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Full-Text Music Databases

  • Ardal Powell's 18th-century Flute Database, contains listings for about 1,700 instruments, with details of attribution, maker's mark, materials, keys, and reports in the literature.
  • Aria Database, a searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type; including word-by-word translations into English, libretti, and MIDI files for many of the arias. The Database includes the complete set of operatic arias of Verdi and Puccini, as well as many others. Here you will find more than 1,275 arias, 380 English translations, and 220 midi files. Page maintained by Robert Glaubitz.
  • Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, a publication of the National Library of Canada that aims to describe Canada's musical heritage and culture: the historic and current manifestations of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well as Canadian music's educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects.
  • GramoFile on the Web contains more than 23,000 Gramophone Magazine classical music reviews from March 1983 onwards. The database is updated monthly and is two months in arrears of the published magazine.
  • Lied and Song Texts Page, an extensive archive of more than 18,000 texts to lieder and other art songs in Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish. Page maintained by Emily Ezust.
  • MuseData (at Stanford University's Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities) is a collection of full-text databases of music for several composers, including J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Corelli, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Telemann, and Vivaldi. It is intended that these databases be used for music printing, music analysis, and production of electronic sound files. Here you will also find CCARH's Classical Themefinder.
  • National Pipe Organ Register (University of Cambridge) provides locations, builders, dates and technical information for many/most of Britain's historic pipe organs.
  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians, a phonetic system devised by E. Douglas Brown of the staff of WOI Radio at Iowa State University. The dictionary, with more than 27,000 entries, is available in the Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) and in WordPerfect.
  • saggi musicali italiani (SMI) is a database of texts on Italian music theory and aesthetics. Following the model of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML), the SMI's goal is to make all these texts available in electronic form, allowing them to be downloaded, browsed, and searched. As of now, the SMI includes only selected sources, but it will eventually comprise all printed materials from the Renaissance to the present.
  • Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (TME), an evolving database designed to extend the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML). The database will eventually comprise all relevant manuscript and printed materials from the Middle Ages to the 17th century.
  • Theory of the Middle Ages (THEMA) database comprises hypertext transcriptions of 18 manuscript copies of 14 Latin theoretical treatises related to musica mensurabilis of the thirteenth century.
  • Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an evolving database that will eventually contain the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
  • Thesaurus Precum Latinarum is a collection of Latin prayers and hymns with English translations and commentaries by Michael Martin.

Online Music Resources