Ancient music' enjoyed a vogue in eighteenth-century London, with professional and amateur music societies, including the Academy of Ancient Music and the Madrigal Society, meeting regularly to perform sixteenth- and seventeenth-century polyphony. This lecture explores a striking aspect of London's cultural life, and reveals how the music of a Portuguese composer - Duarte Lobo - made its way into the favoured repertory of the City's musical antiquarians.

Dr Owen Rees, Queen's College Oxford

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