The idea of art music in a commercial world, 1800-1930. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christina Bashford and Roberta Montemorra Marvin.
• Other Names: Bashford, Christina; Montemorra Marvin, Roberta
• Contents: Frontcover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; A Note on Translations; Bibliographic Abbreviations; Introduction: The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World; Part I Publishers; Part II Personalities; Part III Instruments; Part IV Repertories; Part V Settings; Index; 1 Selling 'Celebrity': The Role of the Dedication in Marketing Piano Arrangements of Rossini's Military Marches; 2 Creating Success and Forming Imaginaries: The Innovative Publicity Campaign for Puccini's La bohème. 3 Novello, John Stainer and Commercial Opportunities in the Nineteenth- Century British Amateur Music Market4 Jenny Lind, Illustration, Song and the Relationship between Prima Donna and Public; 5 A German in Paris: Richard Wagner and the Masking of Commodification Nicholas Vazsonyi; 6 Conductors and Self-Promotion in the British Nineteenth-Century Marketplace; 7 'What the Piano[la] Means to the Home': Advertising of Conventional and Player Pianos in the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal, 1914-17; 8 Art, Commerce and Artisanship: Violin Culture in Britain, c. 1880-1920. 9 Read All About It! Ancient Greek Music Hits American Newspapers, 1875-193810 Selling a 'False Verdi' in Victorian London; 11 Schicht, Hauptmann, Mendelssohn and the Consumption of Sacred Music in Leipzig; 12 The Business of Music on the Peripheries of Empire: A Turn-of-the-Century Case Study; 13 'Disguised Publicity' and the Performativity of Taste: Musical Scores in French Magazines and Newspapers of the Belle Époque.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 780; Music -- Social aspects; MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical; MUSIC -- Reference; HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century; Music -- Social aspects; Musik; Musikwirtschaft; Kommerzialisierung; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782047667; 1782047662
• Related ISBNs: 9781783270651; 1783270659
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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