“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.
An international conference to commemorate the bicentenary of Joseph Haydn’s death
Dates: 6–9 August 2009
Location: York University, Toronto, Canada
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Festival Paganiniano of Carro
International Conference: Niccolò Paganini Diabolus In Musica
Dates: 16–18 July 2009
Location: La Spezia, Italy
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Conference website, with program and registration form.
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