A scrapbook of programmes and performance ephemera from Marylebone Gardens, 1730 to 1835. The collection includes plans, press cuttings, tickets, iconographic material and printed music: the end of the scrapbook features sheet music from numerous songs which are advertised as being sung at Marylebone Gardens, and are chiefly taken from magazines published in 1753. There is one programme in the collection from “A grand concert of vocal and instrumental music”, which took place on 01/09/1772.

Arrangement:
Though there is no discernible absolute arrangement of the scrapbook, the earlier material tends to be near the beginning of the item. In addition, the majority of printed music is at the end of the scrapbook.

1730 - 1855

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Not Specific

• Westminster

• 19th century - early Victorian 1837-1850
• 18th century - late 1776-1799
• 18th century - mid 1730-1775
• 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875
• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
• 19th century - early 1800-1836

• Press Cuttings
• Illustrations
• Tickets

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The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.