Music and the benefit performance in eighteenth-century Britain /

In the early eighteenth century, the benefit performance became an essential component of commercial music-making in Britain. Benefits, adapted from the spoken theatre, provided a new model from which instrumentalists, singers, and composers could reap financial and professional rewards. Benefits co...

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Other Authors: Gardner, Matthew, 1981- (Editor), DeSimone, Alison Clark (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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