This project consists of a number of related subprojects that seek to broaden the understanding of music in the nineteenth-century theatre. It challenges the hegemony of ‘opera studies’ by enlarging the range of theatrical repertories involving music that come into the domain of musicological study.  The project is ungoing, and currently consists off a number of conference papers.  Titles of unpublished work follow:
‘The air connu and the Literary pot-pourri, 1754-1890′
‘All about Authority: Genre, Institution and the Musical Ontology of Theatre’
‘Music, Theatre and Memory: Rewriting the History of Music for the Parisian Stage’
La musique, le salon et la presse périodique parisienne, 1850-1875′
‘Dancing on the Table: Comédie-vaudeville and the Séance’
Database: ‘Music in the Second-Empire Theatre’Â (https://mitset.fmc.ac.uk/index.html#/)