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Explores the breadth, diversity and significance of the commercial music trade and its communities across Britain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Adding to the existing scholarship on music publishers and instrument makers, mostly based in London and the university cities, the collection challenges this historiography by offering the first collective narrative for the commercial trade in musical goods and services - including the printing, publishing and sale of printed music, the sale of manuscript music, musical instruments and related wares, and the tuning and general maintenance of musical instruments such as organs and pianos.
Contributions draw on evidence from across the country of the trade's activities, networks and communities, and recognize the significance of small cities, market towns and regional hubs in cultural dissemination. The Music Trade in Regional Britain therefore contributes to a growing body of work offering a nationwide account of musical culture. It foregrounds a trade that was far more geographically dispersed, economically significant and culturally broad than has previously been acknowledged.
CONTRIBUTORS: Stephanie Carter, Simon D.I. Fleming, David Griffiths, Nancy A. Mace, Martin Perkins, Christopher Roberts, Roz Southey, Matthew Spring, Robert Thompson
Adding to the existing scholarship on music publishers and instrument makers, mostly based in London and the university cities, the collection challenges this historiography by offering the first collective narrative for the commercial trade in musical goods and services - including the printing, publishing and sale of printed music, the sale of manuscript music, musical instruments and related wares, and the tuning and general maintenance of musical instruments such as organs and pianos.
Contributions draw on evidence from across the country of the trade's activities, networks and communities, and recognize the significance of small cities, market towns and regional hubs in cultural dissemination. The Music Trade in Regional Britain therefore contributes to a growing body of work offering a nationwide account of musical culture. It foregrounds a trade that was far more geographically dispersed, economically significant and culturally broad than has previously been acknowledged.
CONTRIBUTORS: Stephanie Carter, Simon D.I. Fleming, David Griffiths, Nancy A. Mace, Martin Perkins, Christopher Roberts, Roz Southey, Matthew Spring, Robert Thompson
Price: $120.00
Pages: 254
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Boydell Press
Publication Date:
10 June 2025
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781783277940
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MUSIC / History & Criticism, History of music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Music reviews and criticism
The book thus provides a refreshingly rounded perspective on the many ways in which the music trade in Britain in this period was intertwined with musical culture in its towns and cities. The collection gives us some tantalizing glimpses of who those people were and how the commercial music trade facilitated their music-making across Britain's regions. It is to be hoped that the book will encourage future research into this 'burgeoning national historiography of British musical life'.
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List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. London and Beyond: Rethinking a Nation's Trade in Music - Stephanie Carter and Simon D.I. Fleming
2. Musick's Hand-maid in Westmorland: A Story of the Music Trade in Early Modern England - Stephanie Carter
3. Rul'd paper for Musick': How long was the reach of the Playfords? - Robert Thompson
4. The Music Trade in York, 1650-1800: Proprietors and Purchasers - David Griffiths
5. Joseph Barber of Newcastle upon Tyne and William Flackton of Canterbury: Booksellers, Music Publishing and the Subscription Market in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Simon D.I. Fleming
6. Distributing Irish Reprints in England: The Activities of Liverpool's John Bridge Pye - Nancy A. Mace
7. Edward Miller of Doncaster: The Composer and the Music Trade - Christopher Roberts
8. Thomas Underwood and his Successors: The Music Shops of Eighteenth-Century Bath- Matthew Spring
9. Thomas Bewick's Dealings with North-Eastern Musicians, 1770-1800 - Roz Southey
10. Makers, Repairers, Teachers, Dealers and Printers: The Music Trade Network in Late Eighteenth-Century West Midlands - Martin Perkins
11. 'Quacks in the Musical ... Science'? The Curious Case of Stephen Moore, Piano Maker, and the Organ of St Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen - Simon D.I. Fleming
Select Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. London and Beyond: Rethinking a Nation's Trade in Music - Stephanie Carter and Simon D.I. Fleming
2. Musick's Hand-maid in Westmorland: A Story of the Music Trade in Early Modern England - Stephanie Carter
3. Rul'd paper for Musick': How long was the reach of the Playfords? - Robert Thompson
4. The Music Trade in York, 1650-1800: Proprietors and Purchasers - David Griffiths
5. Joseph Barber of Newcastle upon Tyne and William Flackton of Canterbury: Booksellers, Music Publishing and the Subscription Market in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Simon D.I. Fleming
6. Distributing Irish Reprints in England: The Activities of Liverpool's John Bridge Pye - Nancy A. Mace
7. Edward Miller of Doncaster: The Composer and the Music Trade - Christopher Roberts
8. Thomas Underwood and his Successors: The Music Shops of Eighteenth-Century Bath- Matthew Spring
9. Thomas Bewick's Dealings with North-Eastern Musicians, 1770-1800 - Roz Southey
10. Makers, Repairers, Teachers, Dealers and Printers: The Music Trade Network in Late Eighteenth-Century West Midlands - Martin Perkins
11. 'Quacks in the Musical ... Science'? The Curious Case of Stephen Moore, Piano Maker, and the Organ of St Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen - Simon D.I. Fleming
Select Bibliography
Index