Music and performance culture in nineteenth-century Britain : essays in honour of Nicholas Temperley / [edited by] Bennett Zon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Musical cultures. Hidden agendas and the creation of community : the violin press in the late nineteenth century / Christina Bashford ; Joining up the dots : cross-channel models in the shaping of London orchestral culture, 1895-1914 / Leanne Langley ; Charles Garland Verrinder and music at the West London Synagogue, 1859-1904 / Susan Wollenberg ; Music, morality, and rational amusement at the Victorian middle-class soirée / Derek B Scott -- Societies. Trial by dining club : the instrumental music of Haydn, Clementi and Mozart at London's Anacreontic Society / Simon McVeigh ; Performance in private : 'The working men's society' and the promotion of progressive repertoire in 19th-century Britain / Michael Allis ; American songs, pastoral nationalism, and the English temperance cantata / Charles McGuire -- National music. The British vocal album and the struggle for national music / Peter Horton ; Musicking caractacus / Julian Rushton -- Methods. The conductor at the organ, or how choral and orchestral music was directed in Georgian England / Peter Holman ; William Cole's view of modern psalmody / Sally Drage ; Samuel Wesley and the development of organ pedals in England / Philip Olleson ; Recapitulation and the musical education of Victorian children : the Child's Pianoforte Book (1882) by H. Keatley Moore / Bennett Zon.

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This is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. An introduction explores Nicholas Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions.

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