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A Musical Chronology of The British Isles. Volume 4: 1880-1918

A Musical Chronology of The British Isles. Volume 4: 1880-1918

Wright, Dez

Paperback

Series: A Musical Chronology of the British Isles, Book 4

Music Reference

ISBN13: 9798841332855
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 19 2022
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This voulme in the series A Musical Chronology of the British Isles covers a period of less than forty years, but during this period Britain and its music industry changed completely. In 1880 there was a healthy concert life in the capital and elsewhere, but few composers or musicians who could claim to be world figures. By 1918 the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan were performed throughout the English speaking world, and composers such as Elgar, Parry and, to a lesser degree, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Coleridge-Taylor, Holst, Bax, Smyth and others had international reputations. Choral music had always cut across class boundaries, particularly in Wales and the north of England, but now the Proms and the Saturday concerts at Crystal Palace reached out to all. Music hall peaked during this period as the new cinema industry began to offer an increasingly sophisticated alternative. The biggest change in music in the home, however, was the introduction of the phonograph and the gramophone. Before the twentieth century music at home meant playing or singing it yourself, or, for the wealthy, hiring others to play. Now there was the possibility of music on demand. Radio, just around the corner in 1918, changed habits even further.

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