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MUSIC
Online Reference - European Music - World Music - Online Texts - Library Holdings
Cecilia
An on-line guide to music collections and their catalogues in
archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland.
Grove Music Online
A single website incorporating The New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html?&authstatuscode=202
(University of London Research Library Services users)
www.grovemusic.com
(other users: subscription required)
British
Library
Music research resources guides.
RISM (Repertoire
International des Sources Musicales) UK and Ireland
Inventory of musical manuscripts (1600 to 1800) held in British and Irish
libraries.
(Subscription required to search other libraries.) Searchable by melody,
composer or title.
BBC Music
Performance and broadcast information and archives covering
many styles and periods of music.
EUROPEAN MUSIC - treatises, theory and terms
Thesaurus
Musicarum Latinarum
Database of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and
Renaissance.
Lexicon musicum Latinum
medii aevi
Dictionary of medieval Latin musical terminology to the end of
the 15th century.
Texts on Music
in English
Texts of major music treatises written in English.
Thesaurus
musicarum italicarum
Collection of music treatises published in Italy from the Renaissance through
to the eighteenth century.
Saggi musicali
italiani
Texts of major music treatises written in Italian.
Traités
français sur la musique
Texts of major music treatises written in French.
EUROPEAN MUSIC - digitised texts and images; facsimiles
Bodleian
Library Broadside Ballads
Digitised images from the Bodleian Library's holdings of
over 30,000 ballads. The original printed materials range from the 16th
to the 20th century.
Manuscripts
of the Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland
Digitised images of medieval music and other manuscripts held
in the abbey library.
FARNE (Folk Archive
Resource North East)
Music, texts, digitised images and recordings from North East England,
from late C17 to the present day.
King's Music
Suppliers of facsimiles of early music and treatises. (This is also the
website for Early Music Review.)
Commercial
list of publishers of music facsimiles
A useful list of other publishers of music facsimiles.
EUROPEAN MUSIC - performance
National Early Music
Association UK
Useful links to early music organisations, web-sites and performance
information in the UK and elsewhere.
BBC
Early Music Show
One-hour programmes on early music and its cultural context,
archived and accessible by computer.
Traditional
World Music
A page of links.
EAST-WEST
Flamenco.world.com
Gateway to online resources on Flamenco
Centro
Andaluz de Flamenco
Includes a database of historical
recordings
The Oud
Home Page and the Oud
Web
History, music and theory of the Arabic lute.
Indian Music
Art
India Net
Gateway to Indian classical music and performing arts. Broad section
of Gateway
Tabla.com
Gateway to resources on Indian percussion and rythm theory
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