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Jeremy Barlow: Publications, Papers and Recordings by Subject

Subject headings listed alphabetically (click to go to each section):

THE BEGGAR'S OPERA

The Music of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera

performing edition, restoring the music to 18th c. format, adaptable to varying forces. Hardback edition includes critical commentary and history of tunes. Oxford University Press (1990). (download a pdf copy - 1.2MB)

music.enquiry@oup.co.uk 

Published Arrangements of The Beggar's Opera, 1729-1990

article, Musical Times (October 1990).

The Beggar’s Opera

2 CDs, complete recording based on above edition, with cast including Bob Hoskins and Sarah Walker, winner of Edison Award, Broadside Band, Hyperion CDA 66591/2. www.hyperion-records.co.uk

The Beggar’s Opera: Original Songs and Airs

CD tracing history of nine tunes, with Patrizia Kwella (soprano) and Paul Elliott (tenor) with the Broadside Band, Harmonia Mundi HMC 901071.  
www.harmoniamundi.com

The Beggar’s Opera

musical arrangements for TV production directed by Jonathan Miller, with Roger Daltry as Macheath. Video: RM Arts 079 207-3.

 

"But at present keep your own secret": Dances in The Beggar's Opera

paper for the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society conference On Common Ground 5: Dance in Drama, Drama in Dance.

 
 

"The good, the bad and the ugly": Harmonising ballad opera tunes in the 18th century.

paper for the John Rich conference 2008.

 

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BROADSIDE BALLADS

Broadside

Ballad, revised entry (section 7 of Ballad) in latest edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
grove@macmillan.co.uk
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Guide to broadside ballads

short article, Early Music Today (Oct/Nov 1998).
emt@rhinegold.co.uk

 

‘Cuckolds all a row’

review of Broadside Ballads ed. Skeaping, in Early Music, Oxford University Press, Vol. 34 No. 3 (August 2006)
 

 

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EARLY DANCE AND DANCE MUSIC
(See also Shakespeare below)

Le Balet Comique de la Royne, 1581

performing edition (unpublished) of the music, recorded for BBC Radio (1995).
jrmybarlow@aol.com

Pipe and Tabor

article, Early Music Today (June/July 1997).
emt@rhinegold.co.uk

Twelve Transcribed Italian Treatises and Collections in the Tradition of Domenico da Piacenza (A. William Smith’s)

review, Dance Research, published by Oxford University Press, Vol. 15 No. 1, (Summer 1997).

Music for the Basse Dance

paper at University of Leeds/North East Early Music Forum conference "The Art and Instruction of Good Dancing (1987)".

When is dance music intended for dancing?

paper at National Early Music Association international conference "The Marriage of Music and Dance" (August 1991).

Ground, hornpipe, dump and jig: English vernacular keyboard style, 1530-1700

paper at National Early Music Association Conference "The Hornpipe", and published as part of conference proceedings (1993).

Music for Domestic Pleasure

paper on17th English harpsichord music in MSS and published collections, including an examination of the saraband’s transformation from a fast into a slow dance over time, at Museum of London Purcell Tercentenary conference "Music for a While" (April 1995).

The minuet remembered

paper on survival and revival of the minuet in the 19th and 20th centuries, given as The Early Dance Circle Annual Lecture (1998).

Honneur a la Dance. A Musical Analysis of Le Premier Ballet in Le Balet Comique de la Royne, 1581

paper at the Institute for Historical Dance Practice international conference "Terpsichore 1450-1900", Ghent, Belgium, and published as part of proceedings (2000). IHDP, Schedelstr. 109, B-9040, Gent, Belgium.

"Mockmusic" and the Revival of Antimasque Traditions in the Restoration

paper at Early Dance Circle conference "Charles II – Restoration or Continuation" (2002). david.wilson@ntlworld.com

Il Ballarino: Italian Dances c.1600

CD, Broadside Band, Hyperion Helios CDH 55059.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk

Danses populaires françaises: Arbeau, Orchésographie, 1588

CD, Broadside Band, Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901152
www.harmoniamundi.com

Popular Tunes in 17th Century England

CD, Broadside Band, Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901039. www.harmoniamundi.com.
 

"J'ai deffault de la dance" : The place of Arbeau’s Orchésographie in histories of western social dance

paper for the Early Dance Circle 6th Biennial Conference, 2008: Dancing Master or Hop Merchant? The role of the dance teacher through the ages.

A Dance through Time: Illustrations of Dancing, 1300-2000

book, to be published by The Bodleian Library, Oxford.

 

For further dance recordings, contact the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society: www.dhds.org.uk

 

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MUSIC FROM ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

John Hebden (fl. 1740s), Flute Sonata No. 1 in D

performing edition, Oxford University Press (1978).
music.enquiry@oup.co.uk

Henry Holcombe (1693-1750), Three Airs for the Flute

performing edition, Schott & Co. Ltd (1977).

James Oswald (1710-1769), Airs for the Seasons, selection, 4 vols: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

performing edition, Chester Music (1984). (See recording below).
music@musicsales.co.uk

Thomas Roseingrave (1690-1766), Flute Sonata in D

performing edition, Oxford University Press (1978).

C. F. Weideman (d. 1782), Flute Sonata No. 5 in D

performing edition, Oxford University Press (1980).

C. F. Weideman (d. 1782), Flute Sonata No. 2 in E minor

performing edition, Oxford University Press (1980).

Richard Leppert’s Music and Image

review, Folk Music Journal, Vol. 6 No. 5 (1994). 
www.efdss.org

Musick at the Wells: Social Music from the Pleasure Resorts of the 18th Century

CD, The Band of Musick, Dragoman, DCD201.

James Oswald (1710-1769): Airs for the Seasons

delightful suites with Scottish folk flavour by Scotland’s leading baroque composer, CD, Broadside Band, Dorian DIS-80164.
www.dorian.com

 

English Airs and Dances: 16 easy to intermediate pieces from 18th-century
England for Violin (Flute or Oboe) and Keyboard, and optional Cello (Bassoon)

performing edition with CD
(see Broadside Band Recordings for samples)'
, Schott Music (2006)

 
 

Vaudeville et Menuet: 16 easy to intermediate pieces from 18th-century
France for Violin (Flute or Oboe) and Keyboard, and optional Cello (Bassoon)

performing edition with CD
(see Broadside Band Recordings for samples)', Schott Music (2006)

 
 

Tune up the fiddle! 16 easy to intermediate pieces from 18th-century
Sweden for Violin (Flute or Oboe) and Keyboard, and optional Cello (Bassoon)

performing edition with CD
(see Broadside Band Recordings for samples)', Schott Music (2006)

 
 

Carolan's Concerto: 15 Easy to Intermediate Pieces from 18th-cnetury Ireland for Flute (Violin or Oboe) and Keyboard, and optional Cello (Bassoon)

performing edition (co-edited with Patrick Steinbach) with CD
(see Broadside Band Recordings for samples) , Schott Music (2007)

 

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HOGARTH

Music in England in the time of Hogarth

compilation CD with booklet essay, Harmonia Mundi HMUK 986002T.
www.harmoniamundi.com

 

The Enraged Musician: Hogarth’s Musical Imagery

full length book with 180 illustrations, Ashgate (2005). www.Ashgate.com

 

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MISCELLANEOUS

The Revival of Monteverdi’s Operas in the Twentieth Century

article in Monteverdi, English National Opera Guide 45 (1992).

Ruth van Baak Griffioen’s Jacob van Eyck’s Der Fluyten Lusthof (1644-c1655)

review in Early Music, Vol. 20 No. 3 (August 1992).
www.em.oupjournals.org

Encounters with Chopin: Fanny Erskine’s Paris Diary, 1847-8

article in Chopin Studies 2, ed. Rink and Samson, Cambridge University Press (1994).
information@cup.cam.ac.uk

A different beat (on teaching medieval music to junior music students)

article in Early Music Today (August/September 2000).
emt@rhinegold.co.uk

Taylor made (on harpist William Taylor and early harps)

article in Early Music Today (December/January 2001).
emt@rhinegold.co.uk

Folk lore (on teaching English folk music in schools)

article in Music Teacher (November 2001).
music.teacher@rhinegold.co.uk

 

Take me to your leader (conductors in baroque music)

article in Early Music Today (Dec 2005/January 2006)

 
 

The Cat & the Fiddle

book published by The Bodleian Library, Oxford.

 

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NURSERY RHYMES

Eleven Nursery Songs from a Plymouth Family

article, English Dance and Song, Volume 59 No. 1, Spring 1997, English Folk Dance and Song Society.
www.efdss.org

Old English Nursery Rhymes

CD, Vivien Ellis and Tim Laycock with the Broadside Band, Saydisc CD-SDL 419.
www.harmoniamundi.com

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PLAYFORD TUNES

The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford’s Dancing Master, 1651-c.1728

edition showing variants, misprints between the 18 original editions, Faber Music (1985).
information@fabermusic.com

Playford’s maggots

article, Early Music Today, (April/May 2001).
emt@rhinegold.co.uk

Tunes in The English Dancing Master (1651): John Playford’s accidental misprints?

paper for conference John Playford and The English Dancing Master 1651, published with proceedings, Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society (2001).
www.dhds.org.uk

Country Dances: John Playford’s English Dancing Master 1651

CD, Broadside Band, Harmonia Mundi HM 1109.
www.harmoniamundi.com

John Playford’s Popular Tunes

CD, Broadside Band, Amon Ra CD-SAR 28.
www.harmoniamundi.com

English Country Dances: Playford 1651-1703

CD, Broadside Band, Saydisc CD-SDL 393.
www.harmoniamundi.com

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SHAKESPEARE: MUSIC, SONG, DANCE
AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

150 entries on music, song and dance in Shakespeare’s time, Oxford University Press (2002).
www.oup-usa.org

Songs and Dances from Shakespeare

CD, Deborah Roberts (soprano) and John Potter (tenor) with the Broadside Band, Saydisc CD-SDL 409.
www.harmoniamundi.com

 

‘Woeful ballads’ and ‘filthy tunes’?

review of Shakespeare’s Songbook by Ross Duffin, in Early Music, Vol. 32 No. 4 (November 2004)

 

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