Author: Thomas BillingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs (High voice) with harp
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Eight Canzonets Peculiarly Adapted for Ladies,
Author: Thomas BillingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs (High voice) with harp
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Eight Canzonets, peculiarly adapted for ladies, with an accompanyment for the piano forte or harp, composed by the author of the favorite ballad In airy Dreams, etc
Author: A Second Sett of Eight Canzonets Peculiarly Adapted for Ladies
Author: Thomas BillingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs with harp
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 Now in the British Museum: A-K.- v. 2. L-Z and First supplement
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Sovereign Feminine
Author: Matthew HeadPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520954769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity—a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal—linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.
The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter
Author: Caroline GrigsonPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Anne Home Hunter (1741-1821) was one of the most successful song writers of the second half of the eighteenth century, most famously as the poet who wrote the lyrics of many of Haydn’s songs. However her work, which included many more serious, lyrical and romantic poems has been largely forgotten. This book contains over 200 poems, some published in her life-time under her married name ‘Mrs John Hunter’, some attributed only to ‘a Lady’, and most importantly many transcribed from her manuscripts, housed in various archives and in a private collection, which are now collected for the first time. Hitherto Anne Hunter has been known almost entirely through her ‘Poems’ published in 1802, in her Introduction Isobel Armstrong argues that she saw this book as a definitive representation of her poetry. Besides her consummately skilful lyrics and songs it contains serious political odes and reflective poems. The unpublished material amplifies and extends the work of 1802. The introduction is followed by a long biographical essay by Caroline Grigson. The daughter of Robert Home, an impoverished Scottish Army surgeon, Anne Hunter spent her adult life in London where she married the famous anatomist John Hunter, with whom she lived in great style, latterly as a bluestocking hostess, until his death in 1793. The book includes many new details of her long life, her friendship with Angelica Kaufman (who painted her portrait - see cover) and the bluestocking, Elizabeth Carter. The account of Anne’s life as a widow describes her relationships with her family, her niece the playwright Joanna Baillie, and her friends, especially those of the famous Minto family, as well as the Scottish impresario George Thomson. Of especial interest is the discovery of a previously unrecorded visit that Haydn made to her during his second London visit when she was living in Blackheath. Expertly researched which Grigson’s book sets Anne Hunter’s oeuvre in the political and social context of the time and will be required reading to scholars of literature and music alike.
The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980
Author: British Library. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalogue of [printed and Manuscript Music, Books on Music and Musical Instruments] which Will be Sold at Auction
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Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Catalogue B.
Author: Lisa Cox (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The British Union-catalogue of Early Music Before the Year 1801
Author: Edith Betty SchnapperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description