ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1999, this volume of essays arises from the first biennial Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference, held at the University of hull in July 1997. Like the conference, this book seeks to expand and reassess our current knowledge of musical life in Britain during the nineteenth century, as well as to challenge the preconceptions of earlier attitudes and scholarship.
This volume covers a cohesive range of subjects and materials intended not only as a revision of past views and scholarship, but also as a tool for further research. It provides a vigorous reconsideration of the musical activity of the period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|20 pages
Introduction
part Two|32 pages
Historiography
part Three|66 pages
Instruments and Performing Ensembles
chapter Chapter Four|33 pages
Who bought Concertinas in the Winter of 1851? A Glimpse at the Sales Accounts of Wheatstone and Co. 1
chapter Chapter Five|17 pages
Violin Pedagogy in England during the first half of the Nineteenth Century, or The Incompleat Tutor for the Violin
part Four|60 pages
The Wesley Family
chapter Chapter Eight|45 pages
The Unknown Wesley: The Early Instrumental and Secular Vocal Music of Samuel Sebastian Wesley
part Five|46 pages
Local Music History
part Six|42 pages
Repertoire, Genre and Concert Life
chapter Chapter Twelve|15 pages
‘Personifying the Saviour?’: English Oratorio and the Representation of the Words of Christ
chapter Chapter Thirteen|25 pages
The Benefit Concert in Nineteenth-Century London: From ‘tax on the nobility’ to ‘monstrous nuisance’
part Seven|44 pages
Analysis and Criticism