Musical Studies of Specific Houses and Domestic Music-Making

Bailey, Candace. Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.

_____________  Music & the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

_____________  Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Brooks, Jeanice. “Musical Monuments for the Country House: Music, Collection, and Display at Tatton Park.” Music & Letters 91, no. 4 (2010): 513-35.

Cave, Penelope. "Piano Lessons in the English Country House 1785-1845." PhD thesis, University of Southampton, 2013.

Faulds, Katrina. "Invitation pour la danse: Social Dance, Dance Music and Feminine Identity in the English Country House c.1770-1860." PhD thesis, University of Southampton, 2015.

Gifford, Gerald. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection at Burghley House. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

Goodman, Glenda. Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Martin, Cheryl. "The Music Collection of Thomas Baker of Farnham, Surrey." Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 44 (2013): 19-54.

McCleave, Sarah. "The Mackworth Collection: A Social and Bibliographical Resource." In Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain, edited by David Wyn Jones, 213-33. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 

Mullaney-Dignam, Karol. Music and Dancing at Castletown, County Kildare, 1759-1821. Maynooth Studies in Local History 98. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.

Rana, Leena. "Music and Elite Identity in the English Country House, c.1790-1840." PhD thesis, University of Southampton, 2012.

Stafford, Wendy. "The Arrangement to Play: Music at Uppark in the Long Nineteenth Century." PhD thesis, University of Southampton, 2018.

Troughton, Jane Elizabeth. "The Role of Music in the Yorkshire Country House." PhD thesis, University of York, 2015.

Wood, Caroline. "Music-Making in a Yorkshire Country House." In Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies I, edited by Bennett Zon, 209-24. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.