Charles Burney in Bologna - 24 August, 1770

from Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney, page 92:

After dinner an itinerant band stopt under my window who executed several sinfonies and single movements extreamly well – ‘twas the best I had heard here. However the music of the churches here, which the common people hear every day, is a good school for them and enables them all to sing with taste and expression of the right sort.

cite as

Charles Burney, and Herbert Edmund Poole (ed.), Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney (London, 1974), p. 92. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444226240511 accessed: 14 December, 2024

location of experience: Bologna

Listeners

Charles Burney
musicologist, Musician, Writer
1726-1814

Experience Information

Date/Time 24 August, 1770
Medium live
Listening Environment in private, indoors

Originally submitted by Gorwel Owen on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:57:20 +0100
Approved on Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:17:12 +0000