Before the Baton: Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

Peter Holman

doi:10.1017/9781787446304

Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

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Peter Holman

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: September 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781787446304
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787446304

Subjects:: Music, Music: General Interest
Series:: Music in Britain, 1600-2000

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Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-xii

Foreword
pp xiii-xvi

Acknowledgements
pp xvii-xvii

Note to the Reader
pp xviii-xviii

List of Abbreviations
pp xix-xxiv

Prelude To Beat or Not to Beat: The Continental Context
pp 1-40

Part I - Directing Choral Music
pp 41-42

Chapter 1 - ‘Heard but not Seen’: Leading Anglican Cathedral Music from the Organ
pp 43-68

Chapter 2 - ‘With a Scroll of Parchment or Paper, in Hand’: Large- Scale Choral Music
pp 69-110

Chapter 3 - ‘Accompanied all along on the Organ by his Own Inimitable Hand’: Handel and the Direction of his Oratorios
pp 111-140

Chapter 4 - ‘The Conductor at the Organ’: The Oratorio Tradition after Handel
pp 141-178

Part II - Directing Opera and Theatre Music
pp 179-180

Chapter 5 - ‘That Ridiculous Custom’: From Devolved Direction to Centralized Time-Beating in Seventeenth-Century Theatre Music
pp 181-214

Chapter 6 - ‘Il maestro al cembalo’: Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Harpsichord
pp 215-252

Chapter 7 - ‘A New Discipline and a New Style of Playing’: Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Violin
pp 253-292

Chapter 8 - ‘That Powerful Sovereign, the Conductor’: From the Piano to the Rostrum
pp 293-346

Postlude Superconductors or Semiconductors? Lessons for Today
pp 347-356

Bibliography
pp 357-387

Index
pp 388-405

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 406-408

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