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The London-Spy (1699) [ Practices ]
… Cambridge, who was possess’d with Melancholy, but very inoffensive, and had the Liberty of the Gallery; this was a very Musical Man, which is thought to be one great Occasion of his Distemper: My Friend walk’d up to him, and introduc’d some …
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The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… the Lyre which CAMBRIDGE strung, When he the empty ballroom sung; 'Tis tun'd above thy pitch, I doubt, And thou no music wouldst draw out: Yet, in a lower note, presume To sing the full dull Drawing-room. Where the dire Circle keeps its …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
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Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Being a flashpoint, women and their bodies were the central connection of social interactions. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Keywords Audience Commodities Dance Theatre Arising out of the French court, the ballet during the long … attention, discussion and debate about the content of the ballet, choreography, its performers, costumes, scenery, and music, to promote ticket sales, cover production costs, artistic fees and make a profit. The female danseuses’ silk …
Audience | Commodities | Dance | Theatre
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… both of her husbands, the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale (c. 1724-1782), actually her mother’s choice, and the singer and music master to her daughter Gabriele Piozzi (1740-1809), were self-made men, though of different social standing. For … as Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney , who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at … price for her perceived mésalliance exacted: ostracized by her old circles on account of her marriage to a Catholic music teacher, she defiantly embarked on a three years’ Grand Tour to Italy with him in 1784. Hester Piozzi’s social …
Bluestockings | Commerce | Friendship | Italy | Literature | Politics
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On Conversation (1756) [ Concepts ]
… are admirably adapted to the ‘soft parts of conversation,’ and sweetly ‘prattling out of fashion,’ make very pretty music from a beautiful face and a female tongue; but from a rough manly voice and coarse features, mere nonsense is as …
Conversation | Animals | Theatre
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… tea, till nine or ten o’clock at night, to keep them awake for the rest of the evening. As for the orchestra, the vocal music especially, it is well for the performers that they cannot be heard distinctly. Vauxhall is a composition of …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… record of favourite convivial songs. Particularly popular songs were also sold with their tunes as more expensive sheet music, some of which ended up in collections of genteel music to be sung in the parlour rooms of the middle classes, although in general were considered more suitable for male …
Community | Conviviality | Hilarity | Politics | Song | Toasting
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… might include a five-act play and a shorter afterpiece, each with a prologue and epilogue, as well as dances, music, acrobatic or other entertainments between the acts or the main and afterpiece. 4 . Edward A. Langhans, ‘The … For each benefit, an individual actor or group of actors or other playhouse professionals (such as dancers, musicians, or prompters) would choose the repertoire, sell the tickets, entreat their friends to fill the house, and … this practice: 'Written by Mr. Garrick, and spoken by Mr. King, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane.' 29 Amateur musicians delighted in the ability to purchase, sing, and play music from the theatre’s productions. 30 Those who …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Fame | Rioting | Theatre
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… up his post in Naples in 1764, he was accompanied by his first wife, Lady Catherine (1738-1782). She was an accomplished musician, particularly of the harpsichord, which she is shown playing in a portrait of the couple painted in 1770. Image … The Impact of Italy: The Grand Tour and Beyond (London: The British School at Rome, 2000). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Music in Naples (1771) … As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples between 1764 and 1800, Sir William welcomed …
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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