Registration is open for the 41st Annual Conference on Music in 18th-Century Britain.
https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/the-41st-annual-conference-on-music-in-18th-century-britain/

Registration fee, including lunch and refreshments, and admission to The Foundling Museum between 10am and 5pm, payable in advance, £20 (£25 on the day).

THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM, 40 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, LONDON, WC1N 1AZ

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2025

10.00  Registration and refreshments

10.30  Catherine Harbor (Caistor) — Advertised Harmonies: Examining Concert Repertoire in London’s Pleasure Gardens and Wells, 1690–1750

11.00  Peter Holman (Colchester) — Buried Treasure in Yorkshire: The Taphouse Collection and the Leeds Partbooks

11.40  Michael Busk (Great Yarmouth) — The Three Choirs Festival was not the first

12.00  Carole Taylor (London) — Patronage of Italian Opera in 1730s London : Subscribers to the Nobility Opera and Handel

12.30  Jack Comerford (London) — Handel’s Tenor and Bass: Vocal Hierarchies and Domestic Print Culture

13.00-14.00  Lunch                                                                     

14.00  Caroline Suter (London) —Fougeroux’s travel diary, 1728

14.20  Mary-Jannet Leith (London) — John Gow and his Band: Scottish dance music in late eighteenth-century London

14.50  Simon D.I. Fleming (Durham) — Concert Life in late Eighteenth-Century Calcutta: Recreating British Musical Culture in a Colonial Setting

15.20-15.40  Refreshments

15.40  Alan Howard (Cambridge) — Women at the piano: grand piano sonatas, 1780–1810

16.10  Janette Bright (Chelmsford) — Peering into the Music Teacher’s Room

16.30  Mollie Carlyle (Cambridge)— Did Shanties Begin in the 18th Century? Rethinking Dibdin’s Sailors and Maritime Song

17.00  Conference ends