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Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British
music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century,
this book investigates the themes of composition, performance
(amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider
context of social, religious and secular institutions. British
music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called
'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once
considered barren. This view has been overturned in recent years
through a better-informed historical perspective, able to recognise
that all kinds of British musical institutions continued to
flourish, and not only in London. The publication, performance and
recording of music by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British
composers, supplemented by critical source-studies and scholarly
editions, shows forms of music that developed in parallel with
those of Britain's near neighbours. Indigenous musicians mingled
with migrant musicians from elsewhere, yet there remained strands
of British musical culture that had no continental equivalent.
Music, vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular, flourished
continuously throughout the Stuart and Hanoverian monarchies.
Composers such as Eccles, Boyce, Greene, Croft, Arne and Hayes were
not wholly overshadowed by European imports such as Handel and J.
C. Bach. The present volume builds on this developing picture of
the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during
the period. Leading musicologists investigate themes such as
composition, performance (amateur and professional), and
music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and
secular institutions.
Sometime in the late 16th to early 17th century an armed
merchantman foundered in the Thames Estuary. Forgotten for over
four centuries, it was rediscovered in 2003 as the Port of London
Authority began clearing navigational hazards from the Princes
Channel. Wessex Archaeology were alerted and recovered five
sections of the ship's hull and four guns, as well as numerous
artefacts. The first report in this two-volume set presented
studies of the hull compiled by the University of Southern Denmark.
The second volume describes the research undertaken at University
College London on the wider maritime context, the conservation
process and the analysis of the contents recovered from the wreck
site. Prominent in the cargo were 42 iron bars thought to be of a
type - so-called 'voyage iron' - sometimes traded to West Africa as
the first stage of the transatlantic slave trade. With a tonnage of
some 150 tons, the Gresham Ship emerges from this research as an
all too rare example of typical armed merchantman of the age,
capable of ocean passages, operating as a privateer or even serving
with the Queen's Navy against the Armada.
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