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Using archival material and many unpublished sources, this work traces the origins of Oxford and Cambridge University colleges as places of learning, founded from the thirteenth century, for unmarried men who were required to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the majority of whom trained for the priesthood. The process reveals how the isolated monk-like existence was gradually transformed from the idea of married Fellows at University Colleges being considered absurd into considering it absurd not to allow Fellows to marry and keep their fellowships and therefore their income. This book shows how the Church was accepted as an essential element in society with university trained ...
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Context: Conductors in the British Marketplace (1870-1914) -- 2 Conducting the Philharmonic Societies of Liverpool and London (1867-1880s): Julius Benedict and William Cusins -- 3 Conducting the Royal Choral Society and the Leeds Festival (1880s-1890s): Joseph Barnby and Arthur Sullivan -- 4 Conducting the Philharmonic Society of London (1888-1900s): Frederic Cowen and Alexander Mackenzie -- 5 Conducting in Bournemouth, London and Birmingham (1890s-1914): Dan Godfrey Junior and Landon Ronald -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index
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The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow takes a fresh look at the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Offering an alternative to the traditional focus on either highbrow modernism on the one hand or lowbrow popular music on the other, its novel view centers on the wealth of previously overlooked products and practices that bridged the space between these cultural extremes. While seminal attempts to recover middlebrow culture came from literary critics and historians, middlebrow studies is now a burgeoning field within musicology. As the first essay collection on this topic, this handbook has two aims: first, it seeks to explore the middlebrow as a historical phenomeno...
The words surrounding music influence how we listen to it.
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