Programme

10:00AM

Arrival and registration

10:30AM

Welcome

11:00AM - 1:00PM

International influences and exchanges

Philip Burnett and Rachel Cowgill: Britons in Transit: Music, Moravians, and the Beginnings of the Modern British Missionary Movement, 1790-1834

Jan Dewilde: Ireland: the land of Belgian organists'. Flemish organists and composers in Ireland during the long nineteenth century (1860-1918)

Anastasia Zaponidou: Musical America and the ‘English ‘Cellist’: Bringing “Englishness” in the United States

Men and their carrers

Sarah Clarke: “Historical! Rare!!!” - The works of Ferdinand Pelzer (1801-1864)

Jonathan Frank: "An excellent musician and worthy man": the life and influence of James William Windsor

Anne Stanyon: Blowing Dust and Cobwebs from Arthur Sullivan: A New Approach to a Working Life

Ross Purves: Life and work as a music examiner in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Lecture recital

Andrew Somerville: The “Scottish” Performances and Compositions of Charles Jean-Baptiste Soualle, 1852-1866

Music and Literature

Michael Allis: The ‘timebound’ and ‘timeless’ Dowson: Granville Bantock’s orchestral refiguring of The Pierrot of the Minute

Alison Gilbert: “Look Not in My Eyes”: Musical Responses to A. E. Housman’s Strategies of Concealment in A Shropshire Lad

Women and their careers

Suzy Corrigan: Celtic Liberties: Dance, Nationhood and New Womanism in Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus (1894)

Russell Burdekin: Frances Susanna(h) Shannon: a “lady of peculiarly fascinating manners” and a somewhat unusual history

Candace Bailey: The Italian Arias of Eliza Abrams, English Song Singer

14:00PM - 5:00PM

Keynote 1

Benedict Taylor: A Yet Sweeter Music? Approaches to Understanding Music in (a long) Nineteenth-Century Britain

9:30AM - 11:00AM

String playing at the turn of the century

Steven Jeon: The development of string quartet concerts in London’s West End from the late nineteenth century to World War 1

Christina Bashford: Amateur String-player Communities in Britain, ca. 1890-1914—The Real, The Virtual, and The Imagined

George Kennaway: The violinist Frank Thistleton (1881-1964) and his performances of baroque music in the early 20th century

The Music Business

Whitney Thompson: 'Poor Feminine Claribel with Her Hundred Songs': Ballads, Royalties, and the Birth of the Popular Music Industry in 1860s England

Yu Lee An: Business Failures in the British Music Trade

Phyllis Weliver: Music and the Queen's Mustard

11:30AM - 1:00PM

Music and Religion 1

Esther Hu: Christina Rossetti’s Poetry and Song: Anglican Plainchant, the Victorian Hymn, and “English Musical Thought”

Bennett Zon: Elgar and Gregorian chant

Joanna Bullivant: Musical Oratory? A prolegomenon to Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius

Continental Europe in British musical life

Oliver Puckey: The Idea of "Musical Germany" in British Intellectual Culture, c. 1800-1860

Peter Horton: Christian Wessel (1797-1885) and the publication of German song in London

Chloe Valenti: Representations of Italy in early nineteenth-century and Victorian popular music

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Musical Communities and publics

Paul Britten: Smoking Concerts and the development of audiences for music in nineteenth century Britain

Mie Othelie Berg: ‘Music “for the unwashed”’: Organ transcriptions and their use in civic organ recitals

Roger Hansford: ‘Hurrah for our Volunteer Rifles’: the Mid-Victorian Irregular Army as Defender of Society in Songs of c.1860

Mollie Carlyle: Exploring the shanty’s shift from land to sea to land during the long 19th century

Performers and audiences in the early 19th century

Karl Traugott Goldbach: Two performances of The Fall of Babylon: a case study in London concert marketing in 1843

Michael Busk: Maximising audience capacity at the 1828 Manchester musical festival

Gigliola Di Grazia: Friedrich Kalkbrenner’s London decade (1814-1824) as told in his letters

Sarah Waltz: Bridgetower’s Beethoven advocacy

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Keynote 2

Sophie Fuller: “A temple of glorious music making”: The late Victorian and Edwardian musical salon

9:30AM - 11:00AM

Analysis and musical materials

Elizabeth French: The Mazurkas of Francis Edward Bache

Philip Carli: Rediscovering Materials and Assessing the Early British Operas of Julius Benedict

Stacy Jarvis: York Bowen – father of the modern viola

Music in Higher Education

Patrick Becker-Naydenov: The Potter’s Masterwork? Social Background and its Significance for 19th-Century Composition Students at British Universities

Kathleen McGowan: “Let Her Hasten to Girton that Standeth on High”: Women Musicking at Cambridge University, 1869–1893

Anna Wright: The desire for a music college in Manchester: an exploration of the background to the establishment of the Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM)

11:30AM - 1:00PM

Music and Religion 2

Danielle Padley: Singing for the Million? Adopting and adapting music teaching practices for Jewish school pupils in Victorian England

Ruth Eldredge Thomas: Theological Views of the English Bach Revival

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre: “The First Nowell” but not the First Children’s

Christmas Theology through A Century of Children’s Hymnody, 1800-1900

Performance contexts

Deborah Mawer: Beside the Seaside: Premiering Elgar at the ‘Albert Hall of the North’

Tamsin Alexander: The Electric Concert: Power and Illumination in late nineteenth-century London

Lewis Foreman: Dan Godfrey and the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra as champions of women composers: an assessment and progress report