… since music-making was only part of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the
Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed with the talented, and women, musicians as well as visitors, … the Enlightenment; they may not even qualify as a ‘salon’ when compared to those of the Parisian salonnières or the
Bluestockings, but if one follows Dena Goodman’s definition, they should be accepted as a musical equivalent: ‘What … since music-making was only part of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the
Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed with the talented, and women, musicians as well as visitors, …