Music
Research Databases
18th-century
Flute Database(listings
for about 1700 instruments, with details of
attribution, maker's mark, materials, keys, and
reports in the literature)
All-Music
Guide (index to
recordings, reviews, artists bio's, articles on
musical genres, glossary of musical terms)
American
Music Resource
-- information about all styles of music
indigenous to the Western Hemisphere
Aria
Database /
Robert Glaubitz (translations, aria texts, and
collection of MIDI files)
The Big Bands Database
British
Song Fa La La
(database of British songs representing a body of
song literature from the end of the 16th century
to the present)
Canadian
Music Periodical Index -- Periodical
Title List(focuses
on articles and news items covering all aspects
of musical activity in Canada from the late
nineteenth century to the present day, updated
monthly)
CANTUS
(Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and
early printed sources of the Divine Office)
CARL
System Database Gateway--Telnet
site (There are a number of library catalogs and
free databases available but other databases
included require a password)
Classical
Music Events Calendar
Composer
Timeline
Computer
Music Research Institutions
Dictionary
of American Hymnology
/ Oberlin College Library and the Hymn Society in
the U.S. and Canada
Digital Image
Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) (aims
to digitize and enhance images of fragmentary
British manuscripts of medieval polyphonic music)
Directory
of Music User Guides for Libraries
/ Compiled by the Bibliographic Instruction
Subcommittee Music Library Association
Dissertations
in
Music Theory from MTO
/ Society for Music Theory (Abstracts)
Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology-Online
(DDM-Online)
Folk
Music: An Index to Recorded Resources
/ by Jane Keefer (Johns Hopkins University)
Index to Theses of
Great Britain and Ireland (site
registration necessary)
International
Music Organizations Database
/ The College Music Society
Journal
of New Music Research:
Electronic Appendix (contains sound examples that
have been mentioned in articles of the Journal of
New Music Research)
Kirk
Collection:
Dance Band Index
from Indiana State University (a collection of
1,532 dance orchestra arrangements dating from
1900-1955)
The
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection --
Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins
University (focuses on popular American music
spanning the period 1780 to 1960)
MLA
Notes Obituary Index
Medieval
Music Database
Monumenta
Musicae Byzantinae: Inventory
of Microfilms and Photographs / University of
Copenhagen, Institute for Greek and Latin
MTInfobase
of Musicalsfrom
Music Theatre International
Music
Bibliography
: from California State University
Musica: the
International Database of Choral Repertoire /
International Federation for Choral Music
MuSICA -- the
Music and Science Information Computer Archive
(Scientific research (references & abstracts)
on music as related to behavior, the brain and
allied fields)
Operabase
(information on opera performances, opera houses,
opera timelines)
The Parlor Songs
Collection - Collection
of popular and classical sheet music from the
1800's to the 1940's and beyond (includes midi
files)
Renaissance
Liturgical Imprints: A Census
(RELICS) / University of Michigan (database of
information about worship books printed before
1601)
RILM (Répertoire
International de Littérature Musicale)
RIPM
(Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale)
saggi
musicali italiani: A
Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics
/ Center for the History of Music Theory and
Literature Indiana University
SHARC
Timbre Database /
Gregory J. Sandell (a resource devoted to the
study of what determines the timbre, or
characteristic signature of musical instruments)
Texas
Music Bibliography
/ Texas Music Office
THEMA music THEory of the
Middle Ages(this
database comprises hypertext transcriptions of 18
manuscript copies of 14 Latin theoretical
treatises related to musica mensurabilis of the
thirteenth century)
Thesaurus
Musicarum Italicarum (TMI) Utrecht
University
Thesaurus
Musicarum Latinarum (TML)
Indiana University
University of Texas,
San Antonio, Institute for Music Research
Wighton
Database
- (Fully searchable database of early
Scottish music.
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