Classical Music (1750-1830)

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading Gluck scholars which highlight the best of recent and classic contributions to Gluck scholarship, many of which are now difficult to access. Tracing Gluck’s life, career and legacy, the essays offer a variety of innovatory approaches to the majo..

This volume brings together a selection of the most stimulating and influential writing on Haydn and his music in the English language. Written by a range of established and younger scholars the previously published articles probe a variety of aesthetic, biographical, compositional, performance and ..

This volume of essays brings together the best of recent scholarship on J.C. Bach, the youngest son of J.S. Bach and a friend and mentor of Mozart. The selected articles represent the principal themes of scholarly research and writing over the past fifty years, including one article published as rec..

This volume brings together a selection of key writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years which have transformed scholarly awareness of this crucial and ever-popular nineteenth-century composer and musician. The volume also includes a specially commissioned introductory chapter as well as new..

This volume of essays on Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years. The studies are broad and focused, demonstrating a large number of viewpoints, methodologies and orientations and the material spans a wide range of subject areas. Written by leading researchers from Europe ..

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was the British philosophy of the..

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was the British philosophy of the..

The history of music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr is both rich and intriguing; its large repertory of music was composed expressly for young female voices by important composers working within significant contemporary musical genres: liturgical chant, sacred motets, theatrical mu..

The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register. ..

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain..

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain..

The period 1700-1900, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British musical history, while research into British music of the period has tended to concentrate on London. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that by 1750 Britain had a highly distinctive mus..