Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Music in American Life
ISBN-10
0252075951
ISBN-13
9780252075957
Edition
New
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 8th, 2008
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 22.00 x 1.90 cms
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Classical styleMusic
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Documents the lives, careers, and music of three British composers, William Selby of London and Boston (1738-98), Rayner Taylor of London and Philadelphia (1745-1825), and George K Jackson of St Andrews, New York, and Boston (1757-1822) who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the musical life of the American Federal era.
Nicholas Temperley documents the lives, careers, and music of three British composers who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the musical life of the early United States. William Selby of London and Boston (1738-98), Rayner Taylor of London and Philadelphia (1745-1825), and George K. Jackson of London, New York, and Boston (1757-1822) were among the first trained professional composers to make their home in America and to pioneer the building of an art music tradition in the New World akin to the esteemed European classical music. Why, in middle age, would they emigrate and start over in uncertain and unfavorable conditions? How did the new environment affect them personally and musically? Temperley compares their lives, careers, and compositional styles in the two countries and reflects on American musical nationalism and the changing emphasis in American musical historiography.
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