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‘That delightful country’: Using Charles Burney's travel account to explore pre-Risorgimento Italian musical culture

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Forum Italicum : A Journal of Italian Studies

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Abstract

Forum Italicum, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 563-600, November 2025.
In 1770 the English music critic Charles Burney traveled to Italy to gather information for hisGeneral History of Music(1776–1789). He viewed Italian music as the leading force in the music of his day and published an account of his travels in 1771, in ...