  • 'Le roi est mort, vive le roi' : languages and leadership in Niecks's Liszt obituary / Anne WideÌ- Promotion through performance : Liszt's symphonic poems in the London concerts of Walter Bache / Michael Allis
  • Henry Hugo Pierson and Shakespearean tragedy / Julian Rushton
  • 'The Italians are coming' : opera in mid-Victorian Dublin / Paul Rodmell
  • Empire : Britain, Ireland, and beyond
  • Sir Frederick Bridge and the musical furtherance of the 1902 Imperial project / David Wright
  • Attwood's St. David's Day : music, Wales, and war in 1800 / Meirion Hughes
  • Hamish MacCunn : a Scottish national composer? / Jennifer Oates
  • For the sake of the union : the nation in Stanford's Fourth Irish rhapsody / Christopher Scheer
  • 'From ocean to ocean ... ' : how Harriss and Mackenzie toured British music across Canada in 1903 / Duncan Barker
  • From 'incomprehensibility' to 'meaning' : transcription and representation of non-Western music in nineteenth-century British musicology and ethnomusicology / Bennett Zon
  • Spectacle : theatre, opera, and internationalism
  • 'Behind thy veil close-drawn' : Elgar, The crown of India, and the feminine 'other' / Corissa Gould
  • Empire and 'Orient' in opera Libretti set by Sir Henry Bishop and Edward Solomon / Claire Walsh
  • Acting with music : Henry Irving's use of the musical score in his production of The bells / Stephen Cockett
  • Handel's Acis and Galatea : a Victorian view / Roberta Montemorra Marvin
  • Blackface minstrels, black minstrels, and their reception in England / Derek B. Scott.