Music Resources Guide
This guide aims to introduce you to resources available for musical research in historic houses. It is not comprehensive, but includes a few key sources in each area linked below. It is currently weighted toward British historic houses from the 17th-19th centuries, but includes information that can be useful for researching houses from other times and places.
Who this guide is for
- Curators, conservators and visitor experience staff in the heritage sector who wish to research or deploy music in their properties, but who may have a limited background in music studies
- Students in musicology or museum studies starting research on music in a heritage setting
These pages are available to download as a single .pdf file below.
If you have any suggestions to add to this guide, or discover any broken links, please let us know by email at soundh@soton.ac.uk.