Staff Profile
Background
I read music at the University of Hull, graduating in 2003 and winning the Special Prize in Music. I continued at Hull with an MMus supervised by Prof. Graham Sadler with a critical edition of secular works by early seventeenth-century French composer Étienne Moulinié. I completed a PhD at the University of Manchester in 2011 on the relationship between music publishing and compositional activity in seventeenth-century England supervised by Prof. Rebecca Herissone as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Musical Creativity in Restoration England’. I have taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the universities of Manchester and Newcastle. My research focuses on music in early modern England, particularly within the broader cultural contexts of print and book history.
Qualifications
- BMus (Hons), First Class
- MMus, with Distinction
- PhD ('Music Publishing and Compositional Activity, 1650-1700’), AHRC-funded
- PGCE (Secondary Music, University of Bristol)
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Research Interests
My research focuses on musical culture in early modern England. My published work includes articles on music ownership and circulation, the role of the publisher as music editor, and the sale of printed music outside London. Most recently, I have worked on the music print trade, networks and recreational music-making in Cambridge and Newcastle upon Tyne. I co-edited, with Kirsten Gibson and Roz Southey, Music in North-East England, 1500-1800 (Boydell, 2020).
Current Work
My current work continues to focus on printed music books in early modern England, placing them within the wider context of the full range of activities that comprise the commercial music trade. I am researching the movement of musical goods via the domestic coastal trade (thanks to funding from the Bibliographical Society) and evidence of music-making activities in the Duke of Northumberland’s archives at Alnwick Castle (thanks to funding from the Music & Letters Trust and the Bibliographical Society).
I am also editing the forthcoming Victoria County History Northamptonshire volume 8 on Towcester Hundred.
- Carter S. Thomas Mace and Music in Seventeenth-Century Cambridge. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 2021. Submitted.
- Carter S. Thomas Mace's Musick's Monument (1676) and his Subscribers in Late Seventeenth-Century England. In: Fleming S; Perkins M, ed. Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676-1820. New York: Routledge, 2022. In Press.
- Carter S, Gibson K, Southey R, ed. Music in North-East England, 1500-1800. Martlesham, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2020.
- Gibson K, Carter S. Amateur Music Making Amongst the Mercantile Community of Newcastle upon Tyne from the 1690s to the 1750s. In: Carter, S; Gibson, K; Southey, R, ed. Music in North-East England, 1500-1800. Martlesham, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2020.
- Carter S, Gibson K. Printed Music in the Provinces: Musical Circulation in Seventeenth-Century England and the Case of Newcastle upon Tyne Bookseller William London. The Library 2017, 18(4), 428-473.
- Carter S. 'Yong Beginners, Who Live in the Countrey': John Playford and the Printed Music Market in Seventeenth-Century England. Early Music History 2016, 35, 95-129.
- Carter S. Published Musical Variants and Creativity: An Overview of John Playford's Role as Editor. In: Rebecca Herissone and Alan Howard, ed. Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013, pp.87-104.