Description

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In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introduction of music into powerful institutions, both out of belief in music's inherently beneficial properties, and also to promote music occupations and professions in society at large. This book provides a representative and varied sample of the interactions between music and organizations in various locations in the nineteenth-century British Empire, exploring not only how and why music was institutionalized, but also how and why institutions became 'musicalized'.

About the Author

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Paul Rodmell is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Charles Villiers Stanford (Ashgate, 2002) and has also written on music-making in nineteenth-century Dublin and opera in late-Victorian Britain.