Welcome to The Listening Experience Database

This is an open and freely searchable database that brings together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, in any historical period and any culture.

There are currently 10735 listening experiences in the database, with 283 more experiences awaiting approval.

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3rd Baron Lyttelton and 3rd Baron Westcote in Bowood House, Wiltshire - 16 November, 1824

"We are going on here very pleasantly. Came yesterday Tommy Moore, who is as unaffected and as agreeable a little man as ever I met with, and whatever may be thought of “‘Lalla Rookh’ as a naughty book,” there is no naughtiness at all in his [...]"
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George Forster in Polynesia - the 1770's

"We were no sooner seated in the house, surrounded by a considerable number of natives, not less than a hundred, than two or three of the women welcomed us with a song, which, though exceedingly simple, has a very pleasing effect, and was highly musical when compared to [...]"
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