The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast
- Author: Johnston, Roy
- Author: Plummer, Declan
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction
- Prelude: the 18th-century musical legacy
- Edward Bunting in the new century
- The Anacreontic Society: an 18th-century throwback
- Opera in a blighted theatre
- Concert life in the 1840s and 1850s: the Anacreontic Society in its music hall
- Concert life in the 1840s and 1850s: to God be the glory - The rise of the choral societies
- Concert life in the 1840s and 1850s: welcome visitors
- Edmund Thomas Chipp and the building of the Ulster Hall
- Concert life after Chipp
- Opera and the return of theatrical respectability
- Concert life in the philharmonic era, 1874-99
- Carl Rosa and the gilded elephants
- Conclusion: fertile soil and stony ground
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.