Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Trades and occupations sought protection and improved status via alignment with the professions: an attempt to impose order and standards amid rapid social change, urbanisation and technological development. The structures and expectations governing the music profession were no exception, and were central to changing perceptions of musicians and music itself during the long nineteenth century. The central themes of status and identity run throughout this book, charting ways in which the music profession engaged with its place in society. Contributor...
This chapter looks at the ways in which hegemony, especially valorisation of musical types, has had ...
In this thesis I search for the realities of the reception of prodigies who are small musicians in B...
In 19th century Britain, the expanding middle classes and their aspirations to distinction through c...
During the century between 1750 and 1850, Britain experienced a major transformation of its economy ...
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, the status and identity of the musicians in British ...
Music teaching formed an important source of income for many musicians in the nineteenth century, wh...
Late-nineteenth-century London boasted a wealth of opportunities for aspiring professional musicians...
Music was an anomalous subject in the universities of nineteenth-century Britain. The institutionali...
Music has long been a degree subject in British universities. Yet its academic form and status chang...
The entrance of women into the male-dominated spheres of the professions and the arts has been a maj...
Existing accounts of the music profession argue that between 1750 and 1850 musicians acquired a new ...
This study provides valuable insights concerning the nature of professional practice in instrumental...
A search of music dictionaries including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Sadie & Ty...
Although military music was among the most widespread forms of music making during the nineteenth-ce...
Music occupied an ill-defined place in the universities of nineteenth-century Britain. The endowment...
This chapter looks at the ways in which hegemony, especially valorisation of musical types, has had ...
In this thesis I search for the realities of the reception of prodigies who are small musicians in B...
In 19th century Britain, the expanding middle classes and their aspirations to distinction through c...
During the century between 1750 and 1850, Britain experienced a major transformation of its economy ...
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, the status and identity of the musicians in British ...
Music teaching formed an important source of income for many musicians in the nineteenth century, wh...
Late-nineteenth-century London boasted a wealth of opportunities for aspiring professional musicians...
Music was an anomalous subject in the universities of nineteenth-century Britain. The institutionali...
Music has long been a degree subject in British universities. Yet its academic form and status chang...
The entrance of women into the male-dominated spheres of the professions and the arts has been a maj...
Existing accounts of the music profession argue that between 1750 and 1850 musicians acquired a new ...
This study provides valuable insights concerning the nature of professional practice in instrumental...
A search of music dictionaries including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Sadie & Ty...
Although military music was among the most widespread forms of music making during the nineteenth-ce...
Music occupied an ill-defined place in the universities of nineteenth-century Britain. The endowment...
This chapter looks at the ways in which hegemony, especially valorisation of musical types, has had ...
In this thesis I search for the realities of the reception of prodigies who are small musicians in B...
In 19th century Britain, the expanding middle classes and their aspirations to distinction through c...