Before the Baton: Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

by Peter Holman

How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s?

This book investigates the ways large-scale music was directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s. After surveying practice in Italy, Germany and France from Antiquity to the eighteenth century, the focus is on direction in two strands of music making in Stuart and Georgian Britain: choral music from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783274565
• ISBN13: 9781783274567
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"