Music in Eighteenth-Century England

Contents

• 1. The beginnings of provincial concert life in England Michael Tilmouth;
• 2. Thomas Tudway's History of Music Christopher Hogwood;
• 3. Purcellian passages in the compositions of G. F. Handel Franklin B. Zimmerman;
• 4. 'Or rather our musical Shakspeare': Charles Burney's Purcell Richard Luckett;
• 5. Walsh's editions of Handel's Opera 1-5: the texts and their sources Donald Burrows;
• 6. The recovery of Handel's operas Winton Dean;
• 7. Intellectual contexts of Handel's English oratorios Ruth Smith;
• 8. Handel's successor: notes on John Christopher Smith the younger Alfred Mann;
• 9. The late additions to Handel's oratorios and the role of the younger Smith Anthony Hicks;
• 10. Handel's harpsichord music: a checklist Terence Best;
• 11. New light on the libretto of The Creation Nicholas Temperley;
• 12. The English symphony: some additions and annotations to Charles Cudworth's published studies Jan LaRue;
• 13. Thematic index of English symphonies Charles Cudworth and Jan LaRue;
• 14. A bibliography of the writings of Charles Cudworth Richard Andrewes.