Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and mus

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century cultur

The essays in this book are devoted to the social and intellectual background of eighteenth-century music.

In eighteenth-century England, "variety" became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety--of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.