"This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France came to be considered "canonic": that is, admirable and worthy of being tak…
This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France came to be considered "canonic": that is, admirable and worthy of being take…
The Domestic versus the Foreign in Eighteenth-century Paris and London -- Elements of canon Formation at the Concert Spirituel / Beverly Wilcox -- To Praise or to criticize? The evolution of music criticism in eighteenth-century France -- Haydn in the press during the 1780s : Ho…
"This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France came to be considered "canonic": that is, admirable and worthy of being tak…
"This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France came to be considered "canonic": that is, admirable and worthy of being tak…
by Weber, William, Wollenberg, Susan, Johnston, Roy, Borsay, Peter, Johnstone, H. Diack, Burrows, Donald, McVeigh, Simon, Jones, Peter Ward, Burchell, Jennifer, Chevill, Elizabeth, McFarlane, Meredith, McGuinness, Rosamond, Robins, Brian, Salwey, Nicholas, Southey, Roz
"First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major the…
"First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major the…
The idea that the middle class arose during the 1880s is now widely accepted amongst social historians but the notion that such a social group dominated music appreciation is probably untrue. It would be wiser to speak in terms of perception of leadership rather than one social …
