A searchable index is available at the Music Preserved website. As a Music Preserved Listening Centre, the University of York offers secure access to these special collections for research, teaching and listening. Sound Archives of the Music Department, University of Yorkįounded in 1987, these collections of classical music preserve rare recordings of public performances and interviews, spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, made from broadcasts or recorded on-site.see also Music Preserved's 'Recording of the Month'.Music Preserved (including the Harewood Collection).The University of York Sound Archives comprises the following collections: The UYSA has received a number of grants and awards, including an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, enabling research into the audio archives of Music Preserved.

The UYSA is a joint initiative of the Music Department and the Borthwick Institute for Archives, which together host the collections in order to preserve recordings in increasingly obsolete and fragile media, to digitize them, and to deliver and disseminate them using means that retain fidelity to original audio environments. In particular, the UYSA specialises in non-commercial, off-air and unreleased recordings. The University of York Sound Archives (UYSA) consists of sound recording collections held at the University of York, available for teaching, research and listening.

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