History of music
Abstract
This Researcher Format dataset consists of a collection of CSV (comma-separated value) files containing metadata relating to printed and manuscript sheet music from the British Library Catalogue. It was initially released as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded collaboration between Royal Holloway University of London and the British Library, entitled "A Big Data History of Music". It is updated annually. The original project data is available here: https://bl.iro.bl.uk/collections/aa6a8a00-7611-4fde-a5f3-84d540d01783
Fields of Study & Subjects
Musicology and Musical Analysis
Digital Humanities and Scholarship
Libraries
Manuscripts
and Books
Publication details
- Journal / source
- British Library Research Repository
- Publication date
- 11 August 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Dataset