Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… they should be accepted as a musical equivalent: ‘What distinguished salons […] was not only their conception of intellectual activity as useful work, but also the mixing of ranks and orders’ (Goodman 338). 13 This was very much the case at the Burney concerts – with the addition of musical to intellectual activity. In the end, what made the salons and the epistolary networks that passed through them institutions … have been the people who sought to control them, but the principles that underlay and structured them: the social and intellectual principles of reciprocity, equality, debate, and exchange ( Goodman 349-350). The informal, easy-going …
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