A call for papers has gone out and the programme will be published in early October.
There is a registration fee which includes lunch and refreshments, and admission to the Foundling Museum between 10am and 5pm. This is payable in advance at the link above (£20), or registration can be paid on the day (£25).
10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.30 Catherine Harbor (Caistor) — Advertised Harmonies: Examining Concert Repertoire in London’s Pleasure Gardens and Wells, 1690–1750
11.00 Peter Holman (Colchester) — Buried Treasure in Yorkshire: The Taphouse Collection and the Leeds Partbooks
11.40 Michael Busk (Great Yarmouth) — The Three Choirs Festival was not the first
12.00 Carole Taylor (London) — Patronage of Italian Opera in 1730s London: Subscribers to the Nobility Opera and Handel
12.30 Jack Comerford (London) — Handel’s Tenor and Bass: Vocal Hierarchies and Domestic Print Culture
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Caroline Suter (London) — Fougeroux’s travel diary, 1728
14.20 Mary-Jannet Leith (London) — John Gow and his Band: Scottish dance music in late eighteenth-century London
14.50 Simon D.I. Fleming (Durham) — Concert Life in late Eighteenth-Century Calcutta: Recreating British Musical Culture in a Colonial Setting
15.20-15.40 Refreshments
15.40 Alan Howard (Cambridge) — Women at the piano: grand piano sonatas, 1780–1810
16.10 Janette Bright (Chelmsford) — Peering into the Music Teacher’s Room
16.30 Mollie Carlyle (Cambridge) — Did Shanties Begin in the 18th Century? Rethinking Dibdin’s Sailors and Maritime Song
17.00 Conference ends
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