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Our ancient national airs : Scottish song collecting from the enlightenment to the romantic era /
Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context. Attention is given to some of the perf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
Ã2013.
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| Colección: | Music in nineteenth-century Britain.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Series Preface; Introduction; 1 'Never hitherto published': Preserving the Highland Heritage; 2 'The aera of Scotish music and Scotish song is now passed': Lowland Song Collecting, c. 1780-1800; 3 'To take down a melody': Travel in Pursuit of Song; 4 'Leaving the world to find out whether they are old or new': Invention or Fakery?; 5 'Which many a bard had chanted many a day': Paratextual Imagery and Metaphors in Romantic Celtic Song Collections.
- 6 Illustrations and Notes: Stenhouse's and Hogg's Quest for Origins, c. 18207 Increasing the Knowledge and Improving the Taste, c. 1830-1850; 8 'The Feelings of a Scotsman' and the Illusion of Origins in the Later Nineteenth Century; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index.