Collection Summary
Collection Title
Edinburgh Society of Musicians
The music collection of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians. It consists of glees and other part songs, chamber music, vocal scores, other scores, and works of musical criticism, periodicals and concert programmes. The Society, founded in 1887, had acquired material from the collections of earlier 18th- and 19th-century Edinburgh music societies, including the Edinburgh Harmonists’ Society which was formed in 1826, the Edinburgh Catch Club (18th century) and the St George Quartette Club. Includes the surviving archive of the Society dating from its foundation to 1982, though there is also some material from earlier Edinburgh musical groups. It includes minute books, membership lists, papers and correspondence, reports, menu cards, photographs, press-cuttings and other memorabilia. As such this collection of both printed and manuscript material offers an unusual insight into Edinburgh’s musical life during the 18th and the 19th century.
Format
- Printed music
- Books
- Journals/Newspapers
- Concert programmes
- Photographs
- Press cuttings
- Ephemera
- Private papers/diaries/letters
- Corporate/business records
Strength(s)
Musical life in Edinburgh in the 18th & 19th centuries
Date range of collection
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Location Details
National Library of Scotland, Music Collections
George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW United Kingdom Open Map
Email
music@nls.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)131 623 3700
Fax
+44 (0)131 623 3701
Visiting Information
Photocopying
Collections Overview
Large reference collection of printed, manuscript and audio-visual music material, including books, scores, periodicals, audio, video and multi-media formats. Legal deposit library.
For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record
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Custodial History
Purchased by the Library in 1982
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