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Titre(s) : London voices, 1820-1840 [Texte imprimé] : vocal performers, practices, histories / edited by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford
Publication : Chicago ; London : the University of Chicago Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (293 pages) : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors
alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two
decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion places
different classes in dangerous proximity and ideas of political and social reform
linger in the air, London begins to undergo enormous infrastructure change that will
alter it forever. It is the London of this period that editors Roger Parker and Susan
Rutherford pinpoint in this book, which chooses one broad musical category--voice--and
engages with it through essays on music of the streets, theaters, opera houses, and
concert halls; on the raising of voices in religious and sociopolitical contexts;
and on the perception of voice in literary works and scientific experiments with acoustics.
Emphasizing human subjects, this focus on voice allows the authors to explore the
multifaceted issues that shaped London, from the anxiety surrounding the city's importance
in the musical world at large to the changing vocal imaginations that permeated the
epoch. Capturing the breadth of sonic stimulations and cultures available--and sometimes
unavoidable--to residents at the time, London Voices, 1820-1840 sheds new light on
music in Britain and the richness of London culture during this period."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Parker, Roger (1951-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rutherford, Susan (1956-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Musique vocale -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226670188. - ISBN 022667018X. - ISBN 9780226670218 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb458547323
Notice n° :
FRBNF45854732
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Table des matières : Introduction : London voices 1820-1840 : a "luminous guide" / / Roger Parker and Susan
Rutherford ; ; How the ballad singer lost her "woice" / / Oskar Cox Jensen ; ; The
traffic in voices : the exchange value of Italian opera in Giuseppe Mazzini's London
/ / Mary Ann Smart ; ; Interpreting the Italian voice in London (and elsewhere) /
/ Claudio Vellutini ; ; The castrato as creator : Velluti's voice in the London sheet-music
market / / Sarah Fuchs ; ; "The essence of nine trombones" : Luigi Lablache and models
of masculinity in 1830s London / / Sarah Hibberd ; ; Adelaide Kemble and the voice
as means / / Matildie Thom Wium ; ; On tongues and ears : divine voices in the modern
metropolis / / James Grande ; ; From dissent to community : the Sacred Harmonic Society
and amateur choral singing in London / / Wiebke Thormählen ; ; Foreign voices, performing
Frenchness : Jenny Colon and the "French plays" in London / / Kimberly White ; ;
"Singer for the million" ; Henry Russell, popular song, and the solo recital / / Susan
Rutherford ; ; Vessels of flame : Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the improviser's voice
/ / Melina Esse ; ; "Silver fork" novels and the place of voice / / Cormac Newark
; ; Voice boxes / / Ellen Lockhart.