Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

333 Pages·2000·14.839 MB·English

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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Edited by
David Wyn Jones
~) Routledge
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First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Jones, David Wyn
Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain
I .Opera - Great Britain - 18"' century - History and criticism
I. Jones, David Wyn
782.9'033
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Jones, David Wyn
Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain I edited by David Wyn Jones
p. cm
Includes index.
I .Music - Great Britain - 18"' century - Congresses.
I.Jones, David Wyn. II. Cardiff University. Dept. of Music.
ML285.3.M87 2000
780'. 94 l '09033-dc21
00-029978
ISBN 13: 978-1-84014-688-2 (hbk)
Contents
List of plates vii
List of tables viii
Library sigla x
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xiv
1 Eighteenth-Century English Music: Past, Present, Future
Peter Holman
Part I Institutions and Networks
2 Italian Comic Opera at the King's Theatre in the 1760s:
the Role of the Buffi 17
Saskia Willaert
3 Freemasomy and Musical Life in London in the Late
Eighteenth Century 72
Simon McVeigh
4 The London Roman Catholic Embassy Chapels and their Music
in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 101
Philip 01/eson
Part 2 Genre and Repertoire
S Italian Violoncellists and some Violoncello Solos Published
in Eighteenth-Century Britain I 21
Lowell Lindgren
6 Murder most Virtuous: the Judith Oratorios of De Fesch,
Smith and Ame I 58
Eva Zollner
7 A Reappraisal of Provincial Church Music 172
Sally Drage
vi CONTENTS
Part 3 Sources and Resourees
1
8 Handel's 17JS (Lo•don) Version of Athalia J93
Donald Burrows
9 The Mackworth Collection: a Social and Bibliographical Resource 213
Sarah McCleave
10 The Papers of C.I. Latrobe: New Light on Musicians, Music
and tile Christian Family in Late Eighteenth-Century England 234
Rachel Cowgill
Pa.rt 4 lndhriduals and Style
11 Maurice Greeae's Haipsicbord Music: Sources and Style 261
H. Diack John.stone
12 Viotti's 'Loadon' Concertos (Nos. 20-29):
Progressive or Retrospective? 282
Robin Slowe/I
Inde.x
299
compiled by Jane Holland
List of Plates
3.1 The interior of the Freemasons' Hall 87
(By permission: GB-Lbl.)
4.1 The interior of the Sardinian chapel around 1808 102
5.1 The first known depiction of a violoncello in eighteenth-century
Britain. Designed by Tempest and engraved by John Smith (1702) 123
(By permission: GB-Lbl.)
6.1 William Hogarth: A Chorus of Singers, December 1732 161
6.2 William Hogarth: frontispiece to William Huggins's Judith
(London, 1733) 162
7.1 From 11 Anthems on General and Particular Occasions
Interspersed with Symphonies ... Being particularly design'd
for the Use of Parochial Choirs (Nuneaton, 1779) 185
8.1 An opening from the '1735' wordbook for Athalia 204
(By permission: Gerald Coke Collection.)
8.2 The recitative.'Chi alla [ha la] pietade' added by J.C. Smith to the
conducting score of Aiha/ia 206
(By permission: D-Hs.)
8.3 Conclusion of the aria 'Cor fedele' in the handwriting of J.C. Smith
in the conducting score of Athalia 207
(By permission: D-Hs.)
9.1 Title-page of Bemetzrieder's Music made Easy to every Capacity
(London, c. 1766) 232
(By permission: Cardiff University Library.)
IO.I Reverend Christian Ignatius Latrobe 236
(By permission: National Trust of Australia (Victoria).)
List of Tables
2.1 King's Theatre Opera Companies in the 1760s 30
2.2 Careers of the three primi buffi 34
a Maria Angiola Paganini 36
b Giovanni Lovattini 46
c Anna Zamperini 60
2.3 Comic opera productions at the King's Theatre in the 1760s 68
2.4 Arias included in Bertoldo Berteldino e Cacasenno (1749-62) 70
5.1 Italian cellists who performed in eighteenth-century Britain 136
a Cellists in Britain, 1701-94 137
b Two unlikely Italian cellists in London, 1702-84 148
5.2 Violoncello solos by twenty-nine composers, nearly all of whom
were 'Italian', published in eighteenth-century Britain 149
a Forty-one solos by Italian composers, published 1725-c. 1795 150
b Four Italian •misfits~, published 1720-c. 1775 156
c Three collections by foreign composers other than Italians
published c. 1733-c. 1740 157
6.1 Three Judith oratorios 164
8.1 Musical sources relating to Handel's 1735 performances of Athalia 198
8.2 Overtures to Athalia, and use of related movements 200
8.3 Contents of The Most Celebrated Songs in the Oratorio Ca/I'd
Athalia (Walsh, 1736) 201
8.4 Handel's 1735 version of Athalia, based on the scheme from the
'Coke' wordbook 208
8.5 Handel's 1734-35 casts 211
9.1 Chronological development of the Mackworth Collection 215
9.2 Serious operas in the Mackworth Collection 217
9.3 French music in the Mackworth Collection 218
9.4 New publications bought by the Mackworths
(ordered by inscribed date) 225
9.5 'Unfashionable' items in the Mackworth Collection
(ordered by inscribed date) 226
9.6 Publishers' profile, Mackworth Collection 228
UST OF TABLES ix
9 .. 7 Chamber and concerted music in tbe Mackworth Collection
(ordmd by p•blished date) 230
10.1 Sacred works by Haydn and Mozart featm'ed in Latrobe's
Selection ofS acred Mzt1:1c 257
11.1 Greene: The Suites 275
11.2 Greene: Miscellaneous harpsichord pieces 279
l 1.3 Greene: .Sir O,ertfl1'a O7 45) 28 I
1 l .4 Greene: A Collection ofL essons for 1~ H(lTptichord ( 1750) 28~
12.1 Viotti's 'London' concertos 285