rvation, and communication of archives selected for
permanent preservation. [Archives] 
n., [place] Rooms or sets of rooms for the systematic maintenance and storage of records and documents. [Arts] 
n., Archival documents contain accurate and detailed information relevant to many aspects of musical scholarship: to biography,
chronology, history of institutions and societies, the place and function of musicians in society, performing practice (in the fullest
sense of that phrase) and many others. They yield