TY - BOOK ID - 77917753 TI - Music and Institutions in nineteenth-century Britain PY - 2012 SN - 1317092473 1317092465 1283629615 9786613942067 1409453561 9781409453567 6613942065 9781283629614 9781409405832 1409405834 9781315596624 9781317092452 9781317092469 9781138268234 1315596628 9781317092476 PB - Farnham, Surrey, UK England Burlington, VT, USA Ashgate Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Music KW - Clubs, Musical KW - Music clubs KW - Music societies KW - Musical clubs KW - Musical societies KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Societies, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77917753 AB - In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introduction of music into powerful institutions, both out of belief in music's inherently beneficial properties, and also to promote music occupations and professions in society at large. This book provides a representative and varied sample of the interactions between music and organizations in various locations in the nineteenth-century British Empire, exploring not only how and why music was institutionalized, but also how and why institu ER -