The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920

Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Contributors investigate the ways in which musicians viewed their own identities, public perceptions of the working musician, the statuses of diffe

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Rosemary Golding is a staff tutor and senior lecturer in Music at the Open University. She has published on the history of music as an academic subject in nineteenth-century Britain as well as institutional and professional identities in music. Current research interests also include the relationship between music and health in nineteenth-century Britain, with a particular focus on the uses of music in lunatic asylums.

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Introduction Rosemary Golding

1. The Finances, Estates, and Social Status of Musicians in the Late Eighteenth Century Rebecca Gribble

2. Composers and Publishers in Clementi's London David Rowland

3. Professionalization and the Female Musician in Early Victorian Britain: the Campaign for Eliza Salmon David Kennerley

4. The British Army and the Music Profession: the Impact of Regimental Bands on the Status and Identity of Professional Musicians Helen Barlow

5. Church Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Durham Martin V. Clarke

6. The Rise of the Professional Music Critic in Nineteenth-Century England Paul Watt

7. Music Teaching in the Late-Nineteenth Century: a Professional Occupation? Rosemary Golding

8. Women Musicians and Professionalism in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries Sophie Fuller

9. Musicians, Singers and Other Artistes as Workers in the British Music Hall 1900-1918 John Mullen

10. Building a Concert Career in Edwardian London Simon McVeigh