Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914 / edited by Rachel Cowgill and Peter Holman.
Published / Created:
Aldershot, England ; Ashgate, c2007.Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 403 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007011561.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
'A pretty knot of musical friends' : the Ferrar brothers and a Stamford music club in the 1690s / Bryan White -- Music in the Minster Close : Edward Finch, Valentine Nalson, and William Knight in early eighteenth-century York / David Griffiths -- A little light on Lorenzo Bocchi : an Italian in Edinburgh and Dublin / Peter Holman -- Disputing choruses in 1760s Halifax : Joah Bates, William Herschel, and the Messiah Club / Rachel Cowgill -- The role of gentlemen amateurs in subscription concerts in north-east England during the eighteenth century / Roz Southey -- The string quartet in eighteenth-century provincial concert life / Meredith McFarlane -- John Baptist Malchair of Oxford and his collection of 'national music' / Susan Wollenberg -- Music of rural byway and rotten borough : a study of musical life in mid-Wiltshire, c. 1750-1830 / Christopher Kent -- Mr White, of Leeds / Robert Demaine -- The Larks of Dean : amateur musicians in northern England / Sally Drage -- Finding themselves : musical revolutions in nineteenth-century Staffordshire / Sarah E. Taylor -- Lost luggage : Giovanni Puzzi and the management of Giovanni Rubini's farewell tour in 1842 / E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer -- Outside the cathedral : Samuel Sebastian Wesley, local music-making, and the provincial organist in mid-nineteenth-century England / Peter Horton -- Music for St Cuthbert, 'patron saint of the faithful north' : the musical repertory of St Cuthbert's Catholic Church, Durham, 1827-1910 / Thomas Muir -- That monstrosity of bricks and mortar : the town hall as a music venue in nineteenth-century Stalybridge / Rachel Milestone -- The provincial musical festival in Britain in nineteenth century England : a case study of Bridlington / Catherine Dale -- Educating England : networks of programme-note provision in the nineteenth century -- Christina Bashford.
Subject Terms:
Music -- Societies, etc. | Concerts -- Great Britain -- History.