THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM, 40 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, LONDON, WC1N 1AZ
FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2018
CHAIRS – Thelma Wilson, Olive Baldwin, Peter Holman
10.00 Coffee and registration
10.15 Simon D.I. Fleming (Durham) – The Rise of the Female Musical Patron: A Study of Women Subscribers in British Eighteenth-Century Music Subscription Lists
10.45 Penelope Cave (Haslemere) – Women on the Title-page: celebrity endorsement of musical scores
11.15-11.45 Coffee / Reports (from 11.30)
11.45 Michael Cole (Cheltenham) – Mary Marsh: the epitome of an eighteenth-century musical woman
12.15 Anita Sikora (Aldershot) – La Signora Durastanti, singer and (expectant) mother, in London 1720/21
12.45 Martin Perkins (Birmingham) – The Musical Activities of Women in the late Eighteenth Century: Some Findings from the British Midlands
13.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Andrew Pink (London) – “Robin Hood and merry women in a minor eighteenth-century London pleasure garden”
14.30 Chris Price (Canterbury) – The Lyric Repository: Literate Conviviality
15.00 Tríona O’Hanlon (Dublin) – The Hibernian Catch Club: Catch and Glee Culture in Georgian Dublin
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00 Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Brentwood) – Getting and spending in London and Yorkshire: a young musician’s account book for 1799-1800
16.30 Micah Ann Neale – ‘One Half of the World Knows Not How the Other Half Live’: Music and Non-Elite Society in Eighteenth-Century St Clement Danes
17.00 Conference ends
REGISTRATION FEE, including lunch and refreshments, and admission to The Foundling Museum between 10am and 5pm, payable in advance, £17 (£21 on the day)
By cheque payable to ‘The Foundling Museum’ – please send to:
GCHC, The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ
By card: https://foundlingmuseum.cloudvenue.co.uk/musicstudyday (booking fee applies)