The English Musical Renaissance 1860 1940

Author : Meirion Hughes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058301
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Musical Renaissance, 1840-1940 written by Meirion Hughes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial study isolates and identifies the intellectual, social, and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early-20th century. The authors deconstruct the established meanings of music in this period, arguing that music was not just for the elite, but it had come to represent a stronghold of national values, reflecting the reassuring "Englishness" of middle-class life as well.

Author : Meirion Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351544845
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music written by Meirion Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian England has been an area of scholarly neglect. This state of affairs is all the more surprising given that the quantity of such criticism in the Victorian and Edwardian press was vast, much of it displaying a richness and diversity of critical perspectives. Through the study of music criticism from several key newspapers and journals (specifically The Times, Daily Telegraph, Athenaeum and The Musical Times), this book examines the reception history of new English music in the period surveyed and assesses its cultural, social and political, importance. Music critics projected and promoted English composers to create a national music of which England could be proud. J A Fuller Maitland, critic on The Times, described music journalists as 'watchmen on the walls of music', and Meirion Hughes extends this metaphor to explore their crucial role in building and safeguarding what came to be known as the English Musical Renaissance. Part One of the book looks at the critics in the context of the publications for which they worked, while Part Two focuses on the relationship between the watchmen-critics and three composers: Arthur Sullivan, Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar. Hughes argues that the English Musical Renaissance was ultimately a success thanks largely to the work of the critics. In so doing, he provides a major re-evaluation of the impact of journalism on British music history.

Author : Peter J. Pirie
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312254353
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Musical Renaissance written by Peter J. Pirie and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351573012
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 written by Matthew Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization.

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557599
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s written by Bennett Zon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to its rightful place in histories of Orientalism. 'Interpreting Concert Music' looks at one of the principal forms in which Orientalism could be brought to an eager and largely receptive - yet sometimes resistant - mass market. 'Words and Music' investigates the confluence of musical and Orientalist themes in different genres of writing, including criticism, fiction and travel writing. Finally, 'The Orientalist Stage' discusses crucial sites of Orientalist representation - music theatre and opera - as well as tracing similar phenomena in twentieth-century Hindi cinema. These final chapters examine the rendering of the East as 'unachievable and unrecognizable' for the consuming gaze of the western spectator.

Author : Tim Rayborn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624941
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New English Music written by Tim Rayborn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and the roots of English heritage. A new interest in English folk song and dance inspired art music, which many believed was seeing a renaissance after a period of stagnation since the 18th century. This book focuses on the lives of seven composers--Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Ernest Moeran, George Butterworth, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), Gerald Finzi and Percy Grainger--whose work was influenced by folk songs and early music. Each chapter provides an historical background and tells the fascinating story of a musical life.

Author : P. Weliver
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598765
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 written by P. Weliver and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.

Author : Christina Bashford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198167303
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and British Culture, 1785-1914 written by Christina Bashford and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351573004
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "British Music and Modernism, 1895?960 " written by Matthew Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization.

Author : David Beard
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415316927
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musicology written by David Beard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms including: - aesthetics - canon - culture - deconstruction - ethnicity - identity - subjectivity - value - work Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, this is an essential resource for all students of music.