The management of nineteenth-century Dublin music societies in the public and private spheres : the Philharmonic Society and the Dublin Musical Society / Catherine Ferris -- Three Madrigal Societies in Early nineteenth-Century England / James Hobson -- 'A Melodious Phenomenon' : the Institutional Influence on Town-Hall Music-Making / Rachel E. Milestone -- A Home for the 'Phil' : Liverpool's First Philharmonic Hall (1849) / Fiona M. Palmer -- James Mapleson and the 'National Opera House' / Paul Rodmell -- Musical Diplomacy and Mary Gladstone's Diary / Phyllis Weliver -- The expansion and development of the music degree syllabus at Trinity College Dublin during the nineteenth century / Lisa Parker -- The music exams of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1859-1919 / David Wright -- Resisting the Empire? Public Music Examinations in Melbourne, 1896-1914 / Kieran Crichton -- Birmingham Cathedral, Royle Shore and the Revival of Early English Church Music / Suzanne Cole -- On the Beat : The Victorian Policeman as Musician / Rachel Cowgill -- The British military as a musical institution, c.1780-c.1860 / Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow -- Edward Jones, 'Bard to the King' : the Crown, Welsh National Music, and Identity in late-Georgian Britain / Meirion Hughes.