The Great Vogue For The Guitar In Western Europe

The first book devoted to the composers, instrument makers and amateur players who advanced the great guitar vouge throughout Western Europe during the early decades of the nineteenth century.Contemporary critics viewed the fashion for the guitar with sheer hostility, seeing in it a rejection of true musical value. After all, such trends advanced against the grain of mainstream musical developments of ground-breaking (often Austro-German) repertoire for standard instruments. Yet amateur musicians throughout Europe persisted; many instruments were built to meet the demand, a substantial volume of music was published for amateurs to play, and soloist-composers moved freely between European cities. This book follows these lines of travel venturing as far as Moscow, and visiting all the great musical cities of the period, from London to Vienna, Madrid to Naples. The first section of the book looks at eighteenth-century precedents, the instrument - its makers and owners, amateur and professional musicians, printing and publishing, pedagogy, as well as aspects of repertoire. The second section explores the extensive repertoire for accompanied song and chamber music. A final substantive section assembles chapters on a wide array of the most significant soloist-composers of the time. The chapters evoke the guitar milieu in the various cities where each composer-player worked and offer a discussion of some representative works. This book, bringing together an international tally of contributors and never before examined sources, will be of interest to devotees of the guitar, as well as music historians of the Romantic period.

A pioneering work which delves into and reveals the links between music, moral instruction and social reform. This book discusses the role of music in programmes of personal improvement and social reform in nineteenth-century Britain. The pursuit of morality through music was designed not just to improve personal and communal character but to affect social change and transformation. The book examines the musical education of children, women and men through a variety of literature published for various educational settings including mechanics' institutes. It also considers the role of music in narratives of social programs and community-building projects that sought to promote utility, well-being and freedom from the strictures of Christianity as the dominant moral and cultural force. The first book to connect the threads between music, moral instruction and social reform across the educational life cycle in nineteenth-century Britain, it shows how these threads are found in unlikely places, such as games, manners books, economics treatises and short stories. It deftly illustrates the links between everyday life, popular culture and discourses of morality and social reform of the period.

Who is Roderick Floud In addition to being a pioneer in the subject of anthropometric history, Sir Roderick Castle Floud FBA is a noted economic historian from the United Kingdom. Between the years 2008 and 2014, he served as the provost of Gresham College, the vice-chancellor and president of London Metropolitan University, the acting dean of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and the provost of London Guildhall University. He is the son of Bernard Floud, who is a member of parliament. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Roderick Floud Chapter 2: Guildhall School of Music and Drama Chapter 3: Kellogg College, Oxford Chapter 4: Richard Chartres Chapter 5: Gresham College Chapter 6: School of Advanced Study Chapter 7: London Guildhall University Chapter 8: Lisa Jardine Chapter 9: Wendy Davies Chapter 10: Roderick Watkins Chapter 11: Christopher Page Chapter 12: Bernard Floud Chapter 13: Brian Roper (economist) Chapter 14: Kennedy Scholarship Chapter 15: Richard H. Steckel Chapter 16: Claudia Goldin Chapter 17: Martin Elliott Chapter 18: Geoffrey Crossick Chapter 19: Raymond Flood (mathematician) Chapter 20: Jagjit Chadha Chapter 21: Department of Classics, King's College London Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Roderick Floud.

A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England This book is the first to explore the popularity and novelty of the guitar in Georgian England, noting its impact on the social, cultural, and musical history of the period. The instrument possessed an imagery as rich as its uses were varied; it emerged as a potent symbol of Romanticism and was incorporated into poetry, portraiture, and drama. In addition, British and Irish soldiers returning from war in Spain and Portugal brought with them knowledge of the Spanish guitar and its connotations of stylish masculinity. Christopher Page presents entirely new scholarship in order to place the guitar within a multifaceted context, drawing from recently digitized original source material. The Guitar in Georgian England champions an instrument whose importance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often overlooked.

he popular Encyclopedia of the Blues, first published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1992 and reprinted six times, has become an indispensable reference source for all involved with or intrigued by the music. The work alphabetizes hundreds of biographical entries, presenting detailed examinations of the performers and of the instruments, trends, recordings, and producers who have created and popularized this truly American art form.

The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This is the first account of its rise in Stuart England.