Europe, empire, and spectacle in nineteenth-century British music / edited by Rachel Cowgill and Julian Rushton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cowgill, Rachel.

Rushton, Julian.

Series:

Music in nineteenth-century Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

History.

Music--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Incidental music.

Physical Description:

xv, 299 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Other Title:

Title on compact disc: Incidental music to Henry Irving's The bells.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]

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 Widén

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The compact disc contains incidental music by Etienne Singla for the Henry Irving production of the play The bells, by Leopold Lewis.

Contains:

Singla, Etienne. Bells.

ISBN:

0754652084

OCLC:

61445779