Music in London and the Myth of Decline

From Haydn to the Philharmonic

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Ian Taylor

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Drawing on a range of contemporary performance documentation, including concert programmes, newspaper reviews and periodical reports, this book addresses what it refers to as the Philharmonic 'myth': the notion that London experienced a period of orchestral inactivity between the departure of Haydn in 1795 and the founding of the Philharmonic Society some eighteen years later. The book illustrates that, far from constituting a radical new departure in patterns of London concert life, the Philharmonic Society built on the growing interest in orchestral music evident over the preceding years. At the same time, it suggests that the deliberate adoption of orchestral repertory marked the first institutional articulation of a professional opposition to the traditional dominance of fashionable Italian opera, and that the Philharmonic might therefore be seen to reflect the emergence of important new strands in musical, artistic and cultural leadership.

Author Biography:

Ian Taylor is Assistant Director of Music at Downe House School. His work has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Brio, and Handbooks for Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Music.

Release date NZ

May 20th, 2010

Author

Ian Taylor

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

27 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white

Pages

224

Dimensions

180x255x17

ISBN-13

9780521896092

Product ID

4360484

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