Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London

ISBN-13: 9781032088044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 136 str.

Cheryll Duncan

Opis

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in mid-eighteenth-century London explores Giardini’s influence on British musical life through his multifaceted career as performer, teacher, composer, concert promoter and opera impresario.

Spis treści

Contents

 

Introduction

1 The documents

2 Biographies

3 Early collaborations

 

4 Cox and Giardini in court

5 Giardini’s account at Cox’s music shop

Conclusion

Appendices

O autorze

Cheryll Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. Her primary research interests concern music culture in Britain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on records of the equity and common-law courts. She has published articles in Cambridge Opera Journal, Early Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Opera Journal, and Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, and has contributed a chapter to Geminiani Studies, ed. Christopher Hogwood.