Mark Everist
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195389173
- eISBN:
- 9780199979202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389173.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western, Opera
For the world of Mozart scholarship, the composer's so-called “Twelfth Mass” is a closed case. Despite its great popularity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so the argument goes, the work ...
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For the world of Mozart scholarship, the composer's so-called “Twelfth Mass” is a closed case. Despite its great popularity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so the argument goes, the work is clearly not by Mozart, but probably by Wenzel Müller; it is therefore consigned to K. Anh. 232 / C1.04. But for the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, Mozart's “Twelfth Mass” was – together with the Requiem – his most popular sacred work, and for the composer's biographer Edward Holmes it could rival Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte in nineteenth-century musical affections. The “Twelfth Mass” and Holmes’ commentary together have been important factors in Mozart reception throughout the Anglophone world, from the early nineteenth century to the present.Less
For the world of Mozart scholarship, the composer's so-called “Twelfth Mass” is a closed case. Despite its great popularity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so the argument goes, the work is clearly not by Mozart, but probably by Wenzel Müller; it is therefore consigned to K. Anh. 232 / C1.04. But for the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, Mozart's “Twelfth Mass” was – together with the Requiem – his most popular sacred work, and for the composer's biographer Edward Holmes it could rival Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte in nineteenth-century musical affections. The “Twelfth Mass” and Holmes’ commentary together have been important factors in Mozart reception throughout the Anglophone world, from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Mark Roodhouse
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199588459
- eISBN:
- 9780191747564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588459.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Cultural History
The reader is introduced to the problem of explaining the behaviour of ‘unethical consumers’ and others who evaded the rationing and price control through the case of the composer, singer, and actor ...
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The reader is introduced to the problem of explaining the behaviour of ‘unethical consumers’ and others who evaded the rationing and price control through the case of the composer, singer, and actor Ivor Novello, before discussing the changing purposes of economic control and describing the different types of rationing and price control schemes. The unavoidable gaps and loopholes in these schemes that created opportunities for black market dealing are also highlighted. The final section examines the way in which officials calculated a fair share, a fair price, and a fair profit, and how official understanding of fair shares clashed with popular notions of distributive justice.Less
The reader is introduced to the problem of explaining the behaviour of ‘unethical consumers’ and others who evaded the rationing and price control through the case of the composer, singer, and actor Ivor Novello, before discussing the changing purposes of economic control and describing the different types of rationing and price control schemes. The unavoidable gaps and loopholes in these schemes that created opportunities for black market dealing are also highlighted. The final section examines the way in which officials calculated a fair share, a fair price, and a fair profit, and how official understanding of fair shares clashed with popular notions of distributive justice.
Judith Blezzard
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853235286
- eISBN:
- 9781846312717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235286.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter examines choral music and aspects of provincial music publishing in the North of England (mostly east of the Pennines) in the late nineteenth century. It shows how local publishers ...
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This chapter examines choral music and aspects of provincial music publishing in the North of England (mostly east of the Pennines) in the late nineteenth century. It shows how local publishers sustained a thriving culture of mostly amateur music-making during the period. After providing an overview of the music trade, the chapter considers growth areas in music publishing in the region during the period and looks at music publishers and their markets. It also discusses the remarkable growth of the music publishing industry in nineteenth-century London and the influence of Novello on choral music publishing in nineteenth-century England.Less
This chapter examines choral music and aspects of provincial music publishing in the North of England (mostly east of the Pennines) in the late nineteenth century. It shows how local publishers sustained a thriving culture of mostly amateur music-making during the period. After providing an overview of the music trade, the chapter considers growth areas in music publishing in the region during the period and looks at music publishers and their markets. It also discusses the remarkable growth of the music publishing industry in nineteenth-century London and the influence of Novello on choral music publishing in nineteenth-century England.
Gayle Sherwood Magee
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199915965
- eISBN:
- 9780190205348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199915965.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
In his best-received late film Gosford Park, Altman and his collaborators chose to incorporate preexisting songs written by real-life actor and singer Ivor Novello (played by Jeremy Northam). Novello ...
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In his best-received late film Gosford Park, Altman and his collaborators chose to incorporate preexisting songs written by real-life actor and singer Ivor Novello (played by Jeremy Northam). Novello and his songs fulfill several critical functions in the film. First, the songs illuminate several implicit and explicit oppositions within the film, including the divisions between upper and lower classes, as well as the blurred line between reality and film. Second, Novello’s songs provide a surfeit of narrative information crucial to the resolution of multiple storylines. Third, the structural location of the songs within the narrative suggests specific models for the work, the identification of which deepens the subtext of the film and the significance of the music. Last, the songs conspire with other elements (plot, characters, mise-en-scène) to complicate the film’s generic hybridity, which combines a traditional murder mystery with Indiewood’s reinvigorated British heritage film.Less
In his best-received late film Gosford Park, Altman and his collaborators chose to incorporate preexisting songs written by real-life actor and singer Ivor Novello (played by Jeremy Northam). Novello and his songs fulfill several critical functions in the film. First, the songs illuminate several implicit and explicit oppositions within the film, including the divisions between upper and lower classes, as well as the blurred line between reality and film. Second, Novello’s songs provide a surfeit of narrative information crucial to the resolution of multiple storylines. Third, the structural location of the songs within the narrative suggests specific models for the work, the identification of which deepens the subtext of the film and the significance of the music. Last, the songs conspire with other elements (plot, characters, mise-en-scène) to complicate the film’s generic hybridity, which combines a traditional murder mystery with Indiewood’s reinvigorated British heritage film.
