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Description: | About 500,000 items of printed music from the 16th century onwards; about 3,500 music manuscripts, and 45,000 books and periodicals on music. Legal deposit library for British publications, but greatly expanded by foreign material, purchased and donated, antiquarian and modern. Particular strengths on the performing arts side are opera (including scores, librettos and programmes), operetta, musicals, ballet and other theatrical music; also, a large collection of Victorian and Edwardian music-hall songs.; A readers' guide, "Music Collections" is available; it can also be found on the Library's website.
Bodleian Library: Music Section, University of Oxford, | Format: | Periodicals Libretti Books Music scores Programmes Song sheets | Subjects: | Music; Music-halls; Musical theater; Musicals; Operas; Operetta Music; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; 21st century; printed music; manuscript | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Broad Street, Oxford,,
OX1 3BG | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Periodicals Libretti Books Music scores Programmes Song sheets | Go to resource |
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