Books in the Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series

Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context. Attention is given to some of the performance issues raised.

The aim of this volume is to analyze the contribution of music journalists to the revival of English music in the second half of the 19th century - the phenomenon that came to be called the "English musical renaissance". In so doing it re-evaluates their impact on British musical history.

Devoted to the life and music of Charles Villiers Stanford, this book pieces together the story of the life of this prominent pre-First World War musician.

Explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during the 19th-century, by utilizing theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential.

Selected from papers given at the third biennial conference, "Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain", this book, in common with its two predecessors, reflects the topic's interdisciplinary character. The essays are divided into thematic groups, including gender, church music and national identity.

Born into the famous family of piano makers, Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929) became one of the chief collectors and scholars of the first English folk music revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This biography sheds light on her early years and chronicles her later busy social, artistic and musical life.

As the first comprehensive study of MacCunn's life, this book illustrates how social and cultural situations, as well as personal relationships, influenced his career. Having risen to fame in the late 1880s with a string of Scottish works.

Focuses upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four sections, '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.

How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? That is the question which this volume of essays explores in order to achieve a better understanding of the place of music and its significance in 19th-century British culture.

As well as recording the details of the major works of Michael William Balfe, the author describes the atmosphere of London operatic life and the chaotic conditions under which Balfe's operas were written and produced.

The idea that the middle class arose during the 1880s is now widely accepted amongst social historians but the notion that such a social group dominated music appreciation is probably untrue. This book explores the European middle class and its role in musical life.