Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914
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Author_Pippa Drummond
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Birmingham Festival
British musical heritage
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choirs
Choirs Festival
Chopin
Choral Societies
choral society history
concerts
Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
English festival commissioning practices
English Music Festivals
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Festival Chorus
festival patronage
festivals
gender in music performance
gloucester
Gloucester Festival
Handel's Messiah
Handel’s Messiah
Haydn's Creation
Haydn’s Creation
Judas Maccabaeus
Leeds Festival
Leeds Musical Festivals
Madame Caradori
miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Concerts
Morning Concerts
musical
nineteenth-century concerts
norwich
Norwich Festival
Provincial Festivals
Provincial Music Festival
Quarterly Musical Magazine
Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle
sacred secular music conflict
Sacred Selections
Sir Henry Wood
times
Town Hall
Triennial Festival
Product details
- ISBN 9781138260580
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.
Dr Pippa Drummond was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK, where she took the degrees of MA, BMus and D.Phil. After a number of years as a Junior Research Fellow and Director of Music at St Hugh's, she was appointed to a Lectureship at Sheffield University. After a break from academic life to bring up a family and pursue a professional flute-playing career Drummond spent several years as Head of Woodwind at Trent College. Drummond is the author of The German Concerto: Five Eighteenth-Century Studies (1980).
