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Title British music, musicians and institutions, c.1630-1800 : essays in honour of Harry Diack Johnstone / edited by Peter Lynan and Julian Rushton
Published Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2021

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Series Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Music in Britain, 1600-2000.
Contents Introduction -- <i>Peter Lynan and Julian Rushton</i><br><b>Part I. Performers and Performance Style</b><br>1. Henry, Elizabeth, and George: New Light on Music at Wilton House in the 1770s -- <i>Peter Holman </i><br>2. Wilhelm Cramer, the Professional Concert, and the Foundation of the Modern Symphony Orchestra -- <i>Simon McVeigh</i><br>3. Thomas Vincent (1723-1798): Oboist, Composer, and Entrepreneur -- <i>Michael Talbot</i><br>4. J.C. Bach and the 'true Organ Style': Propriety and Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century English Organ Music -- <i>Peter Lynan</i><br><b>Part II. Composers and Secular Institutions</b><br>5. Henry Purcell's Mad Songs in the Theatre and Concert Rooms in the Eighteenth Century -- <i>Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson</i><br>6. From 'Fowle Originall' to 'Printed for the Author': The Autograph Score of William Croft's 'Laurus cruentas' -- <i>Alan Howard</i><br>7. James Lates of Oxford and his Sixteen Minuets -- <i>Susan Wollenberg</i><br>8. William Hayes (1708-1777), Professor of Music -- <i>Simon Heighes</i><br><b>Part III. Sacred Music and Institutions</b><br>9. Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey, 1685-1760 -- <i>Tony Trowles</i><br>10. Catholic Church Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- <i>John Caldwell</i><br>11. Precedents for the Symphony Anthem: British Library Additional Manuscript 31434 and the Court of Charles I -- <i>Jonathan P. Wainwright</i><br><b> Part IV. Dissemination: Printing and Publishing</b><br>12. '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' -- <i>Donald Burrows</i><br>13. The Earliest Surviving Engraved Music Plates? -- <i>Peter Ward Jones and Kelly Domoney</i><br>Epilogue: <i>Musica Britannica</i> and the Eighteenth Century -- <i>Julian Rushton</i><br>Harry Diack Johnstone: A Tribute<br>Bibliography of the Works of Harry Diack Johnstone<br>Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 09, 2021)
Subject Music -- Great Britain -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Music -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Musicians -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Musicians -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
Music
Music -- Social aspects
Musicians
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Johnstone, H. Diack, honouree
Lynan, Peter, editor, author
Rushton, Julian, editor, author
ISBN 9781800103511
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9781800103528
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