Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… 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 readers, …
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