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.
Alejandro Vera
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- October 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190940218
- eISBN:
- 9780190940249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190940218.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter studies the musical life of private houses in the city. Informed by historical documents (namely wills, dowries, inventories, and customs records), music scores, and treatises from the ...
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This chapter studies the musical life of private houses in the city. Informed by historical documents (namely wills, dowries, inventories, and customs records), music scores, and treatises from the colonial period, it begins by documenting the instruments and books of music that prevailed in the domestic space and its context. Subsequently, it supplies new information about the music trade among individuals from Cádiz, Lima, and Santiago, showing how the elite took advantage of their commercial networks to foster their musical practice. It also revises the role performed by women and the familiar entourage in private musical life, as well as the prevailing genres and styles, highlighting the different ways of performing dances and songs. One of the chapter’s conclusions, indeed, is that the performance—more than the instruments and genres in themselves—acquired increasing importance in social terms during the 18th century, as the enlightened ideas gained more influence in the city.Less
This chapter studies the musical life of private houses in the city. Informed by historical documents (namely wills, dowries, inventories, and customs records), music scores, and treatises from the colonial period, it begins by documenting the instruments and books of music that prevailed in the domestic space and its context. Subsequently, it supplies new information about the music trade among individuals from Cádiz, Lima, and Santiago, showing how the elite took advantage of their commercial networks to foster their musical practice. It also revises the role performed by women and the familiar entourage in private musical life, as well as the prevailing genres and styles, highlighting the different ways of performing dances and songs. One of the chapter’s conclusions, indeed, is that the performance—more than the instruments and genres in themselves—acquired increasing importance in social terms during the 18th century, as the enlightened ideas gained more influence in the city.
Alejandro Vera
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- October 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190940218
- eISBN:
- 9780190940249
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190940218.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book provides a fresh, comprehensive view of the musical life and its cultural context in Santiago, Chile, from its foundation in 1541 to the end of the colonial period, roughly in 1810. ...
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This book provides a fresh, comprehensive view of the musical life and its cultural context in Santiago, Chile, from its foundation in 1541 to the end of the colonial period, roughly in 1810. Combining the study of archival documents, secondary sources, and music scores, it deals with different aspects of musical life in the cathedral (Chapter 1), convents and monasteries (Chapter 2), private houses (Chapter 3), and public spaces (Chapter 4), considering, as well, the life and function of musicians as crucial agents in the music field (Chapter 5). Despite its focus on a particular city of Latin America, it raises this issue from a broad perspective that explores its links with other urban centers (especially Lima), within the globalizing framework of the colonial system. The idea of music as a “sweet penance,” belonging to a nun harpist in a convent of Santiago at the end of the eighteenth century, gives rise to the consideration of duality as an essential trait of the period and its music.Less
This book provides a fresh, comprehensive view of the musical life and its cultural context in Santiago, Chile, from its foundation in 1541 to the end of the colonial period, roughly in 1810. Combining the study of archival documents, secondary sources, and music scores, it deals with different aspects of musical life in the cathedral (Chapter 1), convents and monasteries (Chapter 2), private houses (Chapter 3), and public spaces (Chapter 4), considering, as well, the life and function of musicians as crucial agents in the music field (Chapter 5). Despite its focus on a particular city of Latin America, it raises this issue from a broad perspective that explores its links with other urban centers (especially Lima), within the globalizing framework of the colonial system. The idea of music as a “sweet penance,” belonging to a nun harpist in a convent of Santiago at the end of the eighteenth century, gives rise to the consideration of duality as an essential trait of the period and its music.
Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199898312
- eISBN:
- 9780199345526
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199898312.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The chapter deals with the instruments, instrumentations and repertoires of military bands before the mid-nineteenth century. It also deals with the issues relating to the invention of new musical ...
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The chapter deals with the instruments, instrumentations and repertoires of military bands before the mid-nineteenth century. It also deals with the issues relating to the invention of new musical instruments, their retail and distribution.Less
The chapter deals with the instruments, instrumentations and repertoires of military bands before the mid-nineteenth century. It also deals with the issues relating to the invention of new musical instruments, their retail and distribution.
Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199898312
- eISBN:
- 9780199345526
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199898312.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The chapter explains how an aristocratic officer class, as the commanding officers of militia regiments, established a network of musical units throughout Britain and Ireland. It focuses on the role ...
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The chapter explains how an aristocratic officer class, as the commanding officers of militia regiments, established a network of musical units throughout Britain and Ireland. It focuses on the role of military bands in social and musical life outside London, including the influence of military music on domestic piano music. It deals with the social and martial functions in which these musicians were engaged, and in so doing, touches on instrumentation, repertoire, recruitment and training.Less
The chapter explains how an aristocratic officer class, as the commanding officers of militia regiments, established a network of musical units throughout Britain and Ireland. It focuses on the role of military bands in social and musical life outside London, including the influence of military music on domestic piano music. It deals with the social and martial functions in which these musicians were engaged, and in so doing, touches on instrumentation, repertoire, recruitment and training.
