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When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway journeys; those that celebrate the opening...

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Έκδοση: University of Huddersfield Press 2022
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-529322022-02-19T02:50:39Z Railways & Music Winterson, Julia steam railways, music, orchestral, popular, worksongs, blues, railroads, nineteenth twentieth century bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVG Music: styles & genres::AVGC Western "classical" music::AVGC6 20th century & contemporary classical music bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WG Transport: general interest::WGF Trains & railways: general interest bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WQ Local interest, family history & nostalgia::WQN Nostalgia: general bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TR Transport technology & trades::TRF Railway technology, engineering & trades::TRFT Railway trades bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway journeys; those that celebrate the opening of a new line; worksongs and blues describing the hardship of building the railroads, even the first use of sampled music used railway sounds as its source. The railway has inspired countless pieces of music from the pastoral serenity of the Flanders and Swann song ‘Slow train’ to the shrieking horror of holocaust trains in Steve Reich’s Different Trains. This is the first book to give a comprehensive coverage of music connected with the railways. In the nineteenth century, thousands of miles of railway lines transformed time, space and distance. Across Europe composers celebrated with music such as waltzes and polkas, cantatas, piano pieces and saucy music hall songs. Moving into the twentieth century, iconic twentieth-century works, such as Britten’s Night Mail and Honegger’s Pacific 231, captured the sounds of locomotives. Railways and trains are so deeply ingrained in the popular imagination that they feature in hundreds, possibly thousands, of popular songs. In North America, early railroad songs told of hoboes, heroes, villains, and train wrecks and the sounds of the railroad were heard in boogie-woogie, blues, gospel, jazz, and rock music. In total, this book describes over 50 pieces of classical music and covers more than 250 popular songs. 2022-02-18T13:02:12Z 2022-02-18T13:02:12Z 2022 book 9781862182028 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52932 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 10.5920_railways.fulltext.pdf https://unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/books/29/ University of Huddersfield Press 3837d63e-33c8-4358-b3b3-cd8b4c0ae5a1 9781862182028 308 Huddersfield open access
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description When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway journeys; those that celebrate the opening of a new line; worksongs and blues describing the hardship of building the railroads, even the first use of sampled music used railway sounds as its source. The railway has inspired countless pieces of music from the pastoral serenity of the Flanders and Swann song ‘Slow train’ to the shrieking horror of holocaust trains in Steve Reich’s Different Trains. This is the first book to give a comprehensive coverage of music connected with the railways. In the nineteenth century, thousands of miles of railway lines transformed time, space and distance. Across Europe composers celebrated with music such as waltzes and polkas, cantatas, piano pieces and saucy music hall songs. Moving into the twentieth century, iconic twentieth-century works, such as Britten’s Night Mail and Honegger’s Pacific 231, captured the sounds of locomotives. Railways and trains are so deeply ingrained in the popular imagination that they feature in hundreds, possibly thousands, of popular songs. In North America, early railroad songs told of hoboes, heroes, villains, and train wrecks and the sounds of the railroad were heard in boogie-woogie, blues, gospel, jazz, and rock music. In total, this book describes over 50 pieces of classical music and covers more than 250 popular songs.
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