CONCENTORES SOCIETY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/055
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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.