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The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain, 1905-2016

Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | music, performance, twentieth century, United Kingdom

The database contains entries of over 550 pageants (and growing). These list a wealth of information about individual historical pageants, sometimes in great detail. Insofar as records allow (and little trace remains of many pageants), we have sought to record details of the times and places of performances, those involved in organising and staging them, and how many people attended. For each pageant, we have also sought to record, again as fully as possible, whether the pageant made or lost money, details of the music that was played and who composed it, and synopses of the individual episodes which featured. In addition, for each pageant record we provide lists of the names of the notable historical figures that featured in the action. Last but certainly not least, we have prepared a detailed summary essay explaining each pageant and placing it in its wider historical context. We have information on all – or nearly all – of the largest pageants performed in twentieth-century Britain as well as a broadly representative sample of smaller pageants.

Data type: images, spatial, text

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The Songwork Catalogue

Drama and Theatre Studies, Performance and Live Art | dance, interviews, Judaism, music, performance, photos, twenty-first century

The project archive of the 2017 Judaica laboratory phase contains approximately 2TB of audiovisual materials: primarily audiovisual recordings generated by the DCTV method, as well as recorded audio conversations, photos, and video essays.

Data type: audio, images, text, video

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The Origins of Early Modern Literature: Recovering Mid-Tudor Writing for a Modern Readership

English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | books, Early Modern, England, fiction, letters, music, non-fiction, plays, sixteenth century

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this project aims to redress the critical neglect of mid-Tudor writing, a period which saw the Reformation, the consolidation of the Tudor state, and the rise of English as a national language. Whilst there is a great deal of general interest in the history of this period, very little is known about its writers and the work they produce. During the three years of AHRC funding (from April 2005), the project team have compiled a searchable, on-line catalogue of literary works printed in English, 1519-1579 - the decades which precede, and lay the foundations for, the canonical period of English Renaissance Literature. This catalogue - which is accessible from this website - includes details of titles, authors (including the authors of liminary material, such as prefaces and dedicatory poems), printers, booksellers, dedicatees, entries in the Stationers Register, the format in which books were published, and type faces and foreign languages used. It also contains a list of contents for each work, and information about genres, subjects, sources and literary coteries, as well as short essays on the context for each work. The catalogue significantly adds to the information available on ESTC and other bibliographical resources, providing scholars, students and members of the general public with a first point-of-call for research on works from this formative period of early modern literature.

Data type: text

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The Baudelaire Song Project

Music, Musicology | France, French, music, nineteenth century, translation

The Baudelaire Song Project researches and brings together for the first time all the song settings ever of Baudelaire’s poetry, looking at classical music and popular music settings, in French original and in translation, with music scores and in audio format.

Data type: spatial, text

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century

A comprehensive catalogue of 27 Scottish manuscript sources of violin music from before 1750, with around 3500 tunes all searchable by name, Theme Code and other features.

Data type: text

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century

Details of over 200 Scottish printed sources of vernacular violin music from before 1850, along with images and indexes of 22 books from the University of Glasgow and Perth's A K Bell Library. You can browse the collection, search for tunes and composers, and play the tunes.

Data type: images

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The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue

Ethnography and Anthropology, Languages and Literature | England, ethnography, folklore, irish, music, performance, Scotland, twentieth century, United States, Wales

The James Madison Carpenter Collection is a major collection of traditional song and drama, plus some items of traditional instrumental music, dance, custom, narrative and children's folklore, from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the USA, documented in the period 1927-55.

Data type: text

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Singing in tone: Text-setting constraints in Southeast Asia

This dataset contains supplementary materials to the paper Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song , published in the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages [TAL-2016]. It contains CSV data collected from a corpus of 20 Vietnamese songs, as well as R code to replicate the analysis reported in the paper.

Data type: text

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PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources

History of Music, Music | Europe, fifteenth century, music, sixteenth century

metadata resource containing mise-en-page information on all extant manuscripts (c.300) and editions (c.80) of Western polyphony from c.1480 to c.1530

Data type: text

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Piston, Pen and Press

Economic and Social History, History | England, fiction, music, nineteenth century, non-fiction, Scotland, working class

Here you can search or browse our records of industrial workers and literary culture across Scotland and the North of England. We have entries for individuals, for literary works (many including transcriptions of poems, songs or prose extracts), and for associations that sponsored literary activities and were connected to industry.

Data type: audio, spatial, text, video

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