Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
Established	1968
Location	St. Aldate's, Oxford, England
Coordinates	51°44′56″N 1°15′22″W / 51.7488°N 1.2562°W / 51.7488; -1.2562
Type	University museum of musical instruments
Website	www.bate.ox.ac.uk

Two clarinettes d'amour in the Bate Collection.

The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the medieval period onwards. It is housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St. Aldate's.

The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment. There are frequent gallery events and special exhibitions. More than a thousand instruments by important English, French and German makers, are on display, showing the musical and mechanical development of wind and percussion instruments from the Renaissance to the current day.^[1]

The collection is named after Philip Bate^[2] who gave his collection of musical instruments to the University of Oxford in 1968, on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it.^[3] The collection also houses an archive of his papers.

The Bate Collection is additionally the home of the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns and other Brass and Woodwind Instruments; the Anthony Baines Collection; the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders and other instruments; the Jean Henry Collection, the Taphouse Keyboard Loans; the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection; the Michael Thomas Keyboard Collection; a number of instruments from the Jeremy Montagu Collection; a complete workshop of the English bow-maker William C Retford, as well as a small collection of Bows formed in his memory, the Wally Horwood Collection of books and recordings, and other instruments acquired by purchase and gift.^[1]

An album, 'Voices From The Past, Vol. 2: Instruments of The Bate Collection' was released in 2015.^[4]

References

1 2 "A short history". The Bate Collection. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2007-03-25.
↑ "Places feature — The Bate Collection]". BBC Oxford. UK: BBC. 19 December 2006. (Dr Hélène La Rue tells how the collection's founder, Philip Bate, became involved in music.)
↑ La Rue, Hélène (2004). "Bate, Philip Argall Turner (1909–1999)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press).
↑ Desbruslais, Simon. "Voices from the Past, Vol.2: Instruments of the Bate Collection, Oxford". ClassicalArchives.com. Retrieved 29 December 2015.

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Historically informed performance

Early music festivals	Boston Early Music Festival Festival Oude Muziek Flanders Festival Regensburg Tage Alter Musik

Instrument builders	Arnold Dolmetsch William Dowd Frank Hubbard Martin Skowroneck

Instrument collections	Bate Collection Brussels Musical Instrument Museum Metropolitan Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Musikinstrumente Vienna National Music Museum Smithsonian Institution Yale University Paris Conservatoire

Instrument collectors	American Musical Instrument Society Galpin Society

Primary instruments	Harpsichord Recorder Viol

Instruction	Amherst Early Music Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

Societies	American Recorder Society Cambridge Society of Early Music Early Music America Lute Society Lute Society of America National Early Music Association Society of Recorder Players Viola da Gamba Society Viola da Gamba Society of America

Labels	Archiv Produktion Das Alte Werk Dorian Recordings EMI-Reflexe Harmonia Mundi L'Oiseau-Lyre Titanic Records

Shows	Harmonia Micrologus Millennium of Music Pied Piper

Other	Early music revival List of early music ensembles

Museums and galleries in Oxfordshire

City of Oxford	Ashmolean Museum Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Christ Church Picture Gallery Modern Art Oxford Museum of the History of Science Museum of Oxford Oxford University Press Museum University of Oxford Botanic Garden Oxford Castle Oxford University Museum of Natural History Pitt Rivers Museum Science Oxford The Story Museum

Region	Abingdon County Hall Museum Ashdown House Banbury Museum Benson Veteran Cycle Museum Blenheim Palace Bloxham Village Museum Broughton Castle Buscot Park Bygones Museum Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred Charlbury Museum Chastleton House Chipping Norton Museum Churchill and Sarsden Heritage Centre Cogges Manor Farm Combe Mill Didcot Railway Centre Dorchester Abbey Museum Greys Court Hook Norton Brewery Museum Hook Norton Village Museum Kelmscott Manor Mapledurham House Mapledurham Watermill Oxford Bus Museum Oxfordshire Museums Resource Centre The Oxfordshire Museum Pendon Museum Project Timescape River and Rowing Museum Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum Stonor Park Swalcliffe Barn Swinford Museum Thame Museum Tolsey Museum Tom Brown's School Museum Vale and Downland Museum Wallingford Museum Waterperry Museum of Rural Life Witney and District Museum

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