Archives relating to music

This guide to archives of music is not intended to be exhaustive. It complements the archives catalogue, which includes a subject search facility and the Music subject gateway.

  • Antiphoner, ref: MS864 date(s): late 16th century 
  • Antiphoner and noted Missal fragments, ref: MS639 date(s): 1100-1300                       
  • Banchieri's 'The Nobleness of the Ass, ref: MS487 date(s): 19th century           
  • Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor, ref: MS435 date(s): 1934             
  • Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835), ref: MS1075, date(s): 19th century
  • Book of psalm and hymn tunes, ref: MS439, date(s): 1800-1825         
  • British Library music manuscripts, ref: MS1078, date(s): 19th century   
  • Christus factus est, ref: MS1074, date(s): late 18th century              
  • Elvey family and Skeats family papers, ref: MS944,date(s): c1770-c1870
  • Francesco Geminiani sonata, ref: MS958, date(s): 1829        
  • Helmore Thomas, ref: MS1087, date(s): 1871
  • Hipkins, Alfred James, ref: MS943, date(s): c1860-1936
  • Hotchkiss, John, ref: MS954, date(s): 1952
  • Italian solo cantatas, ref: MS1077, date(s): c1740                           
  • Maitland, John Alexander Fuller (1856-1936), ref: MS1076, date(s): early 20th century
  • Marley, Bayley, ref: MS1090, date(s): 1750
  • Medieval choirbook, ref: MS910, date(s): 14th century                   
  • Missa O quam suavis, ref: MS1071, date(s): c1927                             
  • Music fragment, ref: MS839, date(s): 16th century                          
  • Perti Giacomo Antonio (1661-1756), ref: MS1073,  date(s): late 18th century
  • Seis Modinhas com accompanhamento de Pianoforte de Differentes Autores, ref: MS1072, date(s): 18th century
  • Sequentiary, ref: MS845, date(s): 14th century
  • Smoldon, William, ref: MS930,date(s): undated [c700-c1599] 1980
  • Union of Graduates in Music, ref: MS841,date(s): 1893-1972