Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… He does not seem to have performed himself during these evenings, though his daughters Esther and Susanna and his son-in-law Charles Rousseau Burney frequently did ( The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, II, 77; 187). 3 . Dena … between public and private gatherings in the eighteenth-century, and it is important to keep in mind that, as Lawrence Klein explains, ‘the private and the public did not correspond to the distinction between home and not-home. … informal, easy-going implementation of these principles was certainly a hallmark of the Burneys’ musical evenings. 12 . Lawrence E. Klein, ‘Gender and the Public/Private Distinction in the Eighteenth Century: Some Questions about Evidence …
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