“What was his surprize, when the Thunder ceasing to roll, a full strain of melodious Music sounded in the air.”

Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde last month, Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies last week - I’ve been experiencing the contemporary Gothic musical lately.   Whilst thinking about the ways in which music may be presented as Gothic, I started wondering how they did it in eighteenth-century theatre.  As I was going to the British Library anyway, I decided to see what I could find out from their archives about the music of Matthew Lewis’s The Castle Spectre.  This seemed the most obvious work to start investigating, for whilst reading the play I had noticed the prominence given to the name of th