Pink, A. (2005) When They Sing: the performance of songs in 18th-century English lodges. In: Stewart, T., (ed.) Transactions of the Fifth International Canonbury Conference: Freemasonry in Music and Literature. The Canonbury Papers (2). Canonbury Masonic Research Centre, London, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 0954349814
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British research libraries are full of eighteenth-century masonic materials that contain song texts, but the exact use to which these songs were put has remained elusive. Drawing upon a close reading of the sources and contemporary comment Andrew Pink proposes a model for organising this material, as a well a model for its performance
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | When They Sing: the performance of songs in 18th-century English lodges |
| Publication status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| ISBN: | 0954349814 |
| Publisher version: | http://www.canonbury.ac.uk/?bookshop/shop |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is available for purchase (£17.50 + £2.50 pp) from the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre. |
| Keywords: | masonic, music, songs, eighteenth-century, eighteenth century, freemasons, freemasonry, performance |
| UCL Eprints classification: | UCL Departments and Research Centres > UCL Services, Central Departments and Divisions > Office of the Vice-Provost (Academic and International) |
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