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Music Ethnomusicology

Ideal world of Mrs. Widder's soirée musicale

Music and difference in nineteenth-century Ontario

by (author) Kristina Marie Guiguet

Publisher
Canadian Museum of History
Initial publish date
Jan 2004
Category
Ethnomusicology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781772823714
    Publish Date
    Jan 2004
    List Price
    $21.99

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In 1844, Mrs. Frederick Widder held a soirée musicale in her lavish Toronto home. Both the music and program were standard fare for the time but, for the author, it has implications beyond a single drawing-room extravaganza. Through the study of this elaborate domestic concert, the author reveals the way musical life affected and reflected contemporary values, thoughts and beliefs of the distinct categories of class and gender in pre-Confederation Canadian society.

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