Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… with the family. There was ample room, figuratively at least, for sociability, 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 … salon can be situated somewhere on a continuum between the private and the public sphere, between literary and musical entertainment, even between work and leisure: ‘Pleasant as salon gatherings certainly were, they were not mere leisure … until 12, & was singing almost all the Time!’ (The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burne y, II, p. 75, 154). The entertainment was generally two-fold: first, musical performances were enjoyed by at least some parts of the audience and …
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