Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round /: Household words and All the year round. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• 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 ; 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.
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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