Type_Specification

Affordance_Is_playable

Interface_Human_consumption

Interface_SPARQL_endpoint

Feature_Timbre

Feature_Contour/Shape

Feature_Structure

Feature_Descriptive_Metadata

The MuSO (Music Scholarship Online) project considered the descriptive metadata needed for digital projects in music to become interoperable with these existing resources and proposed a peer reviewing mechanism that would provide quality control for the projects that would be aggregated by the MuSO VRE

1. To whom is this content interesting? 2. How does the project make its materials manifest, exposed, and documented? 3. What is the sustainability plan for the project? 4. Does the project achieve its own goals?

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University project

http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/biblio/onmusic/hclweb/view/full/page/6?bib_search%5B%5D%5Bfind_form_field%5D=&bib_search%5B%5D%5Bobject%5D=&bib_search%5B%5D%5Btag%5D=resource_type&bib_search%5B%5D%5Bvalue%5D=digital+score

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University project

Catalogue/Aggregator of digital librettos and score of ballet and opera, provided by external projects

https://atom.lib.byu.edu/obps/15061/

to enable other scholars, students, and the public to learn more about Carreño's career, as well as use these primary sources to ask questions and explore new aspects about her career as a pianist and composer.

https://documentingcarreno.org/items/show/320

A list of websites about early music, with a focus on instrumental music; features transcriptions of lute and theorbo pieces.

Online Resources for Music Scholars

A collection of records about over 1000 pieces of sheet music from or about Washington State and the Pacific Northwest. For some of them images are provided

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://db.lib.washington.edu/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.lib.washington.edu%2Fsheetmusic%2F&TN=sheetmusic&SN=AUTO30444&SE=632&RN=11&MR=0&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=0&XP=&RF=BriefDisplay&EF=&DF=&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=1&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=856&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=000000&QS=default&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1

Boston University's Center for Beethoven Research "promotes scholarship in a wide spectrum of Beethoven studies, with a focus on analysis and criticism, sketch and autograph studies, biography, and historical and cultural contexts." Its website includes a list of autograph manuscripts and links to online facsimiles, information about Beethoven sketch studies, and announcements of lectures, events, and symposia held by the Center.  

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://www.bu.edu/beethovencenter/beethoven-autographs-online/

CCARH is a research facility which constructs databases and creates programs to allow researchers to access, analyze, print, and electronically perform music. The site includes documentation and tutorials on music notation, score production, and computer-assisted analysis using MuseData, SCORE, Humdrum, and other tools. See the CCARHWiki for links to some printable scores and parts.    

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH)

Online Resources for Music Scholars

development of large databases of musical and textual materials for applications in research, teaching, and performance

MuseData; DMuse; ThemeFinder; CCARH Humdrum Portal

researchers; scholars; performers

Rare or unique scores and libretti from the collections of the Loeb Music Library, including first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Highlights of the collection include: scores by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and others; multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores; seminal works of musical modernism; and music of the Second Viennese School. Contains 689 items (as of 6/2013).    

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/vcFullRecord?collection=scores&_collection=scores&inoId=69&numCount=38&dispQry=%20Annotated%20Works%20(in%20Category)%20%20and%20limit%20by%20MODS:location=MODS:url%20&searchHistoryNumber=5&recordNumber=1&method=view&searchtype=reissue

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=295934&p=1973066

The Hill Collection contains sheet music of nearly 135,000 tunes, dating back to the mid-1800’s. The Online index provides only titles of works that can be borrowed at the University library

Hill Collection of Popular Sheet Music - University of Arizona

http://www.library.arizona.edu/applications/hill/index.php?type=titles&letter=7&start=0&size=50

One of the world’s largest collections of guitar sheet music; the archive also collects periodicals, recordings, and other materials related to the guitar. Scores from the C. C. Easley Microfilm Collection are available online.    

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://findingaids.csun.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=13&q=GUITAR&rootcontentid=178#id178

Search the catalogs and digital collections of 70 libraries, museums, and archives throughout Italy. Find links to millions of digital files, ranging from medieval manuscripts held in Trent, Venice, Bologna, and Perugia to operatic works by Rossini, Verdi, Donizetti, and Puccini (and many things in between); search or browse by subject area.  

Internet Culturale: Cataloghi et collezioni digitali delle biblioteche italiane

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://www.internetculturale.it/opencms/opencms/it/viewItemMag.jsp?id=oai%3Awww.internetculturale.sbn.it%2FTeca%3A20%3ANT0000%3AIT%5C%5CICCU%5C%5CMUS%5C%5C0239543&mode=all&teca=MagTeca+-+ICCU

The library catalog of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig; in addition to materials in the library, it gathers digitized items from sources including the RISM A/II series, Early Music Online, the Music Treasures Consortium, IMSLP, and more.

Katalog der Hochschulbibliothek der HMT Leipzig

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://imslp.org/wiki/Impromptu,_Op.106_(Galeotti,_Cesare)

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library

The Moldenhauer Archives, distributed across ten repositories worldwide, include thousands of music manuscripts, letters, and other materials. Available online: samples of over 130 items from holdings at the Library of Congress, the full text of The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives, and a complete finding aid to the collections.  

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/molden.2894

Online Resources for Music Scholars

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.ABRAHAMA#idp87328208

Muziekschatten: Online Sheet Music Collection

https://www.muziekschatten.nl/compositie?uri=http://data.muziekschatten.nl/som/327402

https:/data.muziekschatten.nl/sparql

metadata aggregation, music history; musicology; performance

researchers, performers (amateurs/professionals)

A catalog for music and musicology, including links to databeses storing digitized scores, bibliographies, biographical information, and links to other projects.

ViFaMusik: Virtual Library of Musicology = Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Musikwissenschaft

Online Resources for Music Scholars

https://www.vifamusik.de/en/specialized-data-bases/online-data-bases/dbis/

The National Library of Russia has made available this carefully curated collection of music given to Romanov emperors by visitors from France, Italy, Germany, and elsewhere. Many holdings come from Russia, where Western European music was introduced early in the eighteenth century. Holdings come from the 18th–20th centuries. Some of the music was brought by foreign teachers (e.g., Vincenzo Manfredini) for the royal progeny. Many works were provided with dedications to the emperors. Czech and Austrian music flowed copiously into Moscow at the end of the eighteenth century. A "Festival Song" by Felix Mendelssohn has a particularly interesting history, which is related here. The digitized pieces are linked to a database containing information about the social context and pertinent musical detail. The list of manuscripts (using Cyrillic script) can be found here, while a search engine (Roman script) is here. Drop-down lists contain listing in both Cyrillic and Roman, as appropriate, while the popup keyboard facilitates Cyrillic input. Source descriptions are in Russian.

Music Gifts for the Russian Emperors

http://expositions.nlr.ru/MusicalManuscripts/_Project/page_Manuscripts.php?block=0878801C-EE16-4600-88D8-49F87A0502FD

Jennifer Thomas's guide to motets and Mass Propers in manuscript and printed sources from the period 1475-1600. 33,000 items, indexed section by section. Excludes Magnificats, Lamentations, canticles, and strophic hymns. Offers extensive scribal and source detail.

http://legacy.arts.ufl.edu/motet/results.asp?sort=country&page=501&qt=&scol=&s=true&mode=

The Calendrier électronique des spectacles sour l'ancien régime et sous la révolution, originally developed at Oxford Brookes University by Barry Russell (1943-2003) and in Toronto by David Trott (1940-2005) but expanded to include other collaborators after their deaths, offers a searchable database of personnel (broadly defined), titles, dates, venues, and pertinent treatises on the French theater of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among its most unusual holdings are its calendar of police reports from the revolutionary period. With over 400,000 items covering actors, playrights, venues, et al., CESAR covers the entire francophone world.

http://www.cesar.org.uk/cesar2/titles/titles.php?fct=edit&script_UOID=153978

CLORI, which hosts cantata texts, manuscript source citations, and images that show characteristics of handwriting, has a number of sponsors and collaborators including the Italian Musicological Society (SIdM in Italian), the University of Rome (Tor Vergata), the Italian Institute for Music History (IISM), and RISM. The project is headed by Teresa M. Gialdroni. Click the "ricerca" button to go to the search form.

http://cantataitaliana.it/query_bid.php?id=1

The VolksLiedWerke is assembled from collections originating in Austria's states. Searches by title, personal name, or corporate name are possible. Supported by the Austrian National Library (Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek) and other entities. Some regions have separate websites, such as this one for the Tyrol, where scores and recordings may also be found.

VolksLiedWerke (Austrian Folksong Database)

Records for c.40,000 settings of the Ordinary of the Mass from 1400 to the present day. In process of migration (March 2014).

http://www.mdb.uni-mainz.de/werkDetail.aspx?ID=1674

Under the Répertoire tab of the Académie de Chant grégorien, the website Gregorien.info contains thousands of chant texts, their sources, and translations. The site is linked to the Cantus Index Network, and is now owned and directed by Inga Behrendt. The history of the development of the website is here. Gregorien.info and its networked partners operate under the guidelines of the Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society, which include the free and open exchange of data in electronic form.

http://gregorien.info/chant/id/4236/9/en

Cantus Index; Antiphonale Synopticum

This database, hosted at the University of Michigan, contains entries on c. 14,000 sources of liturgical music printed through the year 1600. Started by David Crawford (1995) and continued by James Borders, the database contains entries from publications in France, Germany, and many other European countries. Coverage extends to multiple Roman Catholic rites and to Protestant and Jewish liturgies.

RELICS (Renaissance Liturgical Imprints)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple&c=relics&sid=5ab64c16d9b33cd12556745d9802cc9a&q1=LAUDE&rgn1=title&cc=relics&view=reslist&sort=Title&page=reslist&start=1&size=10&fmt=long

This database of concerts (from 1841) itemizes musical programs given at many venues in the city of Edinburgh under the auspices of the the Reid School of Music in the University of Edinburgh. By itmeizing the contents of many of all preserved concert programmes, it attempts to chart the development and evolution of the ‘Reid Concerts’. Users may investigate composer, medium, genre, venue, date, or even professor in charge to cull specific profiles. The data collection overall enables the study of changes of taste and pedagogy as well as the constellation of pieces that make up concert programs. Begun in 2013, 'Reid Concerts' is still under development. (The School of Music is now a department within Edinburgh College of Art.)

http://www.reidconcerts.music.ed.ac.uk/concert/annual-reid-concert-1841

Brescia was the first home of violin-making. So many of the early makers died in the plague of 1630-31 that Brescia was unable to regain its former glory. It exerted considerable influence on instrument-making in nearby Cremona, which flourished after 1650. Ugo Ravasio's website (Liuteria Bresciana), which covers the period from 1550 into until the eighteenth century, mainly emphasizes the pre-1630 period.

http://www.liuteriabresciana.it/ait031.htm?it=virgirolamo

music history; musicology; history of instruments

Music Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) is a multilingual, searchable site providing descriptions of individual musical instruments in curated collections worldwide. Its 55,000 items can be viewed by family or by location. Results can be filtered by date, place of production, and maker. Measurements and other details of each instrument are provided. Its iconographical value is very considerable. The spinet of 1610 by Vincenzo di Prato, pictured here, comes from Grassi collection in the museum of the University of Leipzig.

Music Instrument Museums Online (MIMO)

http://194.250.19.158/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_CIMU_ALOES_0161102

music history; musicology; history of instruments

The Museum of Folk Instruments in Szydłowiec, established in 1968, houses the largest collection of folk instruments in Poland and documents rich musical relationships with adjacent regions. Holdings date from the seventeenth century onward and currently number more than 2,000. The collection (which is housed in the Szydłowiecy-Radziwill Castle, is particularly rich in bowed instruments, cymbals, and bagpipes. Some links within the site provide sound files.

http://piano.instruments.edu.pl/en/pianos/show/piano/7

music history; musicology; history of instruments

More than 470 prints of Lassus's compositions up to 1687, but many titles known from the prints cannot today be verified against surviving manuscripts. This inventory of manuscripts follows on from Horst Leuchtmann and Bernhold Schmid's inventory of printed works (Kassel, 2001) and attempts to clarify the status of both surviving and lost titles. It supports single-parameter and Boolean (multiple-criteria) searches.

https://lasso-handschriften.badw.de/metaopac/start.do?View=lasso

https://lasso-handschriften.badw.de/metaopac/singleHit.do?methodToCall=showHit&curPos=10&identifier=354_SOLR_SERVER_2023787614

The most important composer in Bavaria in the first half of the sixteenth century, Ludwig Senfl (c. 1490-1543) spent almost all his life in the Munich court chapel, first as choirboy, then as musician and composer. Polyphonic incipits in mensural notation are among the items that can be retrieved by genre, voicing, and so forth. Cross-linked to DIAMM.

http://www.univie.ac.at/muwidb/senfl/editor/werk.php?action=preview&id_werk=35

The University of North Carolina offers top-down collections of selected repertories from Egyptian, Turkish, Iraqi, and classical Persian music. Each site varies from the others. Explanatory material concerning composers, instruments, styles, and cultural emphases are general to most. The Farabi site also discusses theoretical concepts in Persian classical music. The Turkish one contains many sound examples.

Although the search form shows only four fields, the name field (nome) will accept almost any proper noun (surname of composer, librettist, scenographer, city, theater, etc.). Most sources are digitized and downloadable. This collection holds 9,000 libretti (in Italian) from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Some were published and used outside Italy. Most texts were for operas, but oratorio, cantata, and serenata texts can also be found.

http://www.braidense.it/cataloghi/rd_query.php

This bibliographical database has the virtue of disclosing how many early recordings were made of the music of composers we consider to have been "rediscovered" in more recent times. It is also a worthy tool in showing changes of taste and of recording technology. Records have been culled from extensive research in record-company archives in the US and Europe, with particularly emphasis on 78 rpms not well documented elsewhere. Where company documentation is lacking, the compiler (Michael H. Gray) has consulted library catalogues and dealers' lists. Labels so far surveyed include Ariola-Eurodisc, Columbia (Europe and America), HMV (Europe and Japan), Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Philips, Telefunken/Teldec, Erato, Decca (USA and UK), Argo, Oiseau-Lyre, Vox, Westminster, Capitol, and many others. Links to Durbeck Archive (classical and choral music on LPs) and Francois Nouvion's Historical Tenors, and other parallel sites are provided.

http://classical-discography.org/search2.php

The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara contains several spokes. A "vernacular" collection of wax cylinders made outside the confines of commercial companies number 650 items. Not all are musical. Recording was a novelty at the turn of the twentieth century, and barnyard sounds took their place beside the spoken voice, fiddles tunes, and dialogue from minstrel shows. The holding collection contains well of 3,200 cylinders, some of which are available for adoption from time to time.

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr+1=1020&num=1&start=1&query=cylinder13229

This collection, administered by the US National Park Service (Thomas Edison's lab is classified as a national historic park), holds 11,000 cylinder recordings and 38,000 disc recordings from the years 1898-1929. Some recordings have been reissued on CDs. In general users may request the copying of one recording at the time. No online access is currently provided from this site, but some materials can be found at other sites. The Archive is rich in related holdings, including black-and-white photographs of early performers (c. 5,000) and correspondence. Three hundred forty-one silent films made by the Edison company between 1898 and 1912 can be found at the Library of Congress's Inventing Entertainment website.

http://www.nps.gov/edis/historyculture/requesting-an-audio-recording.htm

Stanford Music Library Digital Scores Collection

Linked open dataset about artists of Jazz music, linked to information from libraries, archives and photographs

Pratt Institute School of Library Information Science

To uncover meaningful connections between documents and data related to the personal and professional lives of jazz artists, and
To develop broadly applicable tools and methods for working with Linked Open Data.

http://linkedjazz.org/resource/Ella_Fitzgerald

The NEMA framework is a multinational, multidisciplinary cyber-infrastructure project for music information processing that builds upon and extends the music information retrieval research. The NEMA team aims to create an open and extensible web-service based resource framework that facilitates the integration of music data and analytic/evaluative tools which can be used by the global MIR and CM research and education communities on a basis independent of time or location

Centre for Digital Music Queen Mary University of London

http://isophonics.net/SingingVoiceDataset

Aggregator of Linked Open data from several datasets. Most of services are temporary unavailable

RDF Dataset of CC licensed music resources based in France. All services but the dump are down

music listening; data aggregation; LOD publication

music selling; data aggregation; LOD publication

RDF Dataset created during a hackaton including metadata released by BBC on performances, tracks and J. Peels' related artists

music history; data aggregation; LOD publication

RDF Dataset of playcounts of artists per episode and brands in their programmes catalogue.

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/transform.do?xml=http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/mods/americanu/oai_3Aauislandora.wrlc.org_3Aauislandora_33250.xml&xsl=http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/mods2rdf.xsl

The heart of this project is rooted in a lifetime of song research by Alan Lomax (1915-2002). Over his long life he recorded music and interviews with folk musicians throughout the Western Hemisphere. He spent the 1950s based in London, where he assembled a multi-volume collection of "folk and primitive" music for Columbia Records. (His relocation enabled Lomax to escape the brunt of McCarthyite discrimination against prominent figures from the music world–including Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. He was at various points under surveillance by Britain's MI5 and, in the US, by the CIA and the FBI. No charges were ever brought.) features and their incidence in a series of pieces representing Hunedoara culture,">Roumania in The Global Jukebox. In 2012 the Library of Congress agreed to make his 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, and 5,000 photographs available for The Global Jukebox. Lomax has devoted the last two decades of his life to this project. In its current state the website has significant debts to long-time associates including Lomax's daughter Anna Lomax Wood and a team of specialists who provided technical support. Using geospatial data The Global Jukebox will enable you to explore these recordings by place and by many other parameters. It is the first open-access evidence of this decades-long collection development. Under the auspices of the Association for Cultural Equity, which Lomaz founded, current researchers welcome contributions of metadata, especially song titles. An earlier collection of his work (1937) is housed at the University of Kentucky. It was Lomax's intention to implement his work in cantometrics (1959) and choreometrics in a computer system (initiated by the musicologist Victor Grauer). Considering that 37 criteria were used for the initial version of the system, the system was highly ambitious. The richness of the detail is captured in the image above, which displays metadata, content description, rate of occurrence, and musical texture in a series of Roumanian songs. Choreometrics was pursued in collaboration with Irmgard Bartenieff and Forrestine Paulay, who were also involved in the development of Laban Notation. The implementation of choreometrics at this website accommodates 119 variables.

XML monthly dumps of Discogs Release, Artist, Label, and Master Release data. The data is in XML format and formatted according to the API spec: http://www.discogs.com/developers/

The project's original data contribution will be archival, canonical linked data references, aka "minted" URIs, for music composers. These URIs will associate recognized reference data sources in Musicology, like COPAC, RISM, Grove, the British Library, etc., into standard representative pointers for composers.

this project proposes to produce a suite of resources and tools that will support effective linked data exploration with a focus in musicology.

http://musicnet.mspace.fm/person/367b107e07a7f9db8aed7c72d2ebeab2.html

MusicBrainz; Music Ontology

BBC Things provides a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and our audiences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/fe680ea4-b7a7-4f56-b0b8-586eeae2591b

Contains the the official song tag and song similarity dataset of the Million Song Dataset

Contains song-level genre annotations derived from the All Music Guide. To increase the accuracy and granularity of MSD genre annotations, and thus facilitate music genre recognition research, the tagtraum genre annotations are based on multiple source datasets and allow for ambiguity.

music information retrieval; genre recognition

http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org/documents/lessonbooks/OC-3-3_1917/r0003.html

Critical editions of 17th century Italian madrigals and arias, with introductions in Italian, German and English, and translations of the texts into English and German. As of May 2013, composers represented include Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Rovetta, and Giovanni Valentini.

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/music/research/ascima/index.aspx

Archive of Seventeenth-Century Italian Madrigals and Arias (ASCIMA)

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/1679/

The main archival repository of Schoenberg materials. The site includes digitized manuscripts, streaming audio, photographs, biographical information, and more. Search the Database of Works and Sources for links to digitized sketches and manuscripts.      

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://archive.schoenberg.at/compositions/werke_einzelansicht.php?werke_id=116&herkunft=allewerke

The website of the C.P.E. Bach Critical Edition, with complete contents of the edition, forms to request performance parts, digital facsimiles of some manuscripts and early editions, and related materials.  

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://cpebach.org/toc/toc-I-1.html

Digital versions of over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin from the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection.

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0chopin--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4---Document---0-1l--1-en-Zz-1---50-home---001-001-1-0utfZz-8-0&a=d&c=chopin&cl=CL2.1&d=CHOP328

A project (in progress) of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg and the Packard Humanities Institute, The Digital Mozart Edition includes both the music and critical commentary volumes of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, as well as critical editions of Mozart family letters, documents, and libretti.  

Digitale Mozart-Edition = Digital Mozart Edition

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME//nma/nmapub_srch.php?l=2

The Wiesbaden Codex (“Riesencodex“: "giant codex", or “chain codex”), is the most significant legacy of Hildegard of Bingen (1097/8-1179). It includes complete musical works (Symphonia, Ordo virtutum)

http://www.hs-rm.de/de/service/hochschul-und-landesbibliothek/suchen-finden/sondersammlungen/the-wiesbaden-giant-codex/

The Wiesbaden ("Giant") Codex of Hildegard of Bingen

http://dfg-viewer.de/show/?set[zoom]=min&set[mets]=http%3A%2F%2Fdokumentserver.hlb-wiesbaden.de%2FHS_2%2Fmets17.xml

Among other things, the Nazareth Project seeks to recover and register Ernesto Nazareth works and make them all available for download.

http://www.ernestonazareth.com.br/a_obra_de_ernesto_nazareth.php?area=1

Official Catalog of the Works of Ernesto Nazareth

http://www.ernestonazareth.com.br/pdfs/1922.pdf

This collection of over 200 early printed and manuscript scores represents the work of French composer and music publisher, Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831). It consists primarily of keyboard and chamber music, including arrangements of large orchestral works, published within the composer's lifetime.

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/pleyel/id/4331/rec/1

Peer-reviewed new editions, with commentary, of previously unpublished or commercially unavailable scores of seventeenth century compositions.

The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (WLSCM)

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://www.sscm-wlscm.org/main-catalogue/browse-by-composer/41-wlscm-no-9

This link takes you to the second of four lute books compiled by Mathew Holmes and preserved in the Cambridge University Library. Its companions are the Cosens Lute Book and a volume of fragments of Elizabethan music for lute. Holmes was a singer at Christ Church, Oxford, and at Westminster Abbey. Cosens was a nineteenth-century owner of this collection of sixteenth-century music.

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-00005-00078-00003/1

An abiding problem in chant research is the evaluation of rhythm and proportion. This website (in Italian) by Marco Gozzi explores interpretative methods for repertories that are viewable online in early prints and manuscripts. A search form facilitates the retrieval of examples by source location. Excellent leaf-by-leaf viewing tools are provided.

Cantus Fractus Database (Projetto Raphael)

http://www.cantusfractus.org/raph_1/edizioni/FSG_02.htm#nota_FSG02

The Staatsbibliothek in Berlin makes available close-up views of numerous details of the Beethoven's autograph for the Ninth Symphony. This view shows one of the best known passages of the work: Bars 921–922 of the Maestoso movement with the text "Tochter aus Elysium, Freude, schöner Götterfunken!" (Artaria 204(4), f. 124.) A general commentary on the nine symphonies can be found here.

http://beethoven.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/digitale-abbildungen/4-satz

http://beethoven.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/beethoven/de/sinfonien/9/4/1/17.html

http://www.europeanasounds.eu/sounds/music

Europeana Data Model (EDM)

Digital library/aggregator of heterogenous french sources, including digitizations of scores

http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/search/resource/?uri=ark:/12148/btv1b550082186

http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/sqe/

https://www.loc.gov/collections/music-treasures-consortium/about-this-collection

https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100010473/

Digital library of heterogeneous objects, including images of notated music, provided by external partners

https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?explore=true&fq=dc_type:image_score

EBBA, University of California, Santa Barbara

to launch new research and teaching on street literature, with a focus on broadside ballads

http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31227/image

New York Philharmonic Digital Archives

http://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/38e072a7-8fc9-4f9a-8eac-3957905c0002?search-type=singleFilter&search-text=MUSIC&search-dates-from=&search-dates-to=

3500 digitizations of songs and instrumental pieces published in the United States from the 1830s to 1900.

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sheetmusic/id/16293/rec/1

The Digital Archives of the Beethoven-Haus contain over 6000 online facsimiles of music manuscripts, sketches, first editions, letters, and photographs, accompanied by audio files, bibliographies, and historical background.

http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=startseite_digitales_archiv_en

Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Das Digitale Beethoven-Haus

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=15239&template=werkseite_digitales_archiv_en&_eid=1510&_ug=Piano%20and%20orchestra&_werkid=19&_mid=Works&suchparameter=&_seite=1

Selected sheet music from UCLA's 450,000 item Archive of Popular American Music (1790-present). As well as more general popular music, a particular strength of the collection is music composed for theatre, film, and television.  

Digital Archive of Popular American Music

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://digital.library.ucla.edu/apam/librarian?ITEMID=HMBYM&SIZE=Medium

Explorations of Bach's work through video, audio, and text, synchronized with facsimiles of manuscript or early edition scores. "Exploring JS Bach's B minor Mass" is accompanied by lectures and a master class taught by Helmuth Rilling; "Exploring JS Bach's Goldberg Variations" features performances on harpsichord (by Matthew Halls) and piano (by David Korevaar).

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://oregonbachfestival.com/assets/discovery/BWV_4.pdf

A digital archive drawn from the national libraries of Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, Panama, and Chile. As of December, 2012, the collection includes over 17,000 scores and 16,000 sound recordings featuring a wide variety of Latin American music genres.

Digital Library of Latin American Heritage = Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano (BDPI)

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://www.iberoamericadigital.net/BDPI/CompleteSearch.do?lengua=&field2Op=AND&text=&field1val=&numfields=3&field3Op=AND&completeText=off&languageView=en&field3=todos&field3val=&field2=todos&field1Op=AND&exact=on&advanced=true&doctype=M%C3%BAsica+impresa&doctype=M%C3%BAsica+manuscrita&field1=todos&field2val=&pageSize=1&pageNumber=1

The immense digital library of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; thousands of digitized scores, including the Chrysander edition of the Händel complete works, the Rietz edition of the Mendelssohn complete works, and hundreds of scores by Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, and others.    

http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=startseite&l=de

Digitale Bibliothek: Das Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00016760/images/index.html?fip=193.174.98.30&seite=21&pdfseitex=

More than 260,000 digitzed documents related to Greek music, including the digitized archives of the composers Mikis Theodorakis, Εmilios Riadis, George Poniridis, and Frank Choisy, the Nileas Kamarados Archive, and Greek songs.  

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://digma.mmb.org.gr/Item.aspx?kkt=TMUSIC000000001

An online exhibit of manuscripts, letters, portraits, and more, from the Harry Ransom Center and the Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. The collection include digitized sheet music of 76 setting of Poe's poetry.

The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/details.cfm?id=196#

Gaylord Special Collections, Music (Washington University Libraries)

http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/12394

The Fryderyk Chopin digital collection included in the National Library in Warsaw. The collection comprises various printed editions of Chopin’s pieces, books on the composer’s life and his work, including a study by Robert Schumann about Chopin and a publication of the great composer and pianist Franz Liszt, etc.

The Fryderyk Chopin digital collection - National Library of Poland

https://polona.pl/item/408304/2/

A reference library and archives for Irish traditional music and dance, including music from the island of Ireland, Irish settlements abroad, and non-Irish performers of Irish traditional music. The Digital Library includes sound recordings, images, and digitized books and scores from the library's collections; the Inishowen Song Project presents singers and songs from County Donegal.

Irish Traditional Music Archive / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann (ITMA)

Online Resources for Music Scholars

https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/300-national-melodies-of-the-british-isles.-vol.-3-100.-irish-airs

Over 29,000 pieces of music published from 1790-1980, with a special emphasis on 19th century music, music related to wars, and minstrel music.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:145.064

researchers; scholars; amateurs; performers;

Archives, sound recordings and musical scores: field recordings of Jewish liturgical music from pre-state Israel and Cochin, India; early 20th-century sheet music from Russia and Central Europe; Cantorial School theses.  

http://sylvester.jtsa.edu:8881/R/8XGJYQVIRR5SINJ1F9QSHU82SJRBI6R926RN3939IAJTD82CIS-03393?func=collections&collection_id=1190

The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary Digital Collections: Music Collections

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://garfield.jtsa.edu:1801/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=496620.xml&dvs=1498664840343~977&locale=en_US&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

Digitized materials (35.000 images) from the collections of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including correspondence, photographs, early release fliers, journals, sheet music, movie star ephemera, and Academy publications such as rule books, newletters, and annual reports.

Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://digitalcollections.oscars.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15759coll6/id/2673/rv/compoundobject/cpd/2676/rec/1

Digitized books, periodicals, and audio recordings related to theology and religion. Subcollections include the Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology, the Payne Theological Seminary and A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church Archive, and the T.F. Torrance Collection of Antiquarian Books (including materials related to the history of Christianity in Scotland).

Online Resources for Music Scholars

http://commons.ptsem.edu/id/50hymnstunesarra00eich

This UNESCO-sponsored listing of digitized sources includes a number of significant musical works in single-item digitizations. The first chorus of Euripedes' Orestes (408 BCE, from the Austrian National Library) represents the oldest contribution found here. Although the source is necessarily deteriorated, vocal and instrumental symbols are found within it.Other WDL holdings include numerous sacred vocal works from the Ars Nova and Renaissance, German operettas, and twentieth-century sheet music. Other highlights include more than 2,700 historical maps from all parts of the world, a handful of treatises on music and music theory (including later colored drawings of St. Jerome's "Instruments of Hieronymous" (before 420 CE) and a seventeenth-century manual on the Chinese zither (quin).

https://www.wdl.org/en/item/10599/#item_type=manuscript&additional_subjects=Music

IM AF integrates multiple audio tracks with appropriate additional information, enabling users to experience various preset mixes and to make their own mixes

Centre for Digital Music Queen Mary University of London

Live Music Archive Linked Data (LMA)

http://etree.linkedmusic.org/sparql

musicology; music information retrieval; music analysis