麻豆传媒

Background

I am a Research Associate on the "Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England's County Record Offices", an AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway and 麻豆传媒. I was also Editor of the Northamptonshire Victoria County History project between 2020 and 2026.

Qualifications

• PhD ('Music Publishing and Compositional Activity, 1650-1700’), AHRC-funded
• MMus, with Distinction
• PGDip in Archives and Records Management, with Distinction
• PGCE (Secondary Music)
• BMus (Hons), First Class

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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 麻豆传媒 upon Tyne. I co-edited, with Kirsten Gibson and Roz Southey, Music in North-East England, 1500-1800 (Boydell, 2020) and, with Simon D.I. Fleming, The Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650-1800 (Boydell, 2025).

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) and music activities at late 17th-century Carlisle Cathedral.

• Articles

  • Carter S. . Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 2022, 28(1).
  • Carter S, Gibson K. . The Library 2017, 18(4), 428-473.
  • Carter S. . Early Music History 2016, 35, 95-129.

• Book Chapters

  • Carter S. . In: Barbara Crosbie and Rosemary Sweet, ed. Lord Crewe and his Charity, 1674-1896: Philanthropy in North-East England. 2026. In Press.
  • Carter S. . In: Carter S; Fleming SDI, ed. The Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650-1800. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2025, pp.18-33.
  • Carter S, Fleming SDI. . In: Carter S; Fleming SDI, ed. The Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650-1800. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2025, pp.1-17.
  • Carter S. . 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, pp.21-38.
  • Gibson K, Carter S. . In: Carter S; Gibson K; Southey R, ed. Music in North-East England, 1500-1800. Martlesham, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2020, pp.192-215.
  • 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.

• Edited Books

  • Carter S, ed. . Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2026.
  • Carter S, Fleming SDI, ed. . Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2025.
  • Carter S, Gibson K, Southey R, ed. . Martlesham, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2020.

• Reviews

  • Carter S. . Eighteenth-Century Music 2024, 21(1), 65-66.
  • Carter S. . Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2021, 44(3), 316-318.
  • Tritton, S. 'Songs from the Shows', Review of Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson, eds., The Monthly mask of vocal musick 1702-1711. A facsimile edition. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). Early Music 2008, 36(4), 637-8.