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  • The Guitar in Victorian England

    A Social and Musical History

    by Christopher Page ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    In 1893 Clara Lindow sang the ballad Dreamtide to her own guitar accompaniment in the Cumbrian hamlet of Lowick. A writer for the local newspaper not only admired her 'marked skill and ability' but also considered the concert to be a sign of 'the onward march of light and learning in our time'. Amateurs like Miss Lindow were at the heart of a Victorian revival of guitar playing, especially for ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • The Guitar in Tudor England

    A Social and Musical History

    by Christopher Page ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    Few now remember that the guitar was popular in England during the age of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and yet it was played everywhere from the royal court to the common tavern. This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Guitar in Stuart England

    A Social and Musical History

    by Christopher Page ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order to create a comprehensive picture of the guitar from its early appearances in Jacobean records, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    Burne-Jones’ oeuvre can be understood as an attempt to create in paint a world of perfect beauty, as far removed from the Birmingham of his youth as possible. At that time Birmingham was a byword for the dire effects of unregulated capitalism – a booming, industrial conglomeration of unimaginable ugliness and squalor. The two great French symbolist painters, Gustave Moreau and Pierre Puvis de ... Read more

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  • The Lives of George Frideric Handel

    by David Hunter ...
    To evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses

    From Mozart to Bellini

    by Christina Fuhrmann ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in drastically altered form. Such changes have been denigrated as 'mutilations'. The operas were translated into English, fitted with spoken dialogue, divested of much of their music, augmented with interpolations and frequently ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of English Music

    ca. 1400-1958

    by Charles Edward McGuire, Steven E. Plank ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    This reference seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan Williams in the mid-20th century. Some of the truly great "English" composers figuring in this ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800

    Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone

    by Peter Lynan, Julian Rushton, Olive Baldwin, Donald Burrows, John Caldwell, Dr Kelly Domoney ...
    British music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called 'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once considered barren. This view has been overturned in recent years through a better-informed historical perspective, able to recognise that all kinds of British musical institutions continued to flourish, and not only in London. The publication, performance and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    Edited by Susan Wollenberg ...
    In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain. This interest has now expanded beyond the consideration of composers and their music to include the performing institutions of the period and their relationship to the wider social scene. The collection of essays presented here offers a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Every Valley

    The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

    by Charles King ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah."A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World"A book of power and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Handel

    The Man & His Music

    by Jonathan Keates ...
    Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London where he made his ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy.While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as ... Read more

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