Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rachel Cowgill and Peter Holman.
• Other Names: Cowgill, Rachel; Holman, Peter, 1946-
• Contents: "A pretty knot of musical friends" : the Ferrar brothers and a Stamford music club in the 1690s / Bryan White -- Music in the Minster Close : Edward Finch, Valentine Nalson and William Knight in early eighteenth-century York / David Griffiths -- A little light on Lorenzo Bocchi : an Italian in Edinburgh and Dublin / Peter Holman -- Joah Bates, William Herschel, and the Messiah Club : musical amateurs, artisans, and professionals in 1760s Halifax / Rachel Cowgill -- The role of gentlemen amateurs in subscription concerts in north-east England during the eighteenth century / Roz Southey -- The string quartet in eighteenth-century provincial concert life / Meredith McFarlane -- John Baptist Malchair of Oxford and his collection of national music / Susan Wollenberg -- Music of rural byway and rotten borough : a study of musical life in North Wiltshire, c. 1750-1830 / Christopher Kent -- Mr White, of Leeds / Robert Demaine -- The Larks of Dean : amateur musicians in the north of England / Sally Drage -- Finding themselves : musical revolutions in nineteenth-century Staffordshire / Sarah E. Taylor -- Lost luggage : Giovanni Puzzi and the management of Giovanni Rubini's farewell tour in 1842 / E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer -- Outside the cathedral : Samuel Sebastian Wesley, local music-making, and the provincial organist in mid-nineteenth-century England / Peter Horton -- Music for St Cuthbert, patron saint of the faithful north : the musical repertory of St Cuthbert's Catholic Church, Durham, 1827-1910 / Thomas Muir -- That monstrosity of bricks and mortar : the town hall as music venue in nineteenth-century Stalybridge / Rachel Milestone -- The provincial musical festival in Britain in the nineteenth century : a case study of Bridlington / Catherine Dale -- Educating England : networks of programme-note provision in the nineteenth century -- Christina Bashford.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (428 pages)
• Subjects: 780.941; Music -- Societies, etc -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Concerts -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Music -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351557313; 1351557319
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.