Title Before the baton : musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain / Peter Holman

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 405 pages) : illustrations Series Music In Britain 1600-1900, 2053-3217 Music in Britain, 1600-1900. Contents Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- List of Abbreviations -- Prelude. To Beat or Not to Beat: The Continental Context -- Part I. Directing Choral Music -- 1 'Heard but not Seen': Leading Anglican Cathedral Music from the Organ -- 2 'With a Scroll of Parchment or Paper, in Hand': Large- Scale Choral Music -- 3 'Accompanied all along on the Organ by his Own Inimitable Hand': Handel and the Direction of his Oratorios -- 4 'The Conductor at the Organ': The Oratorio Tradition after Handel Part II. Directing Opera and Theatre Music -- 5 'That Ridiculous Custom': From Devolved Direction to Centralized Time-Beating in Seventeenth-Century Theatre Music -- 6 'Il maestro al cembalo': Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Harpsichord -- 7 'A New Discipline and a New Style of Playing': Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Violin -- 8 'That Powerful Sovereign, the Conductor': From the Piano to the Rostrum -- Postlude. Superconductors or Semiconductors? Lessons for Today -- Bibliography -- Index Summary How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s? Analysis British music history Conducting Haymarket Theatre Jacobean masque Musical Direction Philharmonic Society Stuart and Georgian Britain baton conducting choral music direction large-scale music modern baton conducting music history opera oratorio tradition theatre music Notes This book investigates the ways large-scale music was directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s. Includes 50 black & white illustrations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-386) and index Notes Print version record Subject Conducting -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Conducting -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Music -- Great Britain -- 17th century -- History and criticism Music -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- History and criticism MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Conducting. Conducting Music Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787446304 1787446301

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