The Music Trade in Georgian England

by Michael Kassler
The Music Trade in Georgian England
Author: Michael Kassler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351542176
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In contrast to today's music industry, whose principal products are recorded songs sold to customers round the world, the music trade in Georgian England was based upon London firms that published and sold printed music and manufactured and sold instruments on which this music could be played. The destruction of business records and other primary sources has hampered investigation of this trade, but recent research into legal proceedings, apprenticeship registers, surviving correspondence and other archived documentation has enabled aspects of its workings to be reconstructed. The first part of the book deals with Longman & Broderip, arguably the foremost English music seller in the late eighteenth century, and the firm's two successors - Broderip & Wilkinson and Muzio Clementi's variously styled partnerships - who carried on after Longman & Broderip's assets were divided in 1798. The next part shows how a rival music seller, John Bland, and his successors, used textual and thematic catalogues to advertise their publications. This is followed by a comprehensive review of the development of musical copyright in this period, a report of efforts by a leading inventor, Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, to transform the ways in which music was printed and recorded, and a study of Georg Jacob Vollweiler's endeavour to introduce music lithography into England. The book should appeal not only to music historians but also to readers interested in English business history, publishing history and legal history between 1714 and 1830.

The Music Trade in Georgian England

by Michael Kassler
The Music Trade in Georgian England
Author: Michael Kassler
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780754660651
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Recent research has enabled aspects of the workings of the music trade in Georgian England to be reconstructed. Examined here are the activities of the music seller Longman & Broderip, and the firm's two successors, together with those of their rival, John Bland. A review of the development of musical copyright in this period is included, together with an investigation into the efforts of Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope to transform the ways in which music was printed and recorded, and Georg Jacob Vollweiler's endeavours to introduce music lithography into England.

The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920

by Rosemary Golding
The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920
Author: Rosemary Golding
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351965743
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Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Trades and occupations sought protection and improved status via alignment with the professions: an attempt to impose order and standards amid rapid social change, urbanisation and technological development. The structures and expectations governing the music profession were no exception, and were central to changing perceptions of musicians and music itself during the long nineteenth century. The central themes of status and identity run throughout this book, charting ways in which the music profession engaged with its place in society. Contributors investigate the ways in which musicians viewed their own identities, public perceptions of the working musician, the statuses of different sectors of the profession and attempts to manipulate both status and identity. Ten chapters examine a range of sectors of the music profession, from publishers and performers to teachers and military musicians, and overall themes include class, gender and formal accreditation. The chapters demonstrate the wide range of sectors within the music profession, the different ways in which these took on status and identity, and the unique position of professional musicians both to adopt and to challenge social norms.

A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880–1951

by Karen E. McAulay
A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880–1951
Author: Karen E. McAulay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2024-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040216536
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Late Victorian Scotland had a flourishing music publishing trade, evidenced by the survival of a plethora of vocal scores and dance tune books; and whether informing us what people actually sang and played at home, danced to, or enjoyed in choirs, or reminding us of the impact of emigration from Britain for both emigrants and their families left behind, examining this neglected repertoire provides an insight into Scottish musical culture and is a valuable addition to the broader social history of Scotland. The decline of the music trade by the mid-twentieth century is attributable to various factors, some external, but others due to the conservative and perhaps somewhat parochial nature of the publishers’ output. What survives bears witness to the importance of domestic and amateur music-making in ordinary lives between 1880 and 1950. Much of the music is now little more than a historical artefact. Nonetheless, Karen E. McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often been dismissed as not significant or, indeed, properly ‘old’ enough to merit consideration. The book will be valuable for academics as well as folk musicians and those interested in the social and musical history of Scotland and the British Isles.

Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture

by Luca Lévi Sala
Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture
Author: Luca Lévi Sala
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351800884
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Recent scholarship has vanquished the traditional perception of nineteenth-century Britain as a musical wasteland. In addition to attempting more balanced assessments of the achievements of British composers of this period, scholars have begun to explore the web of reciprocal relationships between the societal, economic and cultural dynamics arising from the industrial revolution, the Napoleonic wars, and the ever-changing contours of British music publishing, music consumption, concert life, instrument design, performance practice, pedagogy and composition. Muzio Clementi (1752–1832) provides an ideal case-study for continued exploration of this web of relationships. Based in London for much of his life, whilst still maintaining contact with continental developments, Clementi achieved notable success in a diversity of activities that centred mainly on the piano. The present book explores Clementi’s multivalent contribution to piano performance, pedagogy, composition and manufacture in relation to British musical life and its international dimensions. An overriding purpose is to interrogate when, how and to what extent a distinctive British musical culture emerged in the early nineteenth century. Much recent work on Clementi has centred on the Italian National Edition of his complete works (MiBACT); several chapters report on this project, whilst continuing to pursue the book’s broader themes.

Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century

by Trevor Herbert
Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Trevor Herbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199898316
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The first book to explore the contribution made by the military to British music history, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century shows that military bands reached far beyond the official ceremonial duties they are often primarily associated with and had a significant impact on wider spheres of musical and cultural life.

Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law

by Isabella Alexander
Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law
Author: Isabella Alexander
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1783472405
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There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. Crucial to this activity has been a burgeoning focus on unpublished primary sources, enabling new and stimulating insights. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future.

Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses

by Christina Fuhrmann
Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses
Author: Christina Fuhrmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107022215
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London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.

Figures of the Imagination

by Roger Hansford
Figures of the Imagination
Author: Roger Hansford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 131713530X
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This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people’s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance novels by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Edward Bulwer and Charles Kingsley in the period 1790–1850, interrogating the ways that music served to create mood and atmosphere, enlivened social scenes and contributed to plot developments. He explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their intersection as examples of material culture. Hansford’s intersectional reading revolves around a series of imaginative figures – including the minstrel, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, and witches, and Christians engaged both in virtue and vice – the identities of which remained consistent as influence passed between the art forms. While romance authors quoted song lyrics and included musical descriptions and characters, their novels recorded and modelled the performance of songs by the middle and upper classes, influencing the work of composers and the actions of performers who read romance fiction.