Music in North-East England, 1500-1800

Dr STEPHANIE CARTER is a Research Associate on 'Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England's County Records Offices', an AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway, University of London, and Newcastle University. Her research focuses on musical culture in early modern England, particularly around music ownership, circulation and trade. She is also Archivist/Librarian at Carlisle Cathedral. KIRSTEN GIBSON is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at Newcastle University. ROZ SOUTHEY is a music historian and novelist. BARBARA CROSBIE is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Social History at Durham University and co-edited (with Adrian Green) Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800 (Boydell Press, 2018). KIRSTEN GIBSON is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at Newcastle University. ROZ SOUTHEY is a music historian and novelist. Dr SIMON D.I. FLEMING is a Durham-based musicologist with an interest in eighteenth-century British music. He worked extensively with subscribers' lists which led to the formation of the Dataset of Subscribers (https://musicsubscribers.co.uk/) and the joint editing of a multi-author book, Music by Subscription: Composers and Their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676-1820 (2022). Dr STEPHANIE CARTER is a Research Associate on 'Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England's County Records Offices', an AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway, University of London, and Newcastle University. Her research focuses on musical culture in early modern England, particularly around music ownership, circulation and trade. She is also Archivist/Librarian at Carlisle Cathedral.

• Introduction - Kirsten Gibson and Stephanie Carter and Roz Southey'All Mynstralles betwene the Ryvers of Trent & Twede...yerely resorte vnto this towne and Borough of Beverley': Examining the Evidence for Beverley as the Late-Medieval and Early Modern Centre for Professional Musicians in the North-East - Diana WyattRecovering the Soundscape of pre-Reformation Newcastle upon Tyne - Magnus WilliamsonThe Selection, Acquisition and Performance of Handel's English Odes and Oratorios in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Durham - Matthew GardnerCompositional Activity in Durham City 1750-1810: Its Influences and Impact - Simon D. I. Fleming'I esteem my lot fortunate, in residing in this happy country': Edward Miller, Social Networking and Music Making in Eighteenth-Century Doncaster - Christopher RobertsThe York Antiphonal: History, Liturgy and Use in the Late Fifteenth Century - Eleanor WarrenTunes for Violin or Recorder Collected in North-East England and London in the Late Seventeenth Century: The Provenance and Contents of the Blakiston Manuscript (GB-Lbl Add. MA 17853) - Andrew WoolleyFrom Newcastle upon Tyne to Colonial Carolina: Transatlantic Tune Transmission and Durham Hills's The Cashaway Psalmody (1770) - Stephen A. MariniSchoolboy Performance in the post-Reformation North-East - Amanda Eubanks WinklerAmateur Music Making Amongst the Mercantile Community of Newcastle upon Tyne from the 1690s to the 1750s - Stephanie Carter - Kirsten GibsonThe Household Band of the Bowes of Gibside, County Durham, 1722-1760: Configuration, Repertoire, Training and Use - Roz SoutheyWilliam Shield's A Collection of Favourite Songs (c.1775) - Amélie AddisonBetween the Broadside Ballad and the Folksong: Print and Popular Songs in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle upon Tyne - Barbara Crosbie'Canny Newcassel': Marshall's Musical Metropolis of North Britain - Oskar Cox Jensen

A refreshing aspect of this study is the presentation of these centres of musical activity in their local and regional context, rather than through their relationship with London, and the exploration of musical transmission which bypassed the capital altogether. . . . As a study of music in the region the volume reflects the diversity and history of the subject while leaving the reader hungry for more, and provides a worthy model for studies of music in other parts of England.