Full Description
This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.
Music in North-East England provides a wide-ranging exploration of musical life in the North-East of England during the early modern period. It contributes to a growing number of studies concerned with developing a nationwide account of British musical culture. By defining the North-East in its widest sense, the collection illuminates localised differences, distinct musical cultures in urban centres and rural locations, as well as region-wide networks, and situates regional musical life in broader national and international contexts. Music in North-East England affords new insights into aspects of musical life that have been the focus of previous studies of British musical life - such as public concerts - but also draws attention to aspects that have attracted less scholarly attention in histories of early modern British musical culture: the musical activities and tastes of non-elite consumers; interactions between art music and cheap print and popular song; music education beyond London and its satellite environs; the recovery of northern urban soundscapes; and the careers of professional musicians who have not previously been the focus of major published musicological studies.
Contents
Introduction - Kirsten Gibson and Stephanie Carter and Roz Southey
'All Mynstralles betwene the Ryvers of Trent & Twede...yerely resorte vnto this towne and Borough of Beverley': Examining the Evidence for Beverley as the Late-Medieval and Early Modern Centre for Professional Musicians in the North-East - Diana Wyatt
Recovering the Soundscape of pre-Reformation Newcastle upon Tyne - Magnus Williamson
The Selection, Acquisition and Performance of Handel's English Odes and Oratorios in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Durham - Matthew Gardner
Compositional Activity in Durham City 1750-1810: Its Influences and Impact - Simon D. I. Fleming
'I esteem my lot fortunate, in residing in this happy country': Edward Miller, Social Networking and Music Making in Eighteenth-Century Doncaster - Christopher Roberts
The York Antiphonal: History, Liturgy and Use in the Late Fifteenth Century - Eleanor Warren
Tunes for Violin or Recorder Collected in North-East England and London in the Late Seventeenth Century: The Provenance and Contents of the Blakiston Manuscript (GB-Lbl Add. MA 17853) - Andrew Woolley
From Newcastle upon Tyne to Colonial Carolina: Transatlantic Tune Transmission and Durham Hills's The Cashaway Psalmody (1770) - Stephen A. Marini
Schoolboy Performance in the post-Reformation North-East - Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Amateur Music Making Amongst the Mercantile Community of Newcastle upon Tyne from the 1690s to the 1750s - Stephanie Carter - Kirsten Gibson
The Household Band of the Bowes of Gibside, County Durham, 1722-1760: Configuration, Repertoire, Training and Use - Roz Southey
William Shield's A Collection of Favourite Songs (c.1775) - Amélie Addison
Between the Broadside Ballad and the Folksong: Print and Popular Songs in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle upon Tyne - Barbara Crosbie
'Canny Newcassel': Marshall's Musical Metropolis of North Britain - Oskar Cox Jensen
