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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 36–65.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Amy Dunagin The first two sustained efforts to chronicle the history of English music were conducted independently during the 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Tudway and Roger North. They wrote in the context of the escalating popularity of Italian opera in England. Their histories also resonated...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 38–55.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of letters. Despite Johnson’s own lack of interest in music, he was willing to aid his friend with his magnum opus: a history of music that would eventually extend to four volumes. And that assistance included ghostwriting: enlisting Johnson as his uncredited collaborator was the ultimate proof of Burney’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 152–169.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of her father’s A General History of
Music, she represents this as a literary rather than a musical achievement:
she writes that “the literary world seemed lled with its praise” She
reinterprets Charles’s musical career in a manner that elides the technical
expertise resulting from his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and the second half with the late nineteenth cen-
tury, dark, nightmarish, mystical” (281). Naroditskaya inherits the same design,
and it serves her well.
To conclude, this fascinating book offers an approach to Russian music
history that meaningfully connects the better-known Russian masterpieces...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 January 2001
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Pugh, David. Schiller’s Early Dramas: A Critical History (Rochester, N.Y. &
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000). Pp. xxx + 231. $59. ISBN 1-
157113-153-1
Richards, Annette. The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque. New Perspectives
in Music...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... York: Garland, 1989), 369. 29. R. S. Crane, “The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones ,” in Critics and Criticism , ed. Crane (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1952), 616 – 47. 30. See Robert Freeman, “The Travels of Partenope ,” in Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., and it lacks ground plans showing the park’s trans-
formation over time. Rather, by skillfully weaving together several different fields
of inquiry, including the sociology of art, technological studies, material culture,
and music history, she proposes a compelling analogy between the creation...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 81–86.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., Spanish, German, and Russian,
remarking at times on “Anglicisms” in French verse or instances of “Scwabian
dialect” in German prose. He moves with admirable ease from the history of
ideas to the history of music to the history of literature, with occasional intel-
ligent forays into the visual arts...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 36–67.
Published: 01 September 2016
... unaware that
his trip was the beginning of an English feud over the dangers of music,
the ideas of Montesquieu, and the effect of climate on character, a feud that
would end with a man getting stabbed. It is an unexamined (and in some
ways bizarre) episode in the history of ideas that nevertheless...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 81–97.
Published: 01 April 2008
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tified to Scotland’s existence as a separate cultural entity, with its own lit-
erature, its own history, and its own musical heritage. Lord Seafield, Scot-
land’s last lord chancellor, used a telling figure of speech to define what was
being lost in the union with England and the disbanding...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Ashley Cataldo Throughout the eighteenth century, the oblong octavo format had a specific variety of uses. Held horizontally, oblong books were almost exclusively used for printed and manuscript music, and printed music books frequently contain manuscript additions by amateur musicians, as well...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2010
... through the agency of a substantially oral popular culture. Accord-
ing to the assumptions of conjectural history — itself a major Scottish preoc-
cupation — the past might be older and more alien than the inherited models
implied, but Scottish traditional music could still access...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 83–100.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Charles Burney, A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period , 4 vols. (London: Robson and Clark, 1776–89), 4:304. 5. Henry Fielding, The Grub-Street Opera , in Plays, vol. 2: 1731 – 1734 , ed. Thomas Lockwood (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007), 94. 6. Edgar Roberts...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 66–70.
Published: 01 April 2015
... how, while still a very young
woman, Anne developed the passion for the arts that she brought to her official
role, and so to her country. In Winn’s exposition of specific examples of paint-
ing, poetry, or music against history and biography, the issues are sometimes
painfully personal. Thus...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2018
... as an intensely “connected” writer who rst and foremost
wrote from, to, and about her family. To scholars in the elds of literature,
history, classics, music, and art history who study the lives and works of
“minor” Burneys, we aim to signpost the resources available for studying
these gures, and pro...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to the queen in her later years; she shows how this bond is represented by gifts given and received, by furniture and musical instruments bought from the royals and displayed or played in the Papendiek home, and by occasions upon which she stands proxy for the queen. Papendiek exploits her connection...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
...-
cism and art history is remarkable. Trained as a literary scholar, Paulson
can draw an extended contrast between Turner and Constable as landscape
painters in one book, and take up the visual comedy of Rowlandson in
another, while his articles address modern painters as disparate as Balthus...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 170–186.
Published: 01 April 2018
... women—literature, languages, history, religion, and wom-
Eighteenth-Century Life
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 116–134.
Published: 01 September 2021
... with monastic institutions in eighteenth-century Austria. It was a form of musical entertainment clearly favored by Abbot Kollmann for whom a number of examples were commissioned from various composers throughout his career. 4 The allegorical Latin libretto of Haydn's cantata, entitled Jubilaeum Virtutis...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2010
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studies have demonstrated. In Radimisto (1720), Handel’s first opera for the
Royal Academy of Music, for which Haym certainly adapted the libretto,
it is clear that Handel suggested significant changes to his collaborator;
Andrew Jones has recently addressed similar issues concerning Haym’s...
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