Collection Level Description: Musical Collections of Harry Ellis Wooldridge
Reference: MSS. Mus. b. 17, c. 63-5, d. 182-205, e. 26-31
Title: Musical Collections of Harry Ellis Wooldridge
Dates of Creation: 1870-[1906?]
Extent: 34 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English, Italian, and Latin
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.
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 Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was given to the Library in 1917.
Access Conditions
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/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
A full description is available in the Library.
Access Points
Music
Music, Italian
Wooldridge | Harry Ellis | 1845-1917 | Professor of Fine Art and Historian of Music
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09 June 2011