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Call for Contributions: RMA Research Student's Conference 2011
Call for Papers and Call for Works
13 Jan 11 - 15 Jan 11
Call for Papers: Music and Philosophy
1st Annual Conference of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group - Opera and Philosophy
1 Jul 11 - 2 Jul 11
University of London
Call for Papers: Music: Action Across Distance
Sound Thought 2011 - Deadline for proposals 22 Oct 2010
3 Feb 11 - 5 Feb 11
Opportunity: Ordinary Members of RMA Council
19 Jul 10 - 7 Sep 10
Wanted: Musicians' Letters
Music Libraries Trust Research Project
9 Jun 10
Musicians' letters are an invaluable source of information about all aspects of musical life, but have often been less well documented than other music research materials.
The Music Libraries Trust is funding a scoping study to identify and document collections of musicians' letters in the UK and Ireland. The one-year project focuses on performers' and composers' letters from 1900 to the present, but also hopes to identify earlier collections of importance. Letters may be held in institutional archives, libraries and museums, including broadcasting, publishing and funding institutions and societies, as well as music festivals, performance venues and individual private collections.
The project is interested in both public and privately held collections of letters, with the aim of outlining the size and range of materials extant, their condition and access arrangements to them. Data collected will be included in Cecilia (the online guide to music collections in libraries, archives and museums in the UK and Ireland) and the final report of the scoping study, to be published in 2011, will outline any further work which might be undertaken on this project.
If you have or know of private collection which would be relevant to the project, or would like further information, please contact the project management team at musiciansletters@googlemail.com.