The musical life of nineteenth-century Belfast /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Johnston, Roy, 1924-2012 (Author), Plummer, Declan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2015]
Series:	Music in nineteenth-century Britain.
Subjects:	Music > Social aspects > Northern Ireland > Belfast > History > 19th century. Concerts > Northern Ireland > Belfast > History > 19th century. Concerts. Music > Social aspects. Northern Ireland > Belfast. 1800 - 1899 History.

Table of Contents:

Prelude : The eighteenth-century musical legacy
Edward Bunting in the new century
The Anacreontic Society : an eighteenth-century throwback
Opera in a blighted theatre
Concert life in the 1840s and 1850s : The Anacreontic Society in its music hall
Concert life in the 1840s and 1850s : to god be the glory : the rise of the choral societies
Concert life in the 1840s and 1850s : welcome visitors
Edmund Thomas Chipp and the building of the Ulster Hall
Concert life after Chipp
Opera and the return of theatrical respectability
Concert life in the philharmonic era, 1874-99
Carl Rosa and the gilded elephants
Conclusion : fertile soil and stony ground.