Archives of the SASA Institute of Musicology: Collection of documents, autographs, copies, old editions of music printing and photographs

Arhiv Muzikološkog instituta SANU - kolekcija dokumenata, autografa, prepisa, starih notnih izdanja i fotografija

Abstract

Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade possesses a comprehensive collection of manuscripts, copies and rare editions of Serbian music. The collection also contains textual documents, photographs and objects important for the national musical history. This study presents a history, review of the content and structure of the Institute's Archive. Attention is focused on the most important documents in the Collection, also on the structure of users. Finally, author speaks about the actual problems in the Institute's Archive.