MLT funded projects
Current projects
Film score collections in the UK and Ireland: Scoping study
Dr. Miguel Mera and Dr. Ben Winters were jointly awarded a grant of £1200 to carry out a scoping study investigating the extent and availability of film music collections held in the UK & Ireland. The project will continue into 2009 and will produce a final report and conference papers.Other potential projects
The MLT has compiled a list of potential new projects suitable for funding. The list is intended to guide potential applicants towards the areas in which the Trust might grant start-up funding, partnership funding and support in general. The list of potential projects can be viewed here.
Karla, Bridget, Monicah and Maureen at work in the Kampala Music School Library.
Previously funded projects
Working visit to Kampala Music School, Uganda
The sum of £150 was awarded to Bridget Palmer (Royal Academy of Music) to contribute towards her expenses incurred during voluntary work with Kampala Music School, Uganda, in August 2008. Bridget gave training to the school’s music library staff and assisted with re-organisation of their music library.
Simon Yiga, Director of Kampala Music School.
Research Project: Music in the Artaria Ledgers, 1784-1827
In 2007 the Trust made an award of £920 to Dr. Rupert Ridgewell to fund a research trip to Vienna culminating in the paper Music in the Artaria Ledgers 1784-1827 presented at the Music and the Book Trade Conference held at the Foundling Museum on 1st-2nd December and the subsequent publication of the Proceedings.Concert Programmes Scoping Study & Project
Concert programmes are a primary source of information for historical and musicological research, but it is difficult to find out what programmes exist, where they are held and what their contents are.In 2002 the Music Libraries Trust provided £1,500 to finance a scoping study for a database of concert programmes held in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland.
Building on the scoping study, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board Resource Enhancement Scheme has built a database of collection level descriptions which will be contributed to the national collections portal, Cornucopia.
The Concert Programmes Database is now available at www.concertprogrammes.org.uk where users can locate collections of programmes held by libraries, archives, museums, concerts societies and venues in one search.
The scoping study, published as, Concert Programmes in the UK and Ireland: A Preliminary Report, by Dr Rupert Ridgewell, is available from the IAML(UK &Irl) Publications Officer, Ann Keith, Christ's College, Cambridge CB2 3BU. Tel: +44 (0)1223 334905. E-mail, eak12@cam.ac.uk price £12 (£13 overseas). Cheques should be made payable to 'IAML(UK & Irl)'.
Music librarianship by distance learning
The MLT granted £1000 to Ian Ledsham for the revision of the University of Aberystwyth Open Learning Unit's music librarianship distance learning course. Ian Ledsham's The Comprehensive Guide to Music Librarianship, a distance-learning package, is an essential guide for reference or as a self-study training package for new music librarians.Research & Bibliography
In the MLT has also awarded:- £250 to Richard Turbet (University of Aberdeen) towards costs of revision of his William Byrd: A Guide to Research;
- £400 to Wyn Thomas (University of Bangor) towards the publication costs of his bilingual bibliography Traditional Music in Wales.