Description
First published in 2006. The social history of music first makes an appearance—even if only sporadically—in treatises which during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave some account of the manners and morals of specific periods, and of these socio-historical writings one of the most comprehensive is Voltaire's Siele de Louis XIV (1751). In this volume the author, without going over too much familiar ground, presents a view of English musical history from the Middle Ages.
Table of Contents
Introductory 1. Music and society in the Middle Ages 2. Renaissance, Reformation and the musical public 3. The eighteenth century 4. Industrial society and the people's music 5. The Victorian era: national education and musical progress 6. 'Fin de Siecle': The ethos of competitive enterprise 7. The modern age: musical culture and the varying pulse of the machine Conclusion
