British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800

Introduction - Peter Lynan and Julian Rushton
Part I. Performers and Performance Style
1. Henry, Elizabeth, and George: New Light on Music at Wilton House in the 1770s - Peter Holman
2. Wilhelm Cramer, the Professional Concert, and the Foundation of the Modern Symphony Orchestra - Simon McVeigh
3. Thomas Vincent (1723-1798): Oboist, Composer, and Entrepreneur - Michael Talbot
4. J. C. Bach and the 'true Organ Style': Propriety and Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century English Organ Music - Peter Lynan
Part II. Composers and Secular Institutions
5. Henry Purcell's Mad Songs in the Theatre and Concert Rooms in the Eighteenth Century - Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
6. From 'Fowle Originall' to 'Printed for the Author': The Autograph Score of William Croft's 'Laurus cruentas' - Alan Howard
7. James Lates of Oxford and his Sixteen Minuets - Susan Wollenberg
8. William Hayes (1708-1777), Professor of Music - Simon Heighes
Part III. Sacred Music and Institutions
9. Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey, 1685-1760 - Tony Trowles
10. Catholic Church Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain - John Caldwell
11. Precedents for the Symphony Anthem: British Library Additional Manuscript 31434 and the Court of Charles I - Jonathan P. Wainwright
Part IV. Dissemination: Printing and Publishing
12. 'You can't have it of Smith except you'll have it wrote out on Purpose': Eighteenth-Century Copyists of Handel's Music in London and the 'Smith Scriptorium' - Donald Burrows
13. The Earliest Surviving Engraved Music Plates? - Peter Ward Jones and Kelly Domoney
Epilogue: Musica Britannica and the Eighteenth Century - Julian Rushton
Harry Diack Johnstone: A Tribute
Bibliography of the Works of Harry Diack Johnstone
Index