Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) write by Fiona M. Palmer. This book was released on 1997-11-13. Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dragonetti devoted his life to the double bass. His career in England (1794-1846) is one of the most remarkable success stories in the annals of musical history. His unprecedented virtuosity elevated the double bass to a new status. In combination with his charismatic personality his musical talent dominated the English cultural world for more than fifty years. As performer, composer, collector, and friend, he exposed the unforeseen potential of the double bass. His formidable talent as a musician and businessman provides an unusual insight into nineteenth-century entrepreneurship. This first substantial biography and assessment of Dragonetti's career allows us to understand his importance in the history of music in general and of double-bass performance in particular.
Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846)
Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) write by Fiona M. Palmer. This book was released on 1993. Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846)
Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) write by Fiona M. Palmer. This book was released on 1993. Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914
The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 write by Pippa Drummond. This book was released on 2016-02-24. The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.
The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel
The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel write by Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.
