Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round /: Household words and All the year round. (2012)
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- Title:
- Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round /: Household words and All the year round. (2012)
- Main Title:
- Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round
- Further Information:
- Note: Robert Terrell Bledsoe.
- Authors:
- Bledsoe, Robert Terrell
- Contents:
- Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations; Introduction; i Overview ; ii Amusements: Sweet and Useful ; iii Music and Theatrical Fiction ; iv Classical Music and Opera ; Chapter 1 Household Words: 1850-1859; i Dickens Conducts "The General Improvement of Our Social Condition" ; ii Music, Metaphor, Cliché ; iii Mr. Whelks and the Amusements of the People: Opera Without Music ; iv Some "Conventionalities" in Music Theatre ; v The Glorious Apollos: Hullah's Exemplary Singing Classes ; vi English Songs and Irish Ballads ; vii The Musical World According to Sala. Viii "They Order This Matter Better in France" ix Sala's Musical World in St. Petersburg ; x The Burning of Covent Garden, 1856 ; xi Technology and George Dodd's "Music Measure": Music by the Barrel ; xii Street Music and Noise ; xiii Musical Stories: Fiction with a Purpose ; xiv The Amusements of the People, Resumed ; Chapter 2 All The Year Round: 1859-1870; i Getting Started ; ii Keyboards and Comettant: Playing and Not Playing ; iii More "Conventionalities" ; iv National Songs: Theirs and Ours ; v Tribute to Hullah: The English are a Musical People. Vi Music, Noise, and Barrel Organs Again vii Country Bands and Military Bands ; viii Musical Genius and Handel ; ix Musical Genius and Blind Black Tom ; x Roman Opera: Coletti at the Apollo ; xi Music Halls I: All The Year Round Approves ; xii Music Halls II: All The Year Round Disapproves ; xiii La Traviata and Calvinism: A Change of Heart ;Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations; Introduction; i Overview ; ii Amusements: Sweet and Useful ; iii Music and Theatrical Fiction ; iv Classical Music and Opera ; Chapter 1 Household Words: 1850-1859; i Dickens Conducts "The General Improvement of Our Social Condition" ; ii Music, Metaphor, Cliché ; iii Mr. Whelks and the Amusements of the People: Opera Without Music ; iv Some "Conventionalities" in Music Theatre ; v The Glorious Apollos: Hullah's Exemplary Singing Classes ; vi English Songs and Irish Ballads ; vii The Musical World According to Sala. Viii "They Order This Matter Better in France" ix Sala's Musical World in St. Petersburg ; x The Burning of Covent Garden, 1856 ; xi Technology and George Dodd's "Music Measure": Music by the Barrel ; xii Street Music and Noise ; xiii Musical Stories: Fiction with a Purpose ; xiv The Amusements of the People, Resumed ; Chapter 2 All The Year Round: 1859-1870; i Getting Started ; ii Keyboards and Comettant: Playing and Not Playing ; iii More "Conventionalities" ; iv National Songs: Theirs and Ours ; v Tribute to Hullah: The English are a Musical People. Vi Music, Noise, and Barrel Organs Again vii Country Bands and Military Bands ; viii Musical Genius and Handel ; ix Musical Genius and Blind Black Tom ; x Roman Opera: Coletti at the Apollo ; xi Music Halls I: All The Year Round Approves ; xii Music Halls II: All The Year Round Disapproves ; xiii La Traviata and Calvinism: A Change of Heart ; xiv Musical Stories and "Home Tragedy" ; Chapter 3 Chorley's World and All The Year Round; i Chorley and All The Year Round ; ii Wagnerian Nightmares: English Musicality and Continental Decadence ; iii Prima Donnas and Violinists. Iv Shakespeare, Faust, and Music about Music v De Mortuis: Obituaries for Meyerbeer and Berlioz ; vi Offenbach and Wagner: The Mire and the Mist ; Chapter 4 Music and Friendship; i Dickens, Viardot, and the Prophet ; ii Musical Friends in England ; iii Chorley and the Lehmanns ; iv Dickens and the Lehmanns ; v Orphée in Paris: Offenbach, Gluck, Berlioz ; vi Robert Lytton's Tannhäuser and Arthur Sullivan's Tempest ; vii A Time to Weep and a Reason: Orphée and Resurrection ; viii Gounod's Faust: Angels and Pursuers ; Epilogue ; i Classical Music and English Worshippers ; ii Personal ; Notes. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London, England New York : Continuum
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Copyright Date:
- 2012
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Subjects:
- 052
Musical criticism -- England -- History -- 19th century
REFERENCE -- General
Journalism
Musical criticism
Political and social views
England
Electronic books
History
Political and social views
Career in journalism - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781441175090
1441175091 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781472526878
9781441150875
1441150870 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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