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Before the Baton - Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain (Hardcover)
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Before the Baton - Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
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How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before
baton conducting took hold in the 1830s? This book investigates the
ways large-scale music was directed or conducted in Britain before
baton conducting took hold in the 1830s. After surveying practice
in Italy, Germany and France from Antiquity to the eighteenth
century,the focus is on direction in two strands of music making in
Stuart and Georgian Britain: choral music from Restoration
cathedrals to the oratorio tradition deriving from Handel, and
music in the theatre from the Jacobean masque to nineteenth-century
opera, ending with an account of how modern baton conducting spread
in the 1830s from the pit of the Haymarket Theatre to the
Philharmonic Society and to large-scale choral music. Part social
and musical history based on new research into surviving performing
material, documentary sources and visual evidence, and part polemic
intended to question the use of modern baton conducting in
pre-nineteenth-century music, Before the Baton throws new light on
many hitherto dark areas, though the heart of the book is an
extended discussion of the evidence relating to Handel's operas,
oratorios and choral music. Contrary to near-universal modern
practice, he mostly preferred to play rather than beat time.
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