Programme

• Stephen Banfield: American Music in and around 19^th-Century Bristol
• Andrew Clarke: The Role of Networking in the Musical Community of Late-Georgian Bath

• Moira Ann Harris: Striking a Blow for Scottish Culture: The Work of the Dunedin Association from 1911 to 1917
• Jane Mallinson: Andrew Black (1859–1920): Scotland’s Best but Least-Known Singer?

• Rosemary Golding: The ‘University Object’: Degrees, Diplomas and the Idea of the Music Qualification in Late 19^th-Century Britain
• Kieran Crichton: ‘One of those thick-pated English organist-scholar creations’? Franklin Peterson, Ormond Professor, 1901-14
• Luke Berryman: C. Hubert H. Parry and the Birth of Music as a University Subject, or ‘A Plea Made on Music’s Behalf’

• Alison Mero: The Musical World’s Promotion of a National English Opera
• Paul Rodmell: Mapelson’s London Opera Project of 1875
• Steven Martin: The British Operatic Machine in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Quest for a National Opera

• Peter Horton: ‘They earn money from morning till night’: Issues of Finance and Status among Professional Musicians in Mid-19^th-century England
• Rachel Milestone: ‘A Melodious Phenomenon’: The Life and Times of a Town Hall Organist
• Jana Sims: Mechanics’ Institutes and Music in the 19^th Century

• Joseph Sargent: Operatic Impulses in Stanford’s Early Evening Canticles
• Christopher Scheer: A Perfect Wagnerite? Fin-de-siècle British Wagnerism and the Creation of Gustav Holst’s Sita

• Edward Elgar (arr. S. Karl-Elert): Falstaff
• William Sterndale Bennett: Piano sonata The Maid of Orleans

• Benedict Taylor: Sullivan, Scott, and Ivanhoe: Constructing Historical Time and National Identity in the Victorian Era
• Phyllis Weliver: Prometheus Unbound and the English Musical Renaissance

• Judy Barger: Musical ‘Accomplishments’ of Victorian Young Ladies
• Michelle Meinhart: Music, Marginalia, and Memory: Female Life Writing in the 19-Century English Music Copy Book

• Leanne Langley: ‘Women in the Band’: Music, Modernity and the Politics of Engagement, London 1913
• Jennifer O’Connor: The Influence of London in the Musical Careers of Irish Women
• Fiona M. Palmer: Finding Direction: Hierarchies in the Early Years of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society

• Duncan Boutwood: And Still They Called for More: Observations of Audience Behaviour in the Newspaper Criticism of Herbert Thompson
• Donna S. Parsons: ‘Pythonesses Upon Their Tripods:’ Music Criticism in Michael Field’s Works and Days
• Paul Watt: French Influences on English Musical Criticism in the Late Victorian Period: The Case of Ernest Newman and the Weekly Critical Review, 1903/04

• Michael Kassler: England’s First Musicological Journal: The Quarterly Musical Register (1812)
• Meirion Hughes: ‘A Unique Position in Musical Literature’: The Strand Musical Magazine

• Damien Sagrillo: Interactions between Scottish Folksong and the Music of the Viennese Classical Period
• Bennett Zon: Cecil Sharp and the Evolution of Folk Song: Some Conclusions on Some Conclusions (1907)

• Trevor Herbert: The British Military Music Establishment and its Influence in the Later 19^th and Early 20^th Centuries
• Simon Purtell: A Pitch for Empire: Performing Pitch in Late 19^th- and Early 20^th-Century Melbourne

• Christine Andrews: The Great Handel Commemoration of 1859: Costa’s Monumental Scores and the Crystal Palace Festivals
• Rachel Cowgill: Out of a Silence? Mary Wakefield, the Westmorland Festival, and the Musicalisation of Lakeland
• Christopher Redwood: William Hurlstone and the Century Concerts

Conference Dinner @ Zero Degrees

• Bonnie Smart: Recitative and Variation in the 19-Century English Context

• Alf. C. Carrington: Sea Songs and Songs of the Sea
• Kristina Guiguet: Music as a Discourse of Power: A Conservative Musical Soundscape in Britain, 1835-1841

• Michael Allis: Elgar Abroad; In the South, Travel Literature and ‘Imaginative Topography’
• Lewis Foreman: The Eclipsed Tradition. The Long Evolution of the Symphony in 19^th-Century England through Publication and Performance

• Sterling Lambert: Mendelssohn’s ‘Marian’ Symphony
• Nicholas Phillips: Lecture-recital: Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words in Victorian England