Books

 (some of the older books can be found online at www.archive.org )

Books that include discussions of Victorian English opera 

Books about those involved in Victorian English opera

Books that include discussions on  Victorian English opera

Biddlecombe, George. English opera from 1834 to 1864 with particular reference to the works of Michael Balfe. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Caldwell, John. The Oxford History of English Music. Volume II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Cecil, George. The History of Opera in England. Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, 1930.

Davey, Henry.  History of English Music. London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1895.

Day, James.  'Englishness' in Music. London: Thames Publishing, 1999.

Eden, David. Sullivan’s Ivanhoe. Saffron Walden, UK:  Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, 2007.

Forsyth, Cecil.  Music and Nationalism. London: Macmillan & Company Ltd., 1911.

Fuller Maitland, J.A. English Music in the XIX Century.  London: Grant Richards, 1902.

Goddard, Joseph.  The rise and development of opera.  London: W. Reeves, 1911.

Hueffer, Francis.  Half a Century of Music in England. London: Chapman and Hall, 1889.

Klein, Herman. The Golden Age of Opera. New York: De Capo, 1979.

Parry, C. Hubert H.  Style in Musical Art. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1900.

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed.,  London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2001. It is also available online at
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_gmo

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.  London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1992. Available online at  http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_gmo

Samson, Jim, ed. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Music, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Sawyer, F.J.  “English Opera after Purcell”.  in English Music.  ed. Frederick J. Crowest, pp 264-292.  London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., 1906.

Stradling, Robert and Hughes, Meirion.  The English Musical Renaissance, 1860-1940.  London: Routledge, 1993.

Taruskin, Richard. Music in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.  Part of the Oxford History of Western Music.

Temperley, Nicholas, ed..  The Romantic Age, 1800-1914. London: The Athlone Press, 1981, reissued as The Blackwell History of Music in Britain, Vol. 5, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Temperley, Nicholas, ed.  The Lost Chord. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989.

The British Music Society.  British Opera in Retrospect.  Upminster, Essex, UK:  The British Music Society, 1985.

Walker, Ernest.  History of Music in England.  Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1907.

White, Eric.W.  The history of English Opera.  London: Faber & Faber, 1983.

Books about those involved in Victorian English opera

Barnett, John .F. Musical Reminiscences and impressions, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.

Bunn, Alfred. The Stage: both before and behind the curtain. London: Richard Bentley, 1840.

Cox, John E.  Musical Recollections of the past half century.  Volumes 1 & 2. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872.

Davison, Henry, ed.  From Mendelssohn to Wagner: Memoirs of J.W. Davison. London: W.M.Reeves, 1912.

Fitzball, Edward.  Thirty Five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life.  London: T.C. Newby, 1859.

Gratton Flood, W.H. William Vincent Wallace.  Waterford: The Waterford News, 1912.

Lamb, Andrew.

Kenney, Charles L.  A  Memoir of Michael William Balfe.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1978.

Pearce, Charles E. Sims Reeves : fifty years of music in England.  London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1924.

Phelan, Robert.  William Vincent Wallace. Waterford: Celtic Publications, 1994.

Reeves, Sims.  My Jubilee.  London: The London Music Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1888.

Reeves, Sims.  Sims Reeves, His Life and Recollections.  London:  Simpkin Marshall & Co. and  The London Music Publishing Co., 1888.

Santley, Charles. Student and Singer. London: Edward Arnold, 1893.

Spark, William. Musical reminiscences : past and present. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1892.

Spark, William. Musical memories. London: W.Reeves, 19__.

Sullivan, Herbert and Newman Flower.  Sir Arthur Sullivan.  London: Cassell and Company Ltd.,1927.

Tyldesley, William.  Michael William Balfe: his life and English operas. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2003.

Walsh, Basil.  Michael W. Balfe.  Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008.

Willis, Nathaniel P. Memoranda of the life of Jenny Lind, Philadelphia: Robert E. Peterson, 1851.  Includes a short chapter on Julius Benedict.