… audience – visited in their leisure time, by invitation or inclination depending on their status and intimacy with the family. There was ample room, figuratively at least, for sociability, since music-making was only part of the … material – and financial support – for his masterpiece, the General History of Music (1776-1789), and maintained his family by giving lessons on the harpsichord to the daughters of the more affluent, ‘giving as many as fifty-seven lessons … University Press, 1988), xxi-xxii. 5 . Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, arranged from his own Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections. By his daughter, Madame d’Arblay, 3 vols. (London, 1832), I, p. 289-90. 6 …