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CONCENTORES SOCIETY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/055

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CONCENTORES SOCIETY

Date(s): 1798-1805

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Concentores Society | glee club

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Concentores Society was also known as Sodales Concentores, a glee club, which met at the Buffalo Tavern, Bloomsbury. A glee club met to practice and perform glees and other songs. Glees are a form of English song, for three or more voices, which were usually unaccompanied.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute book of the Concentores Society, glee club.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item catalogued as CLC/055/MS08593C.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This volume was deposited in Guildhall Library in 1929 (part of Gresham Music Library). It was catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1964. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concert bands | Bands | Musical performers | Performers | Artists
Concert performances | Musical performances | Music | Performing arts
Musical appreciation | Musicology | Music | Performing arts
Social clubs | Clubs | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Vocal music | Music | Performing arts

Personal names

Corporate names
Concentores Society | glee club

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe