The Madrigal Society
The Madrigal Society is a British association of amateur musicians, whose purpose is to sing madrigals. It may be the oldest club of its kind in England.[1]:96 It was founded by John Immyns. Sir John Hawkins was an early member of the club and, in his General History of the Science and Practice of Music of 1776, gives the date of its foundation as 1741;[1]:99[2] the earliest documentary evidence dates from 1744.
In April 1940, during The Blitz on London, the society suspended its regular meetings, and did not resume them until after the end of the Second World War.[3]:33
References
- 1 2 Reginald Nettel (January 1948). The Oldest Surviving English Musical Club: Some Historical Notes on the Madrigal Society of London. The Musical Quarterly 34 (1): 97–108. (subscription required).
- ↑ John Hawkins (1776). A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, five volumes. London: T. Payne.
- ↑ J. G. Craufurd (1955–1956). The Madrigal Society. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 82nd Session (1955–1956): 33–46. (subscription required).
Further reading
- 'Brief Chronicle of the Last Month.' The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, vol. 1, no. 10, (1845): 79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3370928.
- Cole, Suzanne. Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, (2008). https://boydellandbrewer.com/thomas-tallis-and-his-music-in-victorian-england-hb.html
- Craufurd, J. G. 'The Madrigal Society.' Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 82, (1955): 33–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/765866.
- Nettel, Reginald. ‘The Oldest Surviving English Music Club: Some Historical Notes on the Madrigal Society of London’. Musical Quarterly 34 (1948): 97–108. http://www.jstor.org/stable/739276.
- Hobson, James. 'Musical Antiquarianism and the Madrigal Revival in England, 1726–1851.' PhD dissertation, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687194
- Hobson, James. ‘Three Madrigal Societies in Nineteenth-Century England.’ In Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Paul Rodmell, 33–55. Aldershot: Ashgate, (2012).
- Lovell, Percy. ‘“Ancient” Music in Eighteenth-Century England’. Music & Letters 60 (1979): 401–415. http://www.jstor.org/stable/733505.
- Oliphant, Thomas. A Brief Account of the Madrigal Society, from Its Institution in 1741 up to the Present Period. Calkin & Budd, London (1835). https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ivXJVrg0YagC&printsec
- Opheim, Vernon. ‘The English Romantic Madrigal’. DMA dissertation, University of Illinois, 1971.
- Young, Percy M. ‘The Madrigal in the Romantic Era’. American Choral Review. Journal of the American Choral Foundation, Inc. 4 (1977): 35–61.
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