麻豆社

Back up to: The Essay

1. The lost Ukrainian film score

   Leo Geyer describes piecing together Dziga Vertov's music plan for Man with a Movie Camera
2. The English music historian

   Sophie Coulombeau looks at the ambitions of teacher scholar and composer Charles Burney.
3. A composer's South African journey

   Leah Broad explains why composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor emigrated to 50s South Africa.
4. A Ukrainian Jewish Fiddle player

   Phil Alexander delves into the rediscovered repertoire of Motl Reyder.
5. The influential Italian singing master

   Brianna Robertson-Kirkland demonstrates the fashionable singing style in 1780s Edinburgh.
6. Chorus girls in Paris

   Adjoa Osei has been delving into the personal archives of some 1930s Plaza Tiller dancers.
7. Esther Inglis's musical self portraits

   Eleanor Chan delves into the world of a Huguenot bookmaker who used music as a code.
8. The Star-Spangled Banner, Jacobins and Abolitionists

   Oskar Jensen on what links Liverpool politics, a street ballad and the American anthem.
9. Tudor music and politics

   Christina Faraday tells us how Robert Cecil used a song to curry favour with Elizabeth I.
10. Teresa del Riego's suffrage anthem

    Naomi Paxton shares research on a suffrage song with a special performance by Lucy Stevens