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The Victorian Christmas Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

The Victorian Christmas Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Victorian Nursery Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

The Victorian Nursery Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Pantheon

Elegantly illustrated with hundreds of period engravings, photographs, and advertisements, this album recreates the genteel spirit of the Victorian nursery and includes excerpts from contemporary accounts and children's books.

The Xenophobe's Guide to the English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 95

The Xenophobe's Guide to the English

A guide to understanding the English that gets beyond the stiff upper lip and reveals their true spirit and character.

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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 currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explo...

The Piano
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 964

The Piano

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-06-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Encyclopedia of the Piano was selected in its first edition as a Choice Outstanding Book and remains a fascinating and unparalleled reference work. The instrument has been at the center of music history with even composers of large symphonic work asserting that they do not write anything without sketching it out first on a piano; its limitations and expressive capacity have done much to shape the contours of the western musical idiom. Within the scope of this user-friendly guide is everything from the acoustics and construction of the piano to the history of the companies that have built them. The piano-lover might also be surprised to find an entry for Thomas Jefferson, and will no doubt read intently the passages about the changing history of the piano's place in the home. Uniformly well-written and authoritative, this guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, art history and beyond into the electronic age.

Discursive Construction of National Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Discursive Construction of National Identity

How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the other hand? The Discursive Construction of National Identity analyses discourses of national identity in Europe with particular attention to Austria.In the tradition of critical discourse analysis, the authors analyse current and on-going transformations in the self-and other definition of national identities using an innovative interdisciplinary approach which combines discourse-historical theory and methodology and political science perspec...

The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama

This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.

Architecture in the Family Way
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Architecture in the Family Way

Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.

A Victorian Christmas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 82

A Victorian Christmas

At the darkest moment of the year, when the nights seem endless and the days very short, comes that most joyful of festivals. Christmas is a truly magical season, bringing families and friends together to share the much-loved customs and traditions that over the centuries have come to surround this heart-warming and deeply symbolic occasion. Each family has their own personal traditions, and ways they celebrate the special day. Yet underneath the tinsel, fairy lights and wrapping paper are many long-standing traditions that we all know and love. Why do we drag a fir tree inside our house and decorate it? How long Santa has been delivering gifts to good children? What would Christmas be like ...

Company of Pianos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Company of Pianos

Richard Burnett traces the development of the piano from its origins to the present day, using instruments from his internationally known collection, at the Finchcocks Museum in Kent, England, as the inspiration and navigational means for his story.