Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain is written by David Wyn Jones and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351557416 (ISBN 10) and 9781351557412 (ISBN 13).

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed Handel and London as its primary constituents.