British music, musicians and institutions, c. 1630-1800: essays in honour of Harry Diack Johnstone

Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investigates the themes of composition, performance (amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular in...

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Other Authors: Lynan, Peter ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor), Rushton, Julian 1941- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge The Boydell Press 2021
Series:Music in Britain, 1600-2000
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Summary:Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investigates the themes of composition, performance (amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions
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Henry, Elizabeth, and George: new light on music at Wilton House in the 1770s / Peter Holman -- Wilhelm Cramer, the professional concert, and the foundation of the modern symphony orchestra / Simon McVeigh -- Thomas Vincent (1723-1798): oboist, composer, and entrepreneur / Michael Tolbot -- J.C. Bach's and the "true organ style": propriety and impropriety in eighteenth-century English organ music / Peter Lynan -- Henry Purcell's mad songs in the theatre and concert rooms in the eighteenth century / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson -- From "Fowle original" to "printed for the author": the autograph score of William Croft's "Laurus cruentas" / Alan Howard -- James Lates of Oxford and his sixteen minuets / Susan Wollenberg -- William Hayes (1708-1777), professor of music / Simon Heighes -- Music and musicians at Westminster Abbey, 1685-1760 / Tony Trowles -- Catholic church music in eighteenth-century Britain / John Caldwell -- Precedents for the symphony anthem: British Library additional manuscript 31434 and the court of Charles I / Jonathan P. Wainwright -- "You can't have it of Smith except you'll have it wrote out on purpose": eighteenth-century copyists of Handel's music in London and the "Smith scriptorium" / Donald Burrows -- The earliest surviving engraved music plates? / Peter Ward Jones and Kelly Domoney -- Musica Britannica and the eighteenth century / Julian Rushton
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 291 Seiten)
ISBN:9781800103511
DOI:10.1017/9781800103511

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