Dating and Identifying Old Sheet Music

Coincidentally, the wise birds at Cambridge University Music Library have put together a great posting about ways to date rare old sheet music, whilst Karen here has been discussing RISM numbers with friends at both RISM and Copac.  (RISM numbers are another excellent way of identifying early music - and the part of RISM dealing with early printed music is now freely available online. Meanwhile, Copac is the big national combined catalogue for UK university and national libraries.  Librarians call it a 'union catalogue'.)

Keep abreast of the latest thinking - why not take a look at these links?

• The Dating Game (MusiCB3 blog)
•  Copac and RISM - a natural friendship 

Dating Victorian Music by its Artwork

Our own Assistant Librarian Catherine Small won a IAML prize for her Masters dissertation on dating music - so she's a very useful person to consult!

Additionally, and complementing the wealth of knowledge that we can draw upon here in Glasgow, we now find this interesting blogpost from Cambridge, about the pictures appearing on the covers of Victorian music.

Cambridge University's MusiCB3 Blog today writes a fascinating post about the difficult task of dating undated Victorian music:-

It’s not just about the music : The warlike Victorian – heroes and heroines