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  • The Musical World of Charles Avison

    Melodic Charm and the Powers of Harmony

    by Simon D.I. Fleming ...
    This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison. Although he spent most of his life in the northern town of Newcastle upon Tyne, Avison went on to have a marked impact on the musical life of Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. His concertos become part of the national concert repertory, while his critical treatise, An Essay ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Music by Subscription

    Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676–1820

    Edited by Simon D.I. Fleming, Martin Perkins ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works. These lists shed considerable light on the nature of those who subscribed to music, including their social status, place of employment, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • The Classical Music Map of Britain

    by Richard Fawkes ...
    The Classical Music Map of Britain is a charming and thoroughly interesting journey around our country from a classical music perspective. From Frith Street in Soho, where Mozart stayed and performed free street concerts during his only trip to England, to Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan, where Joseph Parry was born and raised until he was 13, The Classical Music Map of Britain is an enchanting ... Read more

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  • Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39

    Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

    by Benjamin Britten ...
    Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

    The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten

    by Benjamin Britten ...
    The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan ( The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier ( ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Story of British Classical Music

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The story of British classical music extends over more than a thousand years. A distinctive national tone was identifiable already in medieval times, and in the fifteenth century Dunstable was a leading international figure. The Renaissance saw the emergence of great composers such as Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons, and the seventeenth century was lit up by the brief but brilliant career of Purcell. ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Lives of George Frideric Handel

    by David Hunter ...
    To evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Thomas Beecham

    An Obsession with Music

    by John Lucas ...
    Thomas Beecham was one of Britain's greatest conductors of orchestral music and opera as well as an entrepreneur and impresario of exceptional energy and brilliant wit. This new life places him - musically, politically and socially - in the troubled times in which he lived and corrects the stories and myths, many of them Beecham's own making, that have grown up around this uniquely gifted and ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of English Music

    ca. 1400-1958

    by Charles Edward McGuire, Steven E. Plank ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    This reference seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan Williams in the mid-20th century. Some of the truly great "English" composers figuring in this ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • Conductors in Britain, 1870-1914

    Wielding the Baton at the Height of Empire

    by Fiona M. Palmer ...
    Drawing on many archival findings, this book considers the emerging function and status of orchestral conductors in Britain, and the nature of the opportunities available to them, from the late Victorian era until the outbreak ofWorld War I. It does so by examining and comparing the profiles and impact of eight men whose work supplied the needs of a variety of institutions across the period but ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life

    by Jeffrey Green ...
    Green’s study is more than a biography of an Anglo-African composer.The first comprehensive study of Coleridge-Taylor’s life for almost a century, it reveals how class-ridden Britain could embrace even the most unlikely of cultural icons. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley

    Edited by Bennett Zon ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD