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Golding, Rosemary
(2012).
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Abstract
Late-nineteenth-century London boasted a wealth of opportunities for aspiring professional musicians to gain musical training and employment. Despite this flourishing musical life, however, status as a professional musician was problematic: often associated with immorality, low social status and poor general education, musicians struggled to define themselves as a profession in the same way that many employment groups had done during the century. The different characters and values of the conservatoires are testimony to such a fragmented profession. This chapter focuses on the definition and function of the conservatoires with respect to contemporary ideas of professionalisation, education and status. In particular, I examine how the conservatoires were compared with the universities in terms of their contributions to professional and social identity, and the problems which complicated their development.
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Proceedings
Music Education in the Conservatories and Musical Life in Nineteenth-century Europe
Milan Conservatory November 28-30, 2008 - Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Music
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
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