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Although often labelled over-sentimental, 19th century British music offers much. Rather than dealing directly with the artistic value of the music, these essays discuss factual and technical information, musical life in 19th century Britain and music's place in this period of sweeping change.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Plates and Figures (p. ix)
• List of Tables and Music Examples (p. xi)
• Notes on Contributors (p. xiii)
• Foreword (p. xvii)
• Part 1 Introduction
• 1 Xenophilia in British Musical History (p. 3)
• Part 2 Historiography
• 2 History, Historicism and the Sublime Analogy (p. 23)
• 3 Parry as Historiographer (p. 37)
• Part 3 Instruments and Performing Ensembles
• 4 Who bought Concertinas in the Winter of 1851? A Glimpse at the Sales Accounts of Wheatstone and Co. (p. 55)
• 5 Violin Pedagogy in England during the first half of the Nineteenth Century, or The Incompleat Tutor for the Violin (p. 88)
• 6 The Practice and Context of a Private Victorian Brass Band (p. 105)
• Part 4 The Wesley Family
• 7 The Obituary of Samuel Wesley (p. 121)
• 8 The Unknown Wesley: The Early Instrumental and Secular Vocal Music of Samuel Sebastian Wesley (p. 134)
• Part 5 Local Music History
• 9 Musical Life in the 'second city of the Empire' during the 1870s as reflected in T. L. Stillie's contributions to the Glasgow Herald (p. 181)
• 10 Music in Nineteenth-Century Oxford (p. 201)
• 11 Music-Making in a Yorkshire Country House (p. 209)
• Part 6 Repertoire, Genre and Concert Life
• 12 'Personifying the Saviour?': English Oratorio and the Representation of the Words of Christ (p. 227)
• 13 The Benefit Concert in Nineteenth-Century London: From 'tax on the nobility' to 'monstrous nuisance' (p. 242)
• Part 7 Analysis and Criticism
• 14 Towards a Tradition of Music Analysis in Britain in the Nineteenth Century (p. 269)
• 15 James William Davison, Critic, Crank and Chronicler: A Re-evaluation (p. 303)
• Index (p. 311)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Allan W. Atlas is Distinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate School of The City University of New York, where he heads the Doctoral Program in Music and the Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments
Stuart Campbell is Lecturer in Music at the University of Glasgow
Catherine Dale is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull
Jeremy Dibble, is Lecturer in Music at University College, Cork
David J. Golby is completing a doctoral thesis at St Hugh's College
Trevor Herbert is Professor of Music and Arts Staff Tutor for Wales at the Open University.
Peter Horton is Acting Reference Librarian and Research Co-ordinator at the Royal College of Music
Richard Kitson is Associate Director of the Center for Studies in Nineteenth-Century Music at the University of Maryland College Park
Simon McVeigh is Professor and Head of Music at Goldsmiths College, University of London
Barbara Mohn gained her MA in musicology, English literature and medieval and modern history at the University of Bonn.
Philip Olleson is Senior Lecturer in Music in the School of Continuing Education of the University of Nottingham
Nicholas Temperley teaches musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Wollenberg is a University Lecturer on the Faculty of Music, at the University of Oxford, teaching at Lady Margaret Hall and (since 1986) Brasenose College
Caroline Wood is Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull
Bennett Zon is Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull