The Decline of the English Musician, 1788-1888 : A Family of English Musicians in Ireland, England, Mauritius, and Australia

Beedell, Ann

ISBN 10: 0198162944 / ISBN 13: 9780198162940

Editore: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1992

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1st edition, 1992. Pictorial dustjacket slightly bumped at the top edge. otherwise jacket and book both in fine condition. Cover illustration by Thomas Rowlandson. Illustrated. 329 pages. Codice articolo ABE-4791364114

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Titolo: The Decline of the English Musician, 1788-...

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press Oxford

Data di pubblicazione: 1992

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

The century of English musical history covered here is notorious for its failure of creativity, yet the concurrent obsession with music as a commodity belies the notion of England as "the land without music." This book is a social history of music at that time. It focuses on the Castells, a family of English musicians in Ireland, England, Mauritius and Australia over five generations. Drawn from personal letters and documents, their story, at once picaresque and tragic, is fascinating in its own right; but in its pattern of ambition, frustration and decline, it is also representative of the English musical profession.

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