Until the nineteenth century, music occupied a marginal place in British universities. Degrees were awarded by Oxford and Cambridge, but students (and often pro

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means a

The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authorit

Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisa