Projects
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Women and the Business of Performance in Eighteenth-Century England
Much of my research concerns the various ways in which women crafted professional careers as musicians in eighteenth-century England. I look beyond the acts of composition and performance to adopt a more holistic view of how women engaged in musical activity, from acting as business agents, to becoming impresarios, to being music teachers.
Forthcoming or Published Works:
Monograph-in-Progress: Women and the Business of Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
“Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century,” in Women and Music in Georgian Britain, ed. Linda Zionkowski and Mimi Hart (forthcoming, Bucknell University Press)
Musical Miscellany
My first monograph argues that musical miscellany—the deliberate assemblage of smaller musical pieces into a larger musical whole—came to define music in England in the early eighteenth century as the nation grappled with extraordinary demographic, social, and cultural change. Analysis of how musical miscellanies were compiled and received gives new insight into what early eighteenth-century audiences were listening to on a nightly basis, revealing new musical canons and ways of musical consumption.
Published Works:
“Beauty, Voice, and Wit: Learning Courtship and Conduct Through Song in Eighteenth-Century Britain” (Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 2023)
“Handel as Miscellany” (Eighteenth-Century Music, 2023)
Music and Theater in Eighteenth-Century England
Much of my work centers on the intersections of music and theatrical performance (opera, incidental music, and concerts) on the London stage.
Forthcoming or Published Works:
Chapter: “Strategies of Performance: Singers, Benefit Concerts, and Italian Opera in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” 162-84.