The Lost Chord Essays on Victorian Music

The Lost Chord is a pioneering effort to establish the place of music in the life and literature of Victorian Britain and to establish its value as art. In an introductory essay, Nicholas Temperley gives a detailed assessment of the current state of research in this field and examines the reasons fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Temperley, Nicholas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press 1989
1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the state of research on Victorian music / Nicholas Temperley
  • Rise of popular music education in nineteenth-century England / Bernarr Rainbow
  • Heroines at the piano : women and music in nineteenth-century fiction / Mary Burgan
  • John Ruskin and music / William J. Gatens
  • Samuel Sebastian Wesley at Leeds : a Victorian church musician reflects on his craft / Peter Horton
  • From parlor to concert hall : Arthur Somervell's song-cycle on Tennyson's Maud / Linda K. Hughes
  • Henry Fothergill Chorley and the reception of Verdi's early operas in England / Robert Bledsoe
  • Musical nationalism in English romantic opera / Nicholas Temperley.