Men, Women and Guitars in Romantic England
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley by Professor Christopher Page. With a player's insight (a guitar of 1825 is my main instrument) this lecture explores the experience of the Regency guitarist: the day-to day business of buying and learning the instrument for the purposes of cutting a figure as a salon amateur or indeed as a professional (to the extent that such a career was feasible - an issue to be explored). It will consider the availability of sheet-music with arrangements of opera favourites, the rise of the governess guitar teacher, the struggle of enthusiasts to cope with contemporary prejudices against the guitar, and the miseries of slipping pegs, breaking strings and damp. The role of the newspapers in advertising instruments, concerts and new music will be an underlying theme of this and several other lectures in the series. (from gresham.ac.uk)
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