Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

List of Contributors

pp xiii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Centres of Musical Activity

pp 11-12

1 - ‘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

pp 13-28

2 - Recovering the Soundscape of Pre-Reformation Newcastle upon Tyne

pp 29-53

3 - The Selection, Acquisition and Performance of Handel’s English Odes and Oratorios in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Durham

pp 54-69

4 - Compositional Activity in Durham City, 1750–1810: Its Influences and Impact

pp 70-88

5 - ‘I esteem my lot fortunate, in residing in this happy country’: Edward Miller, Social Networking and Music-Making in Eighteenth-Century Doncaster

pp 89-108

Sources

pp 109-110

6 - The York Antiphonal: History, Liturgy and Use in the Late Fifteenth Century

pp 111-126

7 - Tunes 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. MS 17853)

pp 127-150

8 - From Newcastle upon Tyne to Colonial Carolina: Transatlantic Tune Transmission and Durham Hills’s The Cashaway Psalmody (1770)

pp 151-172

Recreation and Education

pp 173-174

9 - Schoolboy Performance in the Post-Reformation North-East

pp 175-191

10 - Amateur Music-Making among the Mercantile Community of Newcastle upon Tyne from the 1690s to the 1750s

pp 192-215

11 - The Household Band of the Bowes of Gibside, County Durham, 1722–1760: Configuration, Repertoire, Training and Use

pp 216-238

Print and Popular Song

pp 239-240

12 - William Shield’s A Collection of Favourite Songs (c.1775)

pp 241-260

13 - Between the Broadside Ballad and the Folksong: Print and Popular Songs in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle upon Tyne

pp 261-281

14 - ‘Canny Newcassel’: Marshall’s Musical Metropolis of North Britain

pp 282-302

Select Bibliography

pp 303-310

Index

pp 311-321

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 322-324