The History of Street Performance: ‘Music by handle’ and the Silencing of Street Musicians in the Metropolis A discussion of the history of busking and street music...
Debussy - Text and Ideas: Fête galante and the Salon of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a resurgence...
Harmony in the Lowest Home: The Guitar and the Labouring Poor By the 1830s, guitars could be bought very cheaply at...
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Early, 1913-1945 On the day Penguin publishes Benjamin Britten: A Life in...