The ideal world of Mrs. Widder's soirée musicale : social identity and musical life in nineteenth-century Ontario /

The ideal world of Mrs. Widder's soirée musicale : social identity and musical life in nineteenth-century Ontario /

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"The printed program of Mrs. Widder's 1844 Soiree Musicale, a formal concert at her lavish Toronto home, lists eleven musicians performing opera, parlour ballads, and glees. This information helped trace the networks which drew a working tenor and leisured Lady and Gentlemen Amateurs into...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guiguet, Kristina Marie, 1953-
Corporate Author: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, ©2004.
Series:Mercury series.
Cultural studies paper (Canadian Museum of Civilization) ; 77.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Performance practice (Music)Ontario > Toronto > 19th century.
Music > Social aspects > Ontario > Toronto > History > 19th century.
Amusements > Ontario > Toronto > History > 19th century.
Performance practice (Music) > Ontario > Toronto > History.
Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire.
Musique > Aspect social > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Spectacles et divertissements > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Performance practice (Music)
Amusements
Manners and customs
Music > Social aspects
Toronto (Ont.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Toronto (Ont.) > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Ontario > Toronto
History
Table of Contents:
  • Overture : Mrs. Widder's drawing room, March 12, 1844
  • Ch. 1. The scrambled kaleidoscope : historiography of the Ontario Soiree Musicale
  • Ch. 2. Programming politics : musical and thematic structure of Mrs. Widder's program
  • Ch. 3. Mr. Widder sat silent while other men sang : musical genre, masculinity, and class
  • Ch. 4. Mrs. Widder sang awfully well : the dignified struggle of the lady amateur
  • Ch. 5. Singing tight her chains : Miss Hagerman, Mrs. Widder's exceptional lady amateur
  • Encore : turning the kaleidoscope : evolving patterns of meaning 1844-1907
  • App. 1. Lyrics of Mrs. Widder's 1844 program
  • App. 2. Lyrics of Mr. Humphrys' 1851 program.

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