Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Introduction; I: Music Societies and Venues; 1: The Management of Nineteenth-Century Dublin Music Societies in the Public and Private Spheres: The Philharmonic Society and the Dublin Musical Society; 2: Three Madrigal Societies in Early Nineteenth-Century England; 3: 'A Melodious Phenomenon': The Institutional Influence on Town-Hall Music-Making; 4: A Home for the 'Phil': Liverpool's First Philharmonic Hall (1849); 5: James Mapleson and the 'National Opera House'; II: Music Education; 6: Musical Diplomacy and Mary Gladstone's Diary; 7: The Expansion and Development of the Music Degree Syllabus at Trinity College Dublin during the Nineteenth Century; 8: The Music Exams of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1859-1919; 9: Resisting the Empire? Public Music Examinations in Melbourne, 1896-1914; III: Music and the State; 10: Birmingham Cathedral, Royle Shore and the Revival of Early English Church Music; 11: On the Beat: The Victorian Policeman as Musician 1; 12: The British Military as a Musical Institution, c. 1780 - c. 1860; 13: Edward Jones, 'Bard to the King': The Crown, Welsh National Music, and Identity in Late Georgian Britain