Musical Collections of Harry Ellis Wooldridge

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  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Mus. b. 17, c. 63-5, d. 182-205, e. 26-31
  • Dates of Creation
      1870-[1906?]
  • Language of Material
      English, Italian, and Latin.
  • Physical Description
      34 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Wooldridge's musical collections, including:  

  • Transcripts mainly of 17th and 18th century Italian music, nearly all from sources in the British Museum
  • Materials collected for his edition of W. Chappell's Old English Popular Music (London : New York : Chappell ; Novello, Ewer, 1893), and the Oxford History of Music
  • Original compositions

Administrative / Biographical History

Harry Ellis Wooldridge (1845-1917) was a Professor of Fine Art and historian of music. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The collection was given to the Library in 1917.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A full description is available in the Library.