Charles Edward McGuire

Music and Victorian Philanthropy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of the revolutionary tonic sol-fa sight-singing method, investigating the impact of this musical system on British Victorian society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521449687
• ISBN-10: 0521449685
• Artikelnr.: 26526068

Autorenporträt

Charles Edward McGuire is Associate Professor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Dissenters, philanthropists, and the world of tonic sol-fa
2. Temperance and tonic sol-fa
3. Missionaries and tonic sol-fa
4. Suffragists, suffragettes, domestic ideals, and tonic sol-fa
Epilogue: tonic sol-fa, the public, and the end of an era
Appendix: provenance of tonic sol-fa journals.