British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800: Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone

doi:10.1017/9781800103511

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 institutions.

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British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800

Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-x

List of Music Examples
pp xi-xii

List of Contributors
pp xiii-xvi

Acknowledgements
pp xvii-xviii

List of Abbreviations
pp xix-xx

Note to the Reader
pp xxi-xxii

Introduction
pp 1-6

Part I - Performers and Performance Style
pp 7-8

1 - Henry, Elizabeth, and George: New Light on Music at Wilton House in the 1770s
pp 9-31

2 - Wilhelm Cramer, the Professional Concert, and the Foundation of the Modern Symphony Orchestra
pp 32-53

3 - Thomas Vincent (1723–1798): Oboist, Composer, and Entrepreneur
pp 54-71

4 - J.C. Bach and the ‘true Organ Style’: Propriety and Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century English Organ Music
pp 72-88

Part II - Composers and Secular Institutions
pp 89-90

5 - Henry Purcell’s Mad Songs in the Theatre and Concert Rooms in the Eighteenth Century
pp 91-105

6 - From ‘Fowle Originall’ to ‘Printed for the Author’: The Autograph Score of William Croft’s ‘Laurus cruentas’
pp 106-128

7 - James Lates of Oxford and his Sixteen Minuets
pp 129-142

8 - William Hayes (1708–1777), Professor of Music
pp 143-164

Part III - Sacred Music and Institutions
pp 165-166

9 - Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey, 1685–1760
pp 167-182

10 - Catholic Church Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain
pp 183-198

11 - Precedents for the Symphony Anthem: British Library Additional Manuscript 31434 and the Court of Charles I
pp 199-222

Part IV - Dissemination: Copying, Printing, and Publishing
pp 223-224

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’
pp 225-239

13 - The Earliest Surviving Engraved Music Plates?
pp 240-262

Epilogue: Musica Britannica and the Eighteenth Century
pp 263-276

Harry Diack Johnstone: A Tribute
pp 277-278

Bibliography of the Publications of Harry Diack Johnstone
pp 279-282

Index
pp 283-290

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