This collaborative project will create an online database of holdings of concert programmes held in libraries, archives and museums in the UK and Ireland, providing access to a vital source of information about musical life from the eighteenth century to the present day. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and is being led by Cardiff University in collaboration with the Royal College of Music.
These largely hidden – and therefore significantly underused – documents will be of enormous interest to performers, musicologists, local, economic, social, cultural and theatre historians and also to music librarians.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TEST SITE ONLY. The database is hosted by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and will be searchable by concert-giving institutions, concert venues, date, collectors, performers and other fields.
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