TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bledsoe,Robert Terrell
TI  - Dickens, journalism, music: Household words and All the year round 
T2  - Continuum Literary Studies
SN  - 9781441175090
AV  - PR4588 .B543 2012eb
U1  - 052 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, England, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Dickens, Charles,
KW  - Household words
KW  - All the year round
KW  - Musical criticism
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Critique musicale
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - REFERENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Journalism
KW  - fast
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round. Robert Bledsoe examines the editorial influence of Dickens on articles written by a range of writers and what it reveals about his own developing attitude to music and its social role in parks, community singing groups, music halls and on the streets. The book also looks at the difference between the two journals and how the greater coverage of classical music and opera in All the Year Round refle
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