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Major accessions to repositories in 2013 relating to Music

Local

Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives: Old Aberdeen House Branch

  • Banff Pipe Band: minute book 1921-1969 (ACC1835)

Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives

  • Isobel Evans, flute teacher and amateur photographer: colour photographs documenting her trips to her flute classes in schools across Anglesey 2000 (WM/2450)
  • Menai Bridge Brass Band: additional records c1894-1939 (WDAS/174 onwards)

Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Service

  • Dudley Stuart John Moore, actor, comedian and musician: letters written to Peter Cork, Moore's music teacher, with oral history interview 1980-1994 (ACQ20013/051 ACQ20013/069)

Barnsley Archive and Local Studies Department

  • Barnsley Junior Operatic Society: records c1900-1999 (A/3498/G)

Ceredigion Archives

  • National Eisteddfod: Aberystwyth: minutes, programmes, sample of printed items (e.g. tickets), stationery and other misc paperwork c1952 (D/EIS/14)

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Vernon Ladies Choir: scrapbooks containing photographs and corresp 1969-2013 (D 8439)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

  • Bishop & Son, organ builders, London: photographs and prints showing organs produced by the firm 1820-1981 (Acc 2756)
  • St Clement Danes parish, Westminster: bell maintenance log book with photographs, some rel to bomb damage 1905-2004 (Acc 2752)

Cornwall Record Office

  • Truro Methodist Church Choir: minutes 1975-2005 (MRT/1480-1482)

Denbighshire Record Office

  • Owen Williams, composer: personal papers, programmes, photographs, notes and publications 1877-1956 (DD/DM/1820)

Dundee City Archives

  • Friends of the Caird Hall Organ, Dundee: minutes, corresp, other records c1980-2011 (GD/FCHO)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Edinburgh Royal Choral Union: records incl minutes, financial records, corresp, other records 1866-2004 (Accession 933)

Essex Record Office

  • Bell ringing records incl peal book of Joseph Jennings of Great Barfield 1927-2011 (Acc. A13633)
  • Oral history interviews and other recordings for 'History of Jazz in Essex Project' 2013 (Acc. SA680)
  • Recordings from the Leigh-on-Sea Folk Festival 1991-2013 (Accs. SA658, SA676, SA677)

Glamorgan Archives (formerly Glamorgan Record Office)

  • Barry Male Voice Choir: photographs of rehearsals and performances, certificates, centenary booklet 1923-2009 (D969)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association of Church Bellringers: annual reports 1887-1915 (D7644)
  • Papers of the late Mary Bliss of Beech Pike, Elkstone, local historian rel to church bells 1889-2000 (D13047)
  • Notes on index to and musical realisation of the Old Sodbury "quire books", 1790-1845 belonging to Samuel Isaacs senior and junior and containing West Gallery music, (The original books are held as part of the parish archive of Old Sodbury under the reference P302 MI 6) 1790-1845 (D13237)

Gwent Archives

  • Gwent Bach Society: minutes, accounts and photographs c1950-2003 (D5947)

Gwynedd Archives, Meirionnydd Record Office

  • Dolgelley Competitive Choir: account book 1909 (Z/M/7160)

Hackney Archives Department

  • Hoxton Hall Community Centre: records rel to the hall's time as a music hall, temperance mission, hostel and youth arts centre 1864-2013 (D/S/073)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton: additional ms music in Jane Austen's hand 18th cent (28A11)
  • Southern Orchestral Concert Society: minutes, accounts, membership and concert records and material rel to Friends, with historical material on the Society and its founder, Kathleen Merritt 1952-2012 (79A13)
  • Waynflete Singers, Winchester: scrapbooks incl photographs, reviews, magazines 1970-2012 (142A13W)
  • Winchester Community Choir Committee: records incl minutes, photographs and audio recordings 2005-2012 (49A13W)

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

  • Albion Ladies Musical Society: minutes, reports and other records 1933-1996 (C DSAL)
  • Hull Philharmonic Orchestra: corresp and other papers 2008-2011 (C DSPH)
  • West Hull Ladies' Union Choir: minutes, photographs and programmes 1925-2006 (C DSWH)

Isle of Wight Record Office

  • Maurice Soester, composer: composition for the Sandown and Shanklin Coronation March, 1937 1937 (2013/059)

Lancashire Archives

  • Nelson-in-Pendle Orchestra: minutes and other records 1889-1999 (DDX2976)
  • North West Sound Archive: minutes 2004-2010 (LCC)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Roy Palmer, author: research material rel to "The Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland (Sycamore Press, 1985" and sound recording of "The ballad of the Leicester railroad" c1980-1989 (DE8556)
  • Leicester Royal Opera House: specifications for builders tendering for the construction work 1876 (DE8526)

Liverpool Record Office

  • Liverpool Bell Ringers: records c1930-2001 (367 BEL)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Walter Thomas Gaze Cooper, composer: compositions and newscutting book 20th cent (8479)
  • Bingham and District choral society: minutes, corresp, press cuttings and photographs 1972-1996 (8441)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

  • Plymstock Amateur Operatic Society: minutes, treasurer's reports, rules, membership records, programmes and papers incl papers of related societies 1960-2008 (3968)

Redbridge Local Studies and Archives

  • Ilford Choral Society: minutes and concert programmes 1945-2012 (235)

Shropshire Archives

  • Much Wenlock Festival: minutes, scrapbooks, cuttings and pamphlets 1981-2008 (acc 8784)

Somerset Heritage Centre

  • Bath and Wells Diocesan Choral Association: festival service books 1911-1975 (A\DQT)
  • Ilminster Music Club: additional records 2003-2008 (A\CVS)

Stockport Archive Service

  • T B Sidebottom, violinist: papers, corresp and ephemera as Halle Orchestra violinist c1900-1999 (D2116)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

  • Waterside Male Voice Choir, Ipswich: minute books (2) and misc papers 1937-1975 (HD3065)

Surrey History Centre

  • Lewis Orchard, researcher: collected research papers and exhibition material rel to Dame Ethel Smyth, composer and suffragist 20th cent (9180)

Tyne and Wear Archives

  • Newcastle and District Society of Organists: minutes, other records 1909-1986 (SX161)

West Sussex Record Office

  • Clifford Pinhey, organist, Boxgrove Priory: papers 20th cent (Acc 17200)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

  • Leeds City Varieties Music Hall: records 1900-2008 (WYL2410)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Malmesbury Abbey Music Society: minutes and papers 1971-2012 (4142)
  • Trowbridge Philharmonic Choral Society: additional records, AGM minutes 1988-2002 (3016)
  • Trowbridge Amateur Operatic Society: additional minutes 1926-1940 (3499)
  • Trowbridge Orchestra: minutes corresp and papers 1990-2012 (4192)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

  • Roy Palmer, musicologist: research papers rel to history of Worcestershire folklore 20th-21st cent (15525)

National

British Film Institute, Special Collections

  • Kenneth V Jones, composer: scripts and scores 20th cent

British Library, Music Collections

  • Dennis Arundell, opera producer, writer and performer: corresp, typescripts of librettos, photographs and other papers c1910-1970 (MS Mus.1790)
  • Brian Havergal, composer: autograph manuscript of Symphony no. 18 1961 (MS Mus. 1791)
  • Percy Aldridge Grainger, composer and pianist: corresp 1936 (Mus. Dep. 2013/5)
  • George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, composer: autograph music manuscripts 1932-1998 (MS Mus. 1782)

National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services

  • Angus McBean, Welsh photographer: visitors' book from his Endell Street, Covent Garden studio with over 1000 signatures incl Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Marlene Dietrich, Spike Milligan and all four Beatles c1949-1987 (NLW MS 24041D)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

  • Ben Forde, police officer, singer and author: corresp, essays, poetry, photographs, audio cassettes and CDs 1946-2012 (D4547/1-2)

Special

Black Cultural Archives

  • Carnaby Echoes project: DVD and booklet on the Carnaby Echoes project, a commission by artist Lucy Harrison on the areas' music heritage 2013 (AC2013/20)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre

  • Gavin Greig, folk song collector and teacher: additional notebooks and related material 19th cent-1996 (Acc No 686)

Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections

  • David Richmond Arnold Evans, music lecturer: personal papers, music MSS c1980-2013 (2013/3)

Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York

  • Richard Orton, musician: corresp, diaries, scores and recorded music c1950-2009 (ORT)

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

  • Brian Havergal, composer: papers 1876-1972 (DM2537)
  • Edgar Hunt, musician and biographer: music, minutes, photographs, family papers, corresp and photographs rel to his biography of R L Pearsall, composer 1850-2001 (DM2609)
  • Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, composer: misc papers 1947-2005 (DM2617)
  • Women's Liberation Music Archive: archive 1970-2011 (DM2598)

Cambridge University: Selwyn College Archives

  • Cambridge University, Selwyn College: papers and photographs rel to the Chapel Choir c1995-2004 (2012-13/055)

Cardiff University

  • Morfydd Llwyn Owen, musician: compositions incl orchestral, choral, piano, and chamber works, songs, and operas, personal memorabilia incl programmes, images, press clippings 1909-1918 (430)

Durham University Library, Special Collections

  • Peter Brophy, professor, editor in chief of "Singing the Faith" Methodist hymn book: personal papers rel to the creation and preparation of the Methodist hymn and song book "Singing the Faith", published by Hymns Ancient & Modern in September 2011 2008-2013 (PRA MS 21)

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

  • Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, singer: additional corresp 20th cent (Coll-1433)

Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit

  • Imperial College Choir: minutes, choir history and recordings 1953-1994

Kingston University Archives and Special Collections

  • David Heneker, writer and composer: papers rel to work incl drafts for musicals, publicity, and corresp 1920s-1990s (KUAS82)

Leeds University Library, Special Collections

  • Nell Moody (nee Burra), soprano: personal and work papers 1918-1996 (SPCOLL/2013/14)

Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections

  • 'Editions of You', music festival, Oxford: editions of music created by self-publishing and self-releasing musicians for the festival 2011 ('Editions of You' Collection)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Western Manuscripts

  • Oxford University Society of Change Ringers: records 19th-21st cent (Acc 9099)

Oxford University: Regent's Park College, Angus Library and Archive

  • Baptist Music Society: central minutes, South Wales branch records, choir records for Haven Green Chapel, Ealing 1948-2001 (Acc 362)

Salford University Archives and Special Collections

  • Roy Newsome, music conductor: brass band archive incl music scores, papers, audio recordings and other records c1850-2011 (RNA)

University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

  • Ralph William Downes, organist: papers rel to work as Royal Festival Hall organ consultant c1860-1991 (BOA)
  • Percy Marshall Young, musicologist: additional research papers, corresp and literary mss 1889-1994 (MS860)

University of Southampton Library

  • Thomas Bartlett, rector of Swanage: volume of psalms (c80) set to music (MS 366)