Music and the benefit performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures = vii
• List of Tables = viii
• List of Music Examples = ix
• Notes on Contributors = x
• Acknowledgements = xiv
• List of Abbreviations = xv
• Introduction / Alison Desimone ; Matthew Gardner= 1
• Part I. Musical benefits in the london theatre : networks and repertories = 21
• 1 Risks and Rewards : Benefits and Their Financial Impact on
• Actors, Authors, Singers, and Other Musicians in London,
• c. 1690-1730 / Kathryn Lowerre = 23
• 2 With Several Entertainments of Singing and Dancing : London
• Theatre Benefits, 1700-1725 / Olive Baldwin ; Thelma Wilson = 39
• 3 Concertos ‘upon the Stage’ in Early Hanoverian London : The
• Instrumental Counterpart to Opera Seria / Robert G. Rawson = 60
• 4 Cobblers, Country Fairs, and Cross-Dressing : Benefits and the
• Development of Ballad Opera / Vanessa L. Rogers = 83
• Part II. Beyond london : mimicry or originality? = 103
• 5 Benefit Concerts in the North of England : More Than Just Musical
• Entertainment / roz Southey = 105
• 6 Amateur Music-Making, Theatre Performances, and Benefit
• Concerts in Edinburgh / Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch = 124
• Part III. Benefits and public image = 143
• 7 English Music in Benefit Concerts : Henry Purcell and the Next
• Generation / Amanda Eubanks Winkler = 145
• 8 Strategies of Performance : Benefits, Professional Singers, and
• Italian Opera in the Early Eighteenth Century / Alison desimone = 162
• Part IV charity benefits = 185
• 9 The Mercer’s Hospital Charity Services : Music and Charity in
• Eighteenth-Century Dublin / Triona O'Hanlon = 187
• 10 English Oratorio and Charity Benefits in Mid-EighteenthCentury London / Matthew Gardner = 202
• Part V. The role of the audience = 221
• 11 Encountering ‘The Most Extraordinary Prodigy’ : Meeting
• Master Mozart in Georgian London / John Irving = 223
• 12 Benefits : cui bono? / David Hunter = 242
• Select Bibliography = 265
• Index of Musical Works = 277
• General Index = 280