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The Resource American orchestras in the nineteenth century, edited by John Spitzer

American orchestras in the nineteenth century, edited by John Spitzer

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Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert hall. And what they heard weren't just symphonic works--programs also included opera excerpts and arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and medleys of patriotic tunes. This book brings together musicologists and historians to investigate the many orchestras and programs that developed in nineteenth-century America. In addition to reflecting on the music that orchestras played and the socioeconomic aspects of building and maintaining orchestras, the book considers a wide range of topics, including audiences, entrepreneurs, concert arrangements, tours, and musicians' unions. The authors also show that the period saw a massive influx of immigrant performers, the increasing ability of orchestras to travel across the nation, and the rising influence of women as listeners, patrons, and players [Publisher description]
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
x, 493 pages
Contents
  • Toward a history of American orchestras in the nineteenth century
  • Deane L. Root
  • John Spitzer
  • Ubiquity and diversity.
  • The ubiquity and diversity of nineteenth-century American orchestras
  • John Spitzer
  • Building the American symphony orchestra : the nineteenth-century roots of a twenty-first-century musical institution
  • Mark Clague
  • Modeling music : early organizational structures of American women's orchestras
  • Anna-Lise P. Santella
  • American orchestras and their unions in the nineteenth century
  • Karen Ahlquist
  • Critic and conductor in 1860s Chicago : George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and cultural capitalism
  • James Deaville
  • Amateur and professional, permanent and transient : orchestras in the District of Columbia, 1877-1905
  • Patrick Warfield
  • The orchestra and the American city.
  • Orchestras : local versus national
  • John Spitzer
  • Invisible instruments : theater orchestras in New York, 1850-1900
  • John Graziano
  • Beethoven and beer : orchestral music in German beer gardens in nineteenth-century New York City
  • John Koegel and Jonas Westover
  • Performances to "permanence" : orchestra building in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati
  • Ora Frishberg Saloman
  • Gender and the germanians : "art-loving ladies" in nineteenth-century concert life
  • Nancy Newman
  • Conductors, promoters, patrons.
  • Marketing the American orchestra
  • John Spitzer
  • Bernard Ullman and the business of orchestras in mid-nineteenth-century New York
  • Bethany S. Goldberg
  • John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra : a help or a hindrance?
  • Mary Wallace Davidson
  • The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877-78 : background, instrumentation, programming, and critical reception
  • America and Europe.
  • Orchestras : American and European
  • John Spitzer
  • "A concentration of talent on our musical horizon" : the 1853-54 American tour by Jullien's extraordinary orchestra
  • Katherine K. Preston
  • Ureli Corelli Hill : an American musician's European travels and the creation of the New York Philharmonic
  • Barbara Haws
  • Adrienne Fried Block
  • Orchestral repertory.
  • Orchestral repertory : highbrow and lowbrow
  • John Spitzer
  • Orchestral programs in Boston, 1842-55, in European perspective
  • William Weber
  • Theodore Thomas and the cultivation of American music
  • Brenda Nelson-Strauss
  • Thinking about serious music in New York, 1842-82
  • Afterword : coming of age
  • Ronald G. Walters
Isbn
9780226769769
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Label
American orchestras in the nineteenth century
Title
American orchestras in the nineteenth century
Statement of responsibility
edited by John Spitzer
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert hall. And what they heard weren't just symphonic works--programs also included opera excerpts and arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and medleys of patriotic tunes. This book brings together musicologists and historians to investigate the many orchestras and programs that developed in nineteenth-century America. In addition to reflecting on the music that orchestras played and the socioeconomic aspects of building and maintaining orchestras, the book considers a wide range of topics, including audiences, entrepreneurs, concert arrangements, tours, and musicians' unions. The authors also show that the period saw a massive influx of immigrant performers, the increasing ability of orchestras to travel across the nation, and the rising influence of women as listeners, patrons, and players [Publisher description]
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ICU/DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1945-
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Spitzer, John
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  • Orchestra
  • Music
  • Orchestre
  • Musique
  • Music
  • Orchestra
  • United States
  • Orchester
  • USA
Label
American orchestras in the nineteenth century, edited by John Spitzer
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-477) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Toward a history of American orchestras in the nineteenth century
  • Deane L. Root
  • John Spitzer
  • Ubiquity and diversity.
  • The ubiquity and diversity of nineteenth-century American orchestras
  • John Spitzer
  • Building the American symphony orchestra : the nineteenth-century roots of a twenty-first-century musical institution
  • Mark Clague
  • Modeling music : early organizational structures of American women's orchestras
  • Anna-Lise P. Santella
  • American orchestras and their unions in the nineteenth century
  • Karen Ahlquist
  • Critic and conductor in 1860s Chicago : George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and cultural capitalism
  • James Deaville
  • Amateur and professional, permanent and transient : orchestras in the District of Columbia, 1877-1905
  • Patrick Warfield
  • The orchestra and the American city.
  • Orchestras : local versus national
  • John Spitzer
  • Invisible instruments : theater orchestras in New York, 1850-1900
  • John Graziano
  • Beethoven and beer : orchestral music in German beer gardens in nineteenth-century New York City
  • John Koegel and Jonas Westover
  • Performances to "permanence" : orchestra building in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati
  • Ora Frishberg Saloman
  • Gender and the germanians : "art-loving ladies" in nineteenth-century concert life
  • Nancy Newman
  • Conductors, promoters, patrons.
  • Marketing the American orchestra
  • John Spitzer
  • Bernard Ullman and the business of orchestras in mid-nineteenth-century New York
  • Bethany S. Goldberg
  • John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra : a help or a hindrance?
  • Mary Wallace Davidson
  • The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877-78 : background, instrumentation, programming, and critical reception
  • America and Europe.
  • Orchestras : American and European
  • John Spitzer
  • "A concentration of talent on our musical horizon" : the 1853-54 American tour by Jullien's extraordinary orchestra
  • Katherine K. Preston
  • Ureli Corelli Hill : an American musician's European travels and the creation of the New York Philharmonic
  • Barbara Haws
  • Adrienne Fried Block
  • Orchestral repertory.
  • Orchestral repertory : highbrow and lowbrow
  • John Spitzer
  • Orchestral programs in Boston, 1842-55, in European perspective
  • William Weber
  • Theodore Thomas and the cultivation of American music
  • Brenda Nelson-Strauss
  • Thinking about serious music in New York, 1842-82
  • Afterword : coming of age
  • Ronald G. Walters
Control code
742017616
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 493 pages
Isbn
9780226769769
Lccn
2011030079
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
40020807899
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)742017616
Label
American orchestras in the nineteenth century, edited by John Spitzer
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-477) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Toward a history of American orchestras in the nineteenth century
  • Deane L. Root
  • John Spitzer
  • Ubiquity and diversity.
  • The ubiquity and diversity of nineteenth-century American orchestras
  • John Spitzer
  • Building the American symphony orchestra : the nineteenth-century roots of a twenty-first-century musical institution
  • Mark Clague
  • Modeling music : early organizational structures of American women's orchestras
  • Anna-Lise P. Santella
  • American orchestras and their unions in the nineteenth century
  • Karen Ahlquist
  • Critic and conductor in 1860s Chicago : George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and cultural capitalism
  • James Deaville
  • Amateur and professional, permanent and transient : orchestras in the District of Columbia, 1877-1905
  • Patrick Warfield
  • The orchestra and the American city.
  • Orchestras : local versus national
  • John Spitzer
  • Invisible instruments : theater orchestras in New York, 1850-1900
  • John Graziano
  • Beethoven and beer : orchestral music in German beer gardens in nineteenth-century New York City
  • John Koegel and Jonas Westover
  • Performances to "permanence" : orchestra building in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati
  • Ora Frishberg Saloman
  • Gender and the germanians : "art-loving ladies" in nineteenth-century concert life
  • Nancy Newman
  • Conductors, promoters, patrons.
  • Marketing the American orchestra
  • John Spitzer
  • Bernard Ullman and the business of orchestras in mid-nineteenth-century New York
  • Bethany S. Goldberg
  • John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra : a help or a hindrance?
  • Mary Wallace Davidson
  • The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877-78 : background, instrumentation, programming, and critical reception
  • America and Europe.
  • Orchestras : American and European
  • John Spitzer
  • "A concentration of talent on our musical horizon" : the 1853-54 American tour by Jullien's extraordinary orchestra
  • Katherine K. Preston
  • Ureli Corelli Hill : an American musician's European travels and the creation of the New York Philharmonic
  • Barbara Haws
  • Adrienne Fried Block
  • Orchestral repertory.
  • Orchestral repertory : highbrow and lowbrow
  • John Spitzer
  • Orchestral programs in Boston, 1842-55, in European perspective
  • William Weber
  • Theodore Thomas and the cultivation of American music
  • Brenda Nelson-Strauss
  • Thinking about serious music in New York, 1842-82
  • Afterword : coming of age
  • Ronald G. Walters
Control code
742017616
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 493 pages
Isbn
9780226769769
Lccn
2011030079
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
40020807899
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)742017616

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