Catch and Glee Culture in Eighteenth-Century England

Contents

• A Thoroughly English Music: The Seventeenth-Century Background and Early Clubs
• Club Life in Eighteenth-Century London - The Academy of Vocal Music and The Madrigal Society
• The Catch Club
• The Expansion of London Catch Club Culture
• Provincial Catch and Glee Clubs
• The Catch and Glee in Other Performance Contexts
• The Glee: Aesthetics, Form and Poetry
• Epilogue: Later Reception of the Eighteenth-Century Catch and Glee
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index