Musical Festivals Database

How much do nineteenth-century festivals show up in the biographies of composers written in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries? In the case of Henry Bishop, not much. Details can be found at the latest post, here: http://musicalfestivals.org/news/

News & Updates | Musical Festivals Database Apologies for the late post: last week was the first week of classes, and things have been a little busy! The next few weeks of posts will likely be somewhat shorter.

How stable was repertoire at festivals in the 1790s? The new post at http://musicalfestivals.org/ discusses some interesting programming choices at Liverpool and Manchester.

Musical Festivals Database | British Music Festival Repertoire 1695-1940 The Musical Festivals Database (MFD) is a fully-searchable index of programs, personnel, ensembles and venues of musical festivals held between 1695 and 1940. Musical festivals (sometimes called choral festivals) were one of the most important means of concert music production in Britain in the 18th...

One of the great things about the MFD has been working with a number of fantastic Oberlin College & Conservatory undergraduates and Duke University graduate students on the project. Tomorrow, Meredith Graham, a Ph.D. candidate in the Music Department at Duke University, finishes her work on the MFD. She has written a short response to working in the project, which you can read here: https://sites.duke.edu/digital/2017/05/25/learning-together-in-digital-humanities/.

Thanks, Meredith, for all of the work you have put in on the project over the years!

Learning Together in Digital Humanities – Duke Libraries + Digital Scholarship Research Assistant, I quickly found out that my role was a bit undefined. I remember sitting in my first meeting as I was learning about the project thinking, “what exactly should I be doing?” As a part of the

How many types of festival were there in Britain between 1695 and 1940? Find out in today's post at the MFD news site (http://musicalfestivals.org/news/).