"Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British by Julian Rushton

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By Julian Rushton

This quantity illuminates musical connections among Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized power of musical theatre and other forms of spectacle in Britain itself, and likewise the flourishing live performance lifetime of the interval, exhibits a way of defining culture and id inside nineteenth-century British musical tradition. the target of the amount has been so as to add considerably to the starting to be literature on those themes. It merits not just from new archival learn, but in addition from clean musicological ways and interdisciplinary tools that realize the vital position of track inside a much broader tradition, together with spiritual, political and social lifestyles. The essays are by means of students from the us, Britain, and Europe, protecting quite a lot of adventure. subject matters variety from the reception of Bach, Mozart, and Liszt in England, a musical reaction to Shakespeare, Italian opera in Dublin, exoticism, gender, black musical identities, British musicians in Canada, and makes use of of tune in numerous theatrical genres and kingdom rite, and in articulating the politics of the Union and Empire.

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