Download or read book The Music Trade in Georgian England written by Michael Kassler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research has enabled aspects of the workings of the music trade in Georgian England to be reconstructed. Examined here are the activities of the music seller Longman & Broderip, and the firm's two successors, together with those of their rival, John Bland. A review of the development of musical copyright in this period is included, together with an investigation into the efforts of Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope to transform the ways in which music was printed and recorded, and Georg Jacob Vollweiler's endeavours to introduce music lithography into England.