Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… Dr Burney, himself an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, had begun to make a name for himself with his volumes on The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771), but only with his second book, The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces (1772), which was geared to non-specialist … Observatory thereafter. Their descriptions of these musical parties vary according to the eminence of the musicians present, and what was sometimes described as a more or less private family concert could quickly turn into a semi-public …
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