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French Music in Britain 1830-1914 / Paul Rodmell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodmell, Paul, author.
- Series:
- Music in nineteenth-century Britain
- Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Great Britain--French influences.
- Music--France--19th century.
- Music--19th century--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Music--20th century--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Paul Rodmell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on British musical culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he is the author of monographs on Charles Villiers Stanford and Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Notes
- 1 Franco-British cultural relations 1660-1830
- Anglo-French political relations 1660-1700
- Cultural transfers from France to Britain 1660-90
- Cultural transfers from France to Britain 1690-1830
- British attitudes to French music 1660-1830
- Conclusion
- 2 From Auber to Meyerbeer, 1830-62
- Franco-British political relations
- Cultural transfers from France to Britain
- The success of Auber
- Meyerbeer in London 1832-42
- French opera seasons 1845-6
- French opera
- as Italian opera
- Opéra comique: St James's Theatre, 1849-50
- Beyond West End opera: concert music and the provinces
- The singular case of Berlioz 1840-62
- 3 From Faust to Carmen, 1863-78
- Franco-British political and cultural relations 1863-78
- The ascendancy of Gounod
- 'An evil sign of the times': Offenbach and opéra bouffe
- Bizet and Carmen
- Beyond theatre: other French music in Britain 1863-78
- The deaths of Meyerbeer, Berlioz and Auber
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 Fin-de-siècle: French music in Britain 1879-1900
- Political and cultural relations 1879-1900
- Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- Saint-Saëns in Britain
- Massenet
- 'Grand opera' in the West End, 1879-1900
- After Offenbach: French operetta in the 1880s and '90s
- Concert music old and new: Berlioz, Gounod, Fauré and Chaminade
- 5 Entente Cordiale: French music in Britain 1901-14
- Franco-British political and cultural relations 1901-14
- Theatre music: opera and operetta
- Concert music
- The 'modern French school': Debussy, Ravel and beyond
- Veterans revisited: Berlioz, Saint-Saëns and Fauré
- Conclusions
- 6 Conclusions
- Appendix: Selected first performances of French works in Britain, 1830-1914
- Bibliography
- Primary sources (books only
- articles from newspapers, journals and serials are referenced in the main text)
- Secondary Literature
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 29, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rodmell, Paul J. French Music in Britain 1830-1914.
- ISBN:
- 9781000281521
- 1000281523
- 9780429268861
- 0429268866
- 9781000281484
- 1000281485
- 9781000281507
- 1000281507
- Publisher Number:
- 40030337042
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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