JOHN CUNNINGHAM is a Reader and Director of Research at the School of Music and Media, Bangor University. BRYAN WHITE is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the School of Music, University of Leeds. JOHN CUNNINGHAM is a Reader and Director of Research at the School of Music and Media, Bangor University. BRYAN WHITE is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the School of Music, University of Leeds. Donald Burrows is Professor of Music at the Open University and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel. GRAHAM SADLER is Professor of Musicology, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK.

• Introduction - John Cunningham and Bryan White'Qui en ont porté la connoissance dans les autres Royaumes': The Transmission of Music for Viols by Emigrant Composers in Seventeenth-Century England - Patxi del Amo'The Tunes of the usual French Dances at COURT and DANCING SCHOOLS': The Repertoire and Musical Practice of Dancing Masters in Restoration England - Andrew Woolley'An Inexhaustible Treasure of Harmony'? Composition and Variation in William Babell's Twenty-four Solos - Alan HowardThe Fashion for Corelli in Eighteenth-Century England - Min-Jung Kang'After the Italian manner': Finger, Pepusch and the First Concertos in England - Robert G RawsonGeminiani's Minuets in Britain and on the Continent - Rudolf RaschBattles and Bransles: The Role of the Swiss Pair in Early Modern Courtly Society - Nancy HaddenLost in Translation?: Louis Grabu and John Dryden's Albion and Albanius - Bryan WhiteThe Figuring of Bass Parts in German Dance Music from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century; What it Tells us About their Performance - Michael RobertsonHarmonic Language and Playing Style of English 'Continued Bass' in the Seventeenth Century - Thérèse de GoedeMelodic Aspects of the Cadential Six-Four in Eighteenth-Century Music - Michael Talbot'Before him stood sundry sweet Singers of this our Israel': The Chorus Singers for Handel's London Oratorio Performances - Donald Burrows'Seven Young Hautboys': The Impact of German Hautboisten on English Musical Life, 1680-1800 - Samantha OwensBritish Concert Repertoire and its Dispersal in Europe: Sets of Parts in the Utile Dulci Library, Stockholm - Fiona SmithAngelo Notari and the English Court - Johnathan WainwrightThe Elusive Identity of John Playford - Robert ThompsonJames Sherard as Music Collector - Stephen RoseNew Light on William Corbett's Gresham College Bequest - John CunninghamPhilip Hayes and the Preservation and Dissemination of Purcell's Music in Eighteenth-Century England - Rebecca HerissoneRameau and the English - Graham SadlerStephen Storace as a Disciple of Mozart - Julian RushtonWorking with Peter Holman: From a Seat in The Parley of Instruments - Judy TarlingPeter Holman: A Family Memoir - Tricia HolmanThe Works of Peter HolmanIndex

[A] wide ranging set of first-rate, tightly-focussed essays by leading scholars in their respective fields thatmakes a significant contribution to the on-going study of music in Britain.