Whereas Dr Burney's writings are often mentioned in studies on
eighteenth-century music, not much interest seems to have been
given specifically to his relation to the organ, which played an
important part in his professional career as a practising musician.
No better introduction to the aesthetic ethos of the
eighteenth-century English organ can be found than in Burney's
remarks disseminated in his various writings. Taken together, they
construct a coherent discourse on taste and constitute an
aesthetic. Burney's view of the organ is indicative of a broader
ethos of moderation that permeates his whole work, and is at one
with the dominant moral philosophy of Georgian England. This
conception is ripe with patriotic undertones, while it also
articulates a constant plea for politeness as a condition for
harmonious social interaction. He believed that moderation,
simplicity, and fancy were the constituents of good taste as well
as good manners.
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