Tag Archives: C18 music

To celebrate, to commemorate: Stanley Sadie (1930 – 2005)

Posted on 20 November 2020 by sw508

This year marks what would have been the 90th birthday of the much-missed musician, critic, author and editor Stanley Sadie so we here at MusiCB3 thought we would devote a little post to reflect on his immeasurable contribution to musical … Continue reading →

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Black Bear Music Club Autumn Season 1789 now open for booking

Posted on 26 October 2018 by sw508

As the summer of 1789 gives way to autumn gales and the good folk of Cambridge settle into the Michaelmas Term, their collective eye may well have been caught by a little announcement in the Cambridge Chronicle which might have … Continue reading →

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A box of parts

Posted on 11 May 2018 by mj263

Sometimes, it’s only too easy to forget what a wealth of musical material we have here at the UL. I was reminded forcibly of this the other day, when a reader expressed an interest in John Marsh‘s 7th Symphony, usually … Continue reading →

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To celebrate to commemorate: John Wall Callcott (1766 – 1821)

Posted on 4 March 2016 by sw508

John Wall Callcott (1766 – 1821) is synonymous with the Glee, that quintessentially English unaccompanied sentimental part-song, usually for male voices, popular in the 18th and early 19th century for the enjoyment of which the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Catch Club … Continue reading →

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An evening with the Black Bear Music Club: May 8th 1809

Posted on 8 May 2015 by sw508

It’s been a long time since we visited my friends at the Black Bear Music Club. High time to put that right and see what they were up to once again, so, setting aside my work on the Hans Keller … Continue reading →

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More on Pendlebury hidden collections

Posted on 20 March 2015 by rs797

Sometimes, when the Pendlebury Library is quiet and term has ended, I disappear from my workplace to reach the secret corners of the library, rooms accessible only to library staff. A door in the library annexe separates the accessible part … Continue reading →

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Pendlebury hidden collections

Posted on 6 March 2015 by AP

Over the past 25 years the focus of the Pendlebury Library has gradually but clearly shifted from being a research intensive library owning a collection of manuscripts, concert programmes and rare books, to a faculty library primarily supporting teaching. Although music manuscripts … Continue reading →

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At the event: UL Friends talk by Margaret Faultless

Posted on 20 February 2015 by sw508

It’s all in the notes. Or is it?…. On Wednesday February 11th Margaret Faultless gave an absorbing and illuminating lecture-recital to the Friends of the University Library on performance practice at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries taking … Continue reading →

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Thomas Busby: the model for MusiCB3?

Posted on 15 September 2014 by sw508

If the composer, writer and musician Thomas Busby had been alive today he would have been in his element delighting in the ability to get online and blog away to his heart’s content – hot competition though for us here … Continue reading →

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From the Stacks: a box of delights

Posted on 18 July 2014 by sw508

This is the first of a new series of posts where we take an item or two from the thousands in the music stacks which has caught our eye for one reason or another and home in to find out … Continue reading →

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