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128 pages : 28 cm, Queen Victoria's long reign (1837-1901) was a time of both great social change and of the British Empire, with its cross-cultural influences. Both influenced music of the time. From the polkas and waltzes at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign, the reintroduciton of Christmas carols through the influence of her German husband Prince Albert, the start of music halls in the 1850s and the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, to the invention of the gramaphone in 1877, popular music developed more in Britain than at any previous era, Includes index, One CD in pocket attached to inside back cover
- Author
- Bailey, Olivia
- Publisher
- London : Caxton
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781840674682
- Subjects
- Music, History, Arts
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