Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650–1800

Dr STEPHANIE CARTER is a Research Associate on 'Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England's County Records Offices', an AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway, University of London, and Newcastle University. Her research focuses on musical culture in early modern England, particularly around music ownership, circulation and trade. She is also Archivist/Librarian at Carlisle Cathedral. Dr SIMON D.I. FLEMING is a Durham-based musicologist with an interest in eighteenth-century British music. He worked extensively with subscribers' lists which led to the formation of the Dataset of Subscribers (https://musicsubscribers.co.uk/) and the joint editing of a multi-author book, Music by Subscription: Composers and Their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676-1820 (2022). ROZ SOUTHEY is a music historian and novelist.

The book thus provides a refreshingly rounded perspective on the many ways in which the music trade in Britain in this period was intertwined with musical culture in its towns and cities. The collection gives us some tantalizing glimpses of who those people were and how the commercial music trade facilitated their music-making across Britain's regions. It is to be hoped that the book will encourage future research into this 'burgeoning national historiography of British musical life'.

• List of IllustrationsList of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. London and Beyond: Rethinking a Nation's Trade in Music - Stephanie Carter and Simon D.I. Fleming2. Musick's Hand-maid in Westmorland: A Story of the Music Trade in Early Modern England - Stephanie Carter3. Rul'd paper for Musick': How long was the reach of the Playfords? - Robert Thompson4. The Music Trade in York, 1650-1800: Proprietors and Purchasers - David Griffiths5. Joseph Barber of Newcastle upon Tyne and William Flackton of Canterbury: Booksellers, Music Publishing and the Subscription Market in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Simon D.I. Fleming6. Distributing Irish Reprints in England: The Activities of Liverpool's John Bridge Pye - Nancy A. Mace7. Edward Miller of Doncaster: The Composer and the Music Trade - Christopher Roberts8. Thomas Underwood and his Successors: The Music Shops of Eighteenth-Century Bath- Matthew Spring9. Thomas Bewick's Dealings with North-Eastern Musicians, 1770-1800 - Roz Southey10. Makers, Repairers, Teachers, Dealers and Printers: The Music Trade Network in Late Eighteenth-Century West Midlands - Martin Perkins11. 'Quacks in the Musical ... Science'? The Curious Case of Stephen Moore, Piano Maker, and the Organ of St Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen - Simon D.I. FlemingSelect Bibliography Index