“Above all, music must move the heart...” C. P. E. Bach
The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century. The Society provides a forum where scholars and performers can further their knowledge of music, history and interrelated arts of the period and serves as a resource to facilitate and encourage collaboration.
The Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden announces a forthcoming international conference: “Das Instrumentalrepertoire der Dresdner Hofkapelle in den ersten beiden Dritteln des 18. Jahrhunderts. Überlieferung und Kopisten,” June 23–25, 2010. It will be part of the ongoing research project “Die Instrumentalmusik der Dresdner Hofkapelle zur Zeit der sächsisch-polnischen Union: Erschließung, Digitalisierung und Internetpräsentation,” funded by The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). The conference program will be soon available on the project homepage.
For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.schrank-zwei.de.
Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
International Conference on the occasion of the 9th edition of the Festival Paganiniano of Carro, organized by the Società dei Concerti, La Spezia; Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca
Dates: 15–17 July 2010
Location: La Spezia (Italy), CAMeC (Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art)
More information and call for papers here.
Genre in Eighteenth-Century Music has been published by Steglein Publishing. This volume prints eleven papers read at the second biennial conference of our society in Williamsburg in 2006 and can be ordered directly from Steglein’s web site: www.steglein.com.
A list of dissertations currently being written on topics pertaining to music in the eighteenth century can be found here.
The complete text of Charles Burney’s The Present State of Music in France and Italy, 2nd, corrected edition, (London: T. Becket and Co., 1773), is now available here. Access is free and open to anyone.
SECM members get 20% discount on Eighteenth-Century Music and Journal of Musicology