Dataset

https://musicsubscribers.co.uk/

This is the very detailed and useful database compiled by Simon Fleming and Martin Perkins for their subscribers project. You can find out more about it on their extensive information pages. 

I had early access to the database for my chapter on subscriptions to Scottish fiddle books.  (Chapter 10: ‘Strathspeys, Reels, and Instrumental Airs: A National Product’, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. )

NB ‘The dataset is the intellectual copyright of Simon D. I. Fleming and Martin Perkins.’ 

Simon D. I. Fleming and Martin Perkins (eds.) Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676–1820. Oxford, Routledge, 2022. 

NB. There’s currently (26 November 2023) a Black Friday deal on the book!

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