Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

University museum of musical instruments in Oxford, England

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 Middle Ages 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][citation needed]

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]

This oil painting of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) is presently in the collection.

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

## History

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The collection is named after Philip Bate[3] who began giving his collection of musical instruments to the University of Oxford in 1963,[4] on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it.[5] The collection also houses an archive of his papers. Dr Emanuela Vai [1] leads on all conservation, research and curatorial aspects at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments.

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments (former and current Curators and Conservators)

Dr Philip Bate; Dr Horace Fitzpatrick; Dr Anthony Baines; Dr Jeremy Montagu; Dr Hélèn La Rue; Mr Andy Lamb; Dr Emanuela Vai

## See also

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* List of music museums
* Museum of Oxford

## References

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1. ^ a b "A short history". The Bate Collection. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-25.
2. ^ Desbruslais, Simon. "Voices from the Past, Vol.2: Instruments of the Bate Collection, Oxford". ClassicalArchives.com. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
3. ^ "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.)
4. ^ "Short History". The Bate Collection. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
5. ^ La Rue, Hélène (2004). "Bate, Philip Argall Turner (1909–1999)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

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Historically informed performance

Early music
festivals|

* Boston Early Music Festival
* Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht
* 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
* Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix
* 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
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* Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

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* American Recorder Society
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* Society of Recorder Players
* Viola da Gamba Society
* Viola da Gamba Society of America

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