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"Food for Apollo" : cultivated music in antebellum Philadelphia / Dorothy T. Potter.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Ph ML 200.8 .P52 P68 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potter, Dorothy Bundy Turner.
- Series:
- Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century--History and criticism.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2011.
- Contents:
- Philadelphia's musical beginnings, 1700-1786
- From city tavern to musical fund society hall : Philadelphia's music in transition, 1786-1831
- Cultivated music adapts and thrives, 1831-1861
- Music for the masses : publishers and piano makers, 1786-1861
- Historians, critics, and romantics : Mozart in literature, 1803-1861.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780982131398
- 0982131399
- 9781611460025
- 1611460026
- 9781611460032
- 1611460034
- OCLC:
- 605018974
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