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Musical Travels Through England

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A witty, observant travelogue of musical life across England that blends personal anecdote, satirical commentary, and practical reportage on performers, institutions, and teaching. The narrator describes provincial concerts, opera and patronage, and charitable music training while critiquing reliance on foreign models and urging greater public support and reform. Journal-like entries alternate with memoir and reflection, considering instrumentation, taste, pedagogy, and the social place of music in polite society.

Speedily will be published,

An Enquiry into the Present State

OF THE

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES.

To which will be prefixed,

The Overture to the last Eclipse of the Moon;

And, a Dissertation on the Structure and Use

OF THE

Celestial Bow, commonly called the Rain-Bow.


By JOEL COLLIER, Organist.


Avia Pieridum perago loca nullius antè Trita solo.

Lucr.


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