Now in its 40th year, this study day presents new discoveries and research in progress, with the opportunity to network with music researchers and those with an interest in 18th-century music.
The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments, plus admission to the Museum from 10am-5pm. Advance booking is recommended. Find the full programme below, with details of speakers.
10am Registration and refreshments
10:30am Colin Coleman (London) — New members, please: onboarding the early subscribers to the Society of Musicians
11am Philip Winterbottom and Diane Clements (London) — Jacob Kirkman (1710-1792): a financier in Georgian England
11:30am Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Brentwood, Essex) — Johann Christoph Pepusch and Richard Leveridge
12pm Andrew Jones (Cambridge) — Elizabeth Legh: an anecdote, a ‘cantata’, and a hypothesis
12:45pm Performance (Picture Gallery)
1-2pm Lunch and viewing of display Elizabeth Legh: Lover of Musick & All Ingenious Things
2pm Graham Cummings (Huddersfield) — Orfeo (1736): an operatic puzzle
2:30pm Matthias Range (Oxford) — Handel’s ‘Liberty Oratorio’
3pm Thomas McGeary (Champaign, IL) — Music, sensibility, and the man of feeling: a subversive music aesthetic
3:30-4pm Refreshments
4pm Martin Perkins (Birmingham) — The Sharp family’s water music: private performers, private audience, public spectacle
4:30pm Rachel Cowgill (York) — Musical parties public and private: observing music in the journal of Miss Jane Ewbank of York, 1803–1805
5pm Conference ends