Arthur Sullivan by Benedict Taylor
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan’s reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the British musicological establishment, while his serious works have until recently remained virtually unknown. The time is thus long overdue for scholarly re-engagement with Sullivan. The present book offers a new appraisal of the music of this most notable nineteenth-century British composer, combining close analytical attention to his music with critical consideration of the wider aesthetic and social context to his work. Focusing on key pieces in all the major genres in which Sullivan composed, it includes accounts of his most important serious works – the music to The Tempest, the ‘Irish’ Symphony, The Golden Legend, Ivanhoe – alongside detailed examination of the celebrated comic operas created with W.S. Gilbert to present a balanced portrayal of Sullivan’s musical achievement.
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The English Bach Awakening
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Michael William Balfe
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Vincent Novello (1781-1861)
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Music and the Middle Class
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The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction
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Viotti and the Chinnerys
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French Music in Britain 1830-1914
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The House of Novello
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Music in The Girl's Own Paper: An Annotated Catalogue, 1880-1910
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A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880–1951
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John Varley Roberts and Religious Musical Life in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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The Singing Bourgeois
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Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era
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Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology
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Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 17911914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?
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Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s
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Mendelssohn and Victorian England
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Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England
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Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918
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Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies
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Michael Costa: England's First Conductor
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Figures of the Imagination
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Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts
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The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music
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Charles Halle: A Musical Life
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The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784-1914
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Richard D'Oyly Carte
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Singing the English
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Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): A Musical Life
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In Search of Song: The Life and Times of Lucy Broadwood
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Music and World-Building in the Colonial City
Benedict Taylor is Lecturer in Music and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (2011) and The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (2016).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781409469100 |
| ISBN 10 | 1409469107 |
| Title | Arthur Sullivan |
| Author | Benedict Taylor |
| Series | Music In Nineteenth-Century Britain |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2017-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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