Music Aspires to Letters: Charles Burney, Queeney Thrale and the Streatham Circle

Rumbold, Valerie

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“…22 Rumbold's analysis encapsulates the ideological division between the 'fashionable' and 'professional' dimensions of musical entertainment. The Burneys had become acquainted with the family through Charles, who became an intimate of the Streatham set through his tuition of the Thrales' eldest daughter, Hester Maria (known as 'Queeney').…”

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“…Rumbold describes the contents of Queeney Thrale's music book, chosen by Charles Burney, as 'a selection which evokes the contemporary world of fashionable musical entertainments, a world in which Burney and his family took an expert professional interest, while to the less genuinely musical Thrales it presented a suitably stylish diversion'. 22 Rumbold's analysis encapsulates the ideological division between the 'fashionable' and 'professional' dimensions of musical entertainment. In the Burney household, to be 'genuinely musical' involved not only attendance at musical performances but also an appreciation of musical composition and performance as specialist artistic practices.…”

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Frances Burney's Private Professionalism

Ulph¹

2014

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Frances Burney's experiences of conversational culture at Streatham and St Martin's Street are crucial to an understanding of her early artistic identity. While the influence of the Streatham coterie on Burney's professional development is well established, and often seen as an antidote to the private circulation models of the bluestocking circle, the vibrant artistic and intellectual network of her father's household is formative. Her experiences of all of these coteries would ultimately enable Burney to synthesise a hybrid blend of domestic privacy and artistic professionalism that she would valorise in her later work, and idealise in Memoirs of Doctor Burney.

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Frances Burney's Private Professionalism

Ulph¹

2014

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Dr. Charles Burney and the Organ

Dubois¹

2021

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Whereas Dr Burney's writings are often mentioned in studies on eighteenth-century music, not much interest seems to have been given specifically to his relation to the organ, which played an important part in his professional career as a practising musician. No better introduction to the aesthetic ethos of the eighteenth-century English organ can be found than in Burney's remarks disseminated in his various writings. Taken together, they construct a coherent discourse on taste and constitute an aesthetic. Burney's view of the organ is indicative of a broader ethos of moderation that permeates his whole work, and is at one with the dominant moral philosophy of Georgian England. This conception is ripe with patriotic undertones, while it also articulates a constant plea for politeness as a condition for harmonious social interaction. He believed that moderation, simplicity, and fancy were the constituents of good taste as well as good manners.

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"The Middle State": Italian Opera in Frances Burney's Cecilia

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2005

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Music Aspires to Letters: Charles Burney, Queeney Thrale and the Streatham Circle

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Frances Burney's Private Professionalism

Frances Burney's Private Professionalism

Dr. Charles Burney and the Organ

"The Middle State": Italian Opera in Frances Burney's Cecilia

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