General
- Royalty system of payment
- Falling prices of sheet music, 1850-90
- Professional singers crucial to sales promotion
- "Home Sweet Home," class, and audience
- Class division in the audience for opera
- The piano and middle-class prosperity
- Novello's cheap editions of sheet music and the revival of Bach's St Matthew Passion
- Sale of multiple arrangements and translations of a single work
- Copyright and piracy
Technology and the economics of music in Victorian Britain
- Printing technology, the price of sheet music, and amateur musicians
- Printing technology and books of instruction
- Railways and the spread of pianos in British middle-class homes
- Railways and the economics of sheet music
- Commercial concert world develops by 1850
- After 1850 composers increasingly depend on wealthy bourgeoisie and perform, teach, write, and publish as well compe
- popular: from well-known to well-received to successful in terms of sheet music sales to vulgar
- Copyright Act of 1842, royalties, and the professionalization of music
- Star system develops
- Ticket prices used to produce class hierarchy of concerts
- By 1865 London's concert life entirely professional
Promoters
Music Publishers
- H. D'Alcorn & Co.
- Boosey & Co.
- Bremmer
- Chappell & Co.
- Cori
- George Davidson (later The Music Publishing Co.)
- Hutchinson
- Metzler
- Novello
- George Thomson (Edinburgh)
Instrument makers
last modified 11 June 2012