18th-Century Music: Seminar

Harvard FAS

Enlightenment Musical & Literary Networks. This course investigates the possibilities, limitations, and consequences of “musical thought in the global enlightenments” (Bohlman 2018) by tracing local, national, and transregional networks of music and letters in performance and print. The published writing of Charles Burney (1726–1814) will serve as our point of departure as we follow the ideas circulating through his personal and professional circles in England (children Fanny,…