Ideal world of Mrs. Widder's soirée musicale : Music and difference in nineteenth-century Ontario /

"The printed program of Mrs. Widder's 1844 Soiree Musicale, a formal concert at her lavish Toronto home, lists eleven musicians performing opera, parlour ballads, and glees. This information helped trace the networks which drew a working tenor and leisured Lady and Gentlemen Amateurs into...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guiguet, Kristina Marie, 1953-
Corporate Author: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Performance practice (Music)
Music > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Amusements.
Spectacles et divertissements > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Musique > Aspect social > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Pratique de l'execution (Musique) > Ontario > Toronto > 19e siecle.
Amusements > Ontario > Toronto > History > 19th century.
Music > Social aspects > Ontario > Toronto > History > 19th century.
Performance practice (Music) > Ontario > Toronto > History > 19th century.
Ontario > Toronto.
Toronto (Ont.) > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle.
Toronto (Ont.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The printed program of Mrs. Widder's 1844 Soiree Musicale, a formal concert at her lavish Toronto home, lists eleven musicians performing opera, parlour ballads, and glees. This information helped trace the networks which drew a working tenor and leisured Lady and Gentlemen Amateurs into a brilliant program balancing aesthetics with social politics. The Widder program reveals how conventions linking class and gender with musical genre and local issues shaped the meaning of musical life both public and private. The Soiree Musicale, a concert form transplanted from imperial London, was the embodiment of an idealized hierarchical universe."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (172 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9781772823714

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