Olivia Bailey VICTORIAN SONGS AND MUSIC First Edition
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Olivia Bailey VICTORIAN SONGS AND MUSIC First Edition
First edition, first print hardback of EMPIRE OF THE SONG: VICTORIAN SONGS AND MUSIC by Olivia Bailey and published by Caxton Editions, London, in 2002. It includes a FREE CD with 18 songs by Gilbert & Sullivan, Humperdinck, Mendelssohn and more which is still sealed and attached to the inside of the back board.The book is in very good condition (Clean illustrated glossy brown boards with amber lettering on the front and spine), with minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (slight creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
"Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901 and this book outlines the development of popular music over these sixty four years which saw some of the greatest changes in music that Britain has ever seen. It was the time of the British Empire and with it came many cross-cultural influences as well as it being a time of great social change.
The Victorians were vigorous and enthusiastic about life and as a nation were extraordinarily industrious. They wrote huge tomes and novels, travelled across continents, encountering new savage cultures, established trade, invented hundreds of machines including the bicycle, and pushed forward the boundaries of science.
Cloth, pharmaceuticals and steel all poured out of the factories; the railways spread their iron tracks across the countryside. In amongst all the hard work and the sound of factories could be heard the music. Victorian music had to be popular to survive, although this did not hinder great diversity in the forms it took.
From polkas and waltzes at the beginning of Queen Victorias reign, the reintroduction of Christmas Carols through the influence of her German husband Prince Albert, the start of music hall in the 1850s and the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, through the invention of the gramophone in the 1877. Victorian Britain was most definitely the Empire of the Song".
Large format 27.2 x 21 x 2 cm tall. 128 pages. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs, drawings throughout.
ISBN: 1 84067 468 7
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