Polite or Commercial Concerts?: Concert Management and Orchestral Repertoire in Edinburgh, Bath, Oxford, Manchester and Newcastle, 1730-1799\"Few periods in musical history [are] so shrouded in misconception and misinterpretation as eighteenth-century England,\" observed Paul Henry Lang. Gradually, however, scholars have engaged in rediscovering, sorting, and analysing the untapped volumes of eighteenth-century music materials. Much of this work has been centred on London. Jenny Burchell helps to prove that London was not representative. This book, a reworking of Burchell\'s doctoral thesis, provides clear-cut evidence that concert practices and norms could vary enormously from town to town.