LEADER 02902nam 2200385 450 001 9910547689703321 005 20221125142731.0 010 $a1-86218-203-5 035 $a(CKB)5840000000005201 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78417 035 $a(EXLCZ)995840000000005201 100 $a20220302d2021 uu| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRailways & music /$fJulia Winterson 210 $aHuddersfield$cUniversity of Huddersfield Press$d2022 210 1$aHuddersfield :$cUniversity of Huddersfield Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (iv, 307 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781862182028 1862182027 320 $aIncludes bibliographic references and index. 330 $aWhen 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. 517 3 $aRailways and music 606 $aRailroads$xSongs and music 610 $asteam railways, music, orchestral, popular, worksongs, blues, railroads, nineteenth twentieth century 615 0$aRailroads$xSongs and music. 676 $a781.59 700 $aWinterson$b Julia$01266178 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910547689703321 996 $aRailways & music$92968854 997 $aUNINA