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Ian Taylor, Music in London and the Myth of Decline: From Haydn to the Philharmonic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). xiv+208 pp. £55.00. - Colin Timothy Eatock, Mendelssohn and Victorian England (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009). xi+189 pp. £49.50. - Charles Edward McGuire. Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). xxiii+240 pp. £53.00.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 May 2012
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- Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1: Theoretical and Critical Contexts in Nineteenth-Century Performance Practice , June 2012 , pp. 131 - 135
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1 Das Land ohne Musik: englische Gesellschaftsprobleme was the title of Oskar A. H. Schmitz's 1914 book about Britain's national identity (Munich: Georg Müller, 1914). The phrase came to represent Britain's long-standing view of its own music. See Nicholas Temperley, ‘Introduction: The State of Research on Victorian Music’, in The Lost Chord: Essays on Victorian Music, ed. Nicholas Temperley (Bloomington, 1989): 5–6Google Scholar; and Robert Stradling and Meirion Hughes, The English Musical Renaissance 1840–1940: Constructing a National Music (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001): 83–111Google Scholar.