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Charles Avison in Context - National and International Musical Links in Eighteenth-Century North-East England (Hardcover)
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Charles Avison in Context - National and International Musical Links in Eighteenth-Century North-East England (Hardcover)
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Despite recent interest in music-making in the so-called
'provinces', the idea still lingers that music-making outside
London was small in scale, second-rate and behind the times.
However, in Newcastle upon Tyne, the presence of a nationally known
musician, Charles Avison (1709-1770), prompts a reassessment of how
far this idea is still tenable. Avison's life and work illuminates
many wider trends. His relationships with his patrons, the
commercial imperatives which shaped his activities, the historical
and social milieu in which he lived and worked, were influenced by
and reflected many contemporary movements: Latitudinarianism,
Methodism, the improvement of church music, the aesthetics of the
day including new ideas circulating in Europe, discussions of
issues such as gentility, and the new commercialism of leisure. He
can be considered as the notional centre of a web of connections,
both musical and non-musical, extending through every part of
Britain and into both Europe and America. This book looks at these
connections, exploring the ways in which the musical culture in the
north-east region interacted with, and influenced, musical culture
elsewhere, and the non-musical influences with which it was
involved, including contemporary religious, philosophical and
commercial developments, establishing that regional centres such as
Newcastle could be as well-informed, influential and vibrant as
London.
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