Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Table of Contents

Introduction Alison DeSimone and Matthew Gardner
Part I. Musical Benefits in the London Theatre: Networks and Repertories:
1. Risks and rewards: benefits and their financial impact on actors, authors, singers, and other musicians in London, c. 1690–1730 Kathryn Lowerre
2. With several entertainments of singing and dancing: London Theatre benefits, 1700–1725 Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
3. Concertos 'upon the stage' in early Hanoverian London: the instrumental counterpart to opera Seria Robert G. Rawson
4. Cobblers, country fairs, and cross-dressing: benefits and the development of ballad opera Vanessa Rogers
Part II. Beyond London: Mimicry or Originality?:
5. Benefit concerts in the North of England: more than just musical entertainment Roz Southey
6. Amateur music-making, professional musicians, and benefit concerts in Edinburgh Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch
7. English music in benefit concerts: Henry Purcell and the next generation Amanda Eubanks Winkler
8. Strategies of performance: benefits, professional singers, and Italian opera in the early eighteenth century Alison DeSimone
Part IV. Charity Benefits:
9. The Mercer's Hospital Charity Services: music charity in eighteenth-century Dublin Tríona O'Hanlon
10. English Oratorio and charity benefits in mid-eighteenth-century London Matthew Gardner
Part V. The Role of the Audience:
11. Encountering 'the most extraordinary prodigy': meeting Master Mozart in Georgian London John Irving
12. Benefits: Cui Bono? David Hunter.

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