Author: G. SharpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Sharp's New London Songster
Author: G. SharpSongs of the West
Author: Martin GraebePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Catalogue of a Collection of Works on Or Having Reference to the Exhibition of 1851
Author: Charles Wentworth DilkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108036619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Privately published in 1855, this catalogue lists several hundred contemporary publications that testify to the impact of the Great Exhibition.
Catalogue of English Song Books Forming a Portion of the Library of Sir John Stainer
Author: John StainerStreet Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317049217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.
A San Francisco Songster
Author: History of Music ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Paul WattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110816174X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture and facilitated their consumption. Taking an international perspective, chapters focus on songsters from Ireland, North America, Australia and Britain and the varied public and private contexts in which they were used and exploited in oral and print cultures.
Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills
Author: Norman CazdenPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791498646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.
The Musical Miscellany: Or, Songster's Companion, Being a Collection of New Humourous Songs, Etc
Author: MISCELLANYKitty Clive, Or the Fair Songster
Author: Berta JoncusPublisher:
ISBN: 9781783273461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. She dominated spoken as well as musical comedy. From the 1740s onwards, her reputation suffered a sharp decline. For anyone curious about star production in eighteenth-century Britain, her story is not to be missed. Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. Singing powered her ascent and, for twenty years, was foundational to her success as she came to dominate spoken as well as musical comedy. Her protean powers transfixed audiences, whether in low-style productions or in works by masters like Purcell, Shakespeare, and Dryden. Celebrities such as Handel and Henry Fielding wrote vehicles for her. Clive's career was unique. Despite a sometimes awkward biography - her father was a disgraced Irish Catholic; she defied managers; her marriage was almost certainly a social ruse and her 'husband' a homosexual - her musical voice helped her to become the champion of British song, of patriotism, and of propriety. Yet in the 1740s, critical opinion turned against Clive and the financial power she wielded. Salvaging her career with David Garrick's help, Clive gutted her legacy. She quit serious song and took to caricaturing herself on stage, winning back audiences by disparaging her earlier achievements. Altering works mid-performance, creating and re-shaping stage genres, and leveraging press coverage while seeming not to, she was above all a shrewd manager and a fascinating stage artist. Clive's career reveals to us gorgeous song otherwise lost and perspectives previously unknown. For music historians, musicologists, theatre scholars, and anyone curious about performance history and star production in eighteenth-century Britain, her story is not to be missed. BERTA JONCUS is Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London.