Music Research Databases

1. 18th-century Flute Database (listings for about 1700 instruments, with details of attribution, maker's mark, materials, keys, and reports in the literature)
2. A Cappella Album Database (information about a cappella recordings) ?
3. All-Music Guide (index to recordings, reviews, artists bio's, articles on musical genres, glossary of musical terms)
4. American Music Resource -- information about all styles of music indigenous to the Western Hemisphere
5. Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
6. Aria Database / Robert Glaubitz (translations, aria texts, and collection of MIDI files)
7. Bach Digital
8. Beethoven Bibliography Database at San Jose State University
   • Beethoven Bibliography Database -- Telnet site (login as "lib", select "D")
9. The Big Bands Database
10. Biography.com (includes data from the Cambridge Encyclopedia Database and The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography)
11. 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)
12. CAIRSS for Music (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System) -- Telnet site / Institute for Music Research
    "a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Citations have been taken from 1,354 different journal titles; 18 of which are primary journals, meaning that every article ever to appear is included."
13. 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)
14. CANTUS (Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the Divine Office)
15. Ingenta (Index to articles/article delivery system)
16. CDDB (Largest Database of Audio CD -- Title, Track and Song Information)
17. Chronology of Modern Music, Art and World Events
18. Composer Timeline / Tim Cordell
19. Czech comtemporary music database
20. Dictionary of American Hymnology / Oberlin College Library and the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada
21. Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) (aims to digitize and enhance images of fragmentary British manuscripts of medieval polyphonic music)
22. Directory of Music User Guides for Libraries / Compiled by the Bibliographic Instruction Subcommittee Music Library Association
23. Dissertations in Music Theory from MTO / Society for Music Theory (Abstracts)
24. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (DDM-Online)
25. Encarta Encyclopedia
26. Encyclopedia of Traditional Celtic Music
27. Essentials of Music / W.W. Norton and Sony Classical (Eras, Composers, Glossary)
28. Folk Music: An Index to Recorded Resources / by Jane Keefer
29. Gaylord Music Library -- Necrology (death dates of recently deceased composers)
30. Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
31. H-Mus Txt (devoted to encouraging discourse and sharing information among scholars and professionals active in genre exploring the relationships between music and text)
32. Index to Theses of Great Britain and Ireland (site registration necessary)
33. Institute for Music Research University of Texas, San Antonio
34. Instrument Encyclopedia -- Music Heritage Network / developed by CHICO - Cultural Heritage Information and Community Outreach project
35. Journal of New Music Research: Electronic Appendix (contains sound examples that have been mentioned in articles of the Journal of New Music Research)
36. Kirk Collection: Dance Band Index from Indiana State University (a collection of 1,532 dance orchestra arrangements dating from 1900-1955)
37. Klaus-Kuhnke-Archive of Popular Music (Bremen, Germany)
38. 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)
39. Lexicon musicum Latinum -- Dictionary of Medieval Latin Musical Terminology to the End of the 15th Century
40. MLA Notes Obituary Index
41. Medieval Music Database / La Trobe University ("The Scribe Database is a systematic collection of scores, colour images, texts and bibliographic information of 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 colour facsimile of an original manuscript")
42. Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae: Inventory of Microfilms and Photographs / University of Copenhagen, Institute for Greek and Latin
43. MTInfobase of Musicals from Music Theatre International
44. Music Education Resource Base : including the Canadian Music Index -- (MERB/CMI) "a bibliographic database of more than 28,000 resources in music and music education from 31 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are fully indexed by title, author, and subject"
    • Title list
45. Music Education Search System / Edward P. Asmus
    Includes indexes to 13 music education journals, the Poland Cady Abstracts, & the Boletin de investigacion educativo musical
46. Music, Mind, Machine Project -- part of the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (project about computational modeling of music cognition with an emphasis on the temporal aspects of music perception and music performance such as rhythm timing and tempo) (Publications Index)
47. Musica: the International Database of Choral Repertoire / International Federation for Choral Music
48. MuSICA -- the Music and Science Information Computer Archive (Scientific research (references & abstracts) on music as related to behavior, the brain and allied fields)
49. MusicLink: UTK Song Index (provides access to about 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
50. Obituary Page - Musicians, Composers, Music Industry, and more
51. Operabase (information on opera performances, opera houses, opera timelines)
52. Operas and Composers: A Pronunciation Guide ?
53. Opera Terms: A Pronunciation Guide ?
54. The Parlor Songs Collection - The amazing collection of popular and classical sheet music from the 1800's to the 1940's and beyond (includes midi files)
55. Performance Practice Encyclopedia -- an online publication and represents a continuation of the print journal Performance Practice Review, 1988-1997 ?
56. recordmaster.com - International Music Discographies
57. Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census (RELICS) / University of Michigan (database of information about worship books printed before 1601)
58. RIdIM-UK (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale)
59. RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
60. RIPM (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale/Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals)
61. RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (International Inventory of Musical Sources)
62. RoJaRo (A key to articles, discographies, live-/record-reviews in the music press worldwide from January 1992 to date, now incorporating record label info.)
63. saggi musicali italiani: A Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics / Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature Indiana University
64. Selected Bibliography related to Orchestra Practice (17th to 19th centuries) / compiled by Thomas Drescher
65. SHARC Timbre Database / Gregory J. Sandell (a resource devoted to the study of what determines the timbre, or characteristic signature of musical instruments) ?
66. Texas Music Bibliography / Texas Music Office -- Office of the Governor
67. 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)
68. Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (TMI) Utrecht University
69. Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) Indiana University
70. UMI / Dissertation Express
71. WAIS databases in Music (no longer updated)
72. Wighton Database - (Database of one of the world's finest collections of early Scottish music. Contains many rare/unique/RISM works, and many English, Irish and Welsh items)
73. Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930

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