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Before the Baton
This book investigates the ways large-scale music was directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s. After surveying practice in Italy, Germany and France from Antiquity to the eighteenth century, the focus is on direction in two strands of music making in Stuart and Georgian Britain: choral music from Restoration cathedrals to the oratorio tradition deriving from Handel, and music in the theatre from the Jacobean masque to nineteenth-century opera, ending with an account of how modern baton conducting spread in the 1830s from the pit of the Haymarket Theatre to the Philharmonic Society and to large-scale choral music. Part social and musical history based o...
Hail! bright Cecilia
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Classical Music
Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews.
Life After Death
New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.
