- Altenberg
Trio Archive (ATA) represents the first stage of what eventually
should become a comprehensive online encyclopedia of the Piano Trio.
At the present time, this site offers access to two databases: the ATA
Opus Database of works written for piano trio and the ATA
Ensemble Database which lists performing piano trios past and
present. Here you will also find (in German) Altenberg
Trio Program Notes to more than hundred works from the group's repertoire.
Page by Peter Andritsch.
- Archive
of Dissertation Abstracts in Music, maintained by Geoffrey Chew
(Royal Holloway, University of London).
- Australian
Music Centre Library, the most comprehensive collection of Australian
contemporary compositions in the world. Includes works by more than
300 Australian composers (scores, sets of performance parts, sound recordings,
videos, books, etc.).
- Bach Bibliography:
Research Publication on the Internet, a database of more than 17,000
books, articles, facsimiles, dissertations, and papers read at recognized
conferences and meetings. Site maintained by Yo Tomita.
- Beethoven
Bibliography Database at San Jose State University.
- Beethoven Bibliography
Database via telnet.
- Bibliography
of Swedish Music Literature, a database of the Documentation Centre
at the Music Library of Sweden. It covers books, articles in all Swedish
music periodicals (except fanzines), articles on music in other periodicals,
contributions to collective volumes, record liner notes (when substantial),
selected documents on the Internet, reviews, etc.
- Boethius
Server, includes the Society for Music Theory online bibliographic
database and Electronic Discussion Forum archives (full text).
- British
Song Database, a cornucopia of information on over 6,000 song cycles,
sets, albums, collections and individual songs, representing a body
of song literature from the end of the 16th century to the present.
In addition to English songs, there are Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Canadian,
Australian, and South African songs.
- CAIRSS for
Music, a bibliographic database of psychomusicological and biomedical
research literature relating to music and musicians (including Mozart,
Beethoven, Schumann and Wagner).
- Canadian
Music Periodical Index is an index to Canadian music periodical
literature which provides bibliographic sources for information on all
aspects of musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly, the database
currently includes more than 25,000 entries indexed from 475 Canadian
music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century
to the present day.
- CANTUS,
a database for Gregorian chant made up of indices of chants in selected
manuscripts and early printed sources of the Divine Office. Originally
developed at the Catholic University of America, this database is now
housed and maintained at the Faculty of Music of the University of Western
Ontario. Site maintained by Debra Lacoste.
- Catalogue
of Printed and Manuscript Music for the Swedish Lute by Kenneth
Sparr.
- Composers'
Catalogues of Works, biographical information (in French) and the
complete catalog of works for J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Buxtehude,
Chopin, Debussy, César Franck, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Ravel
, Schumann, Telemann and Vivaldi. Pages created and maintained by Robert
Poliquin.
- Concert
Life in Nineteenth-Century London Database, an inter-university
research project of Oxford Brookes University, University of Huddersfield,
and University of London Goldsmiths College. Page maintained by Paul
Dibley.
- Database
of Mozart Sources, an index of all works already published in, or
yet to be edited for, the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.
- Dissertations
in Music Theory, an index and abstracts of recently completed doctoral
dissertations in music theory. Edited by Eric J. Isaacson.
- Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology - Online presents all records of dissertations-in-progress
and completed dissertations reported since mid-1995. As previously published
records are converted from the original printed editions, they will
be added to the database.
- Early Music
Database, an exhaustive discography of early music recordings compiled
by the good folks at osuna.com. Organized by instrument, composer, and record label
(et cetera).
- European
Organ Index, a tool with which you can search various European organ
databases at the same time. Project sponsored by the European Union
under the Raphael Programme.
- Handwritten Sources
of the Theory of Music in the Middle Ages, a general list of more
than 1200 known manuscripts. This database provides information concerning
the date, origin, source, and RISM reference of each entry. In time,
this database will constitute an electronic version of the series B
III of the International Repertory of the Musical Sources (RISM).
- International Inventory of Villancico Texts (IIVT) currently includes
information on about 22,000 villancicos from the collection of imprints
at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid and manuscripts in a number of
Iberian archives. Compiled by Dr. Paul Laird, University of Kansas.
- Íslenskur Músík
Arfur, a database of Icelandic music manuscripts in the National
and University Library of Iceland. Composed between 1100-1800, the music
is mainly in two categories: Catholic church music (antiphons and Gregorian
chants) composed prior to the reformation in Iceland (1550) and pre-nineteenth
century, monophonic Lutheran hymns. Database maintained by Bjarki Sveinbjornsson.
Icelandic.
- Mario
Biondi's Dictionary of Recorded Opera, a searchable database containing
works by more than 500 composers (1,441 opera titles, 3,666 performances,
500 conductors, and more than 5,000 singers). Here you will also
find Mario Biondi's Database
of Arias, a discography of more than 1200 arias from 308 operas.
- Monumenta Musicae
Byzantinae, a large collection of Byzantine chant-related microfilms
and photographs housed at the University of Copenhagen. This online
inventory is primarily intended as a tool for identification of
sources containing specific repertoires of Byzantine Chant.
- Music and Science
Information Computer Archive (MuSICA), a database of scientific
research (references & abstracts) on music as related to behavior,
the brain and allied fields.
- Music Libraries
Online, a union catalogue for music materials in British libraries.
- Musica International
Database of Choral Music, contains bibliographic references to more
than 80,000 (October 2001) choral music scores from around the world.
- Musical
Borrowing, an annotated bibliography of writings on the use of borrowed
material in musical composition, including: transcription, variations,
quotation, cantus firmus technique, paraphrase, imitation/parody, modeling,
allusion, and other ways to rework existing music, from troping and
organum to collage and electronic manipulation. Edited by J. Peter
Burkholder, Andreas Giger, and David C. Birchler.
- National Library
Service of Italy Data Bank (SBN) includes the music database containing
over 300,000 records for printed and handwritten musical documents from
the 16th century onwards kept in over 500 public and private collections.
It can be considered the main source of information for the national
retrospective bibliography of printed music. From this page you can
also access the database of Italy's national sound archive.
- Organ
Database Berlin, contains data on more than 74,000 organs, 53,000
of which are in Germany. German / English.
- Renaissance
Liturgical Imprints: A Census (RELICS) is a database of information
about worship books printed before 1601. Based upon personal inspections
of books in most of the major research libraries of the United States
and also libraries in a few selected European cities, it includes information
on over 9,700 titles. Project directed by Dr. David Crawford, University
of Michigan.
- La
Scala Archive Database currently contains information on approximately
9,800 singers, conductors and musicians who performed at La Scala between
1953 and 1996, as well as information on the composers, librettists,
choreographers and their works. Access to this database is free, but
users must first register. Italian w/ English table of contents.
- The "Scribe" Medieval Music Database at La Trobe University is a
systematic collection of scores, color images, texts, and bibliographic
information on medieval music which can be searched by text or melody
and which will return musical information in the form of a modern score,
text data and, where available, a color facsimile of an original manuscript.
In contains a complete annual cycle of liturgical chant taken from original
medieval sources and complete works of selected composers from the twelfth
to the fifteenth centuries. Project directed by John Stinson.
- Sixteenth-Century
Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela, a database
of information about printed tablatures for plucked-string instruments
from 1500-1599. It is primarily concerned with bibliographical
information relating to lute, vihuela, and guitar tablatures; it also
contains information on four lesser-known instruments: the cittern,
the bandora, the mandora, and the orpharion. Page by Gary R. Boye.
- TheseNet: Catalogue Web des Thèses Soutenues en France provides
indexing and abstracts of doctoral dissertations granted in France since
1972 for most subjects. Some abstracts are in English and French.
- TIME (Technology
in Music Education), information on music instructional software
including publisher's descriptions, independent reviews, and availability
information. Page by Kimberly C. Walls.
- Wighton
Database, an online catalog to one of the world's finest collections
of early Scottish music. Includes a large selection of rare English,
Irish and Welsh volumes, with RISM entries in abundance, and many unique
items.
- Women
Composers Collection - University of Michigan Music Library, a special
collection of scores by women composers of the art music tradition from
the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. To access
the catalog select MIRLYN Catalogs
+ Indexes, then via the Web, Guest Signon and UM
Library Catalog. The keyword searches "women composers collection"
and "music by women composers" will each yield 1,000 bibliographic records.
- Zam'ru: The Jewish
Choral Music Database lists choral works by Bernstein, Bloch, Mihaud,
Mussorgsky, Schoenberg and dozens of other musicians who composed works
based on Jewish themes. Page maintained by Andrew Greene.
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