Music research and M Guide - Resources and Review

Extensive list of links to journals of interest to musicians, music theorists and musicologists.
 
The Repertoire International des Sources Musicales represents a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times until 1825. It provides access to online databases of bibliographic records for manuscripts after 1600, libretti, libraries and citations.
 
A directory of online periodicals concerned with classical music.
 
Links to general musicology and music research resources covering introductory guides, literature, bibliography, discourse and contacts.
 
Article discussing the overhaul of the Scottish music curriculum during the 1980s. Covers problematic areas such as Inventing, an element of Standard Grade music, considering ways in which the skills of teachers and pupils can be improved.
 
An index to dissertations in progress in the field of musicology, and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid
1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories of general, antiquity, middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century.
 
CAIRSS (Computer Assisted Information Retrieval Service System) is a bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. It includes citations from over 1,300 different journal titles. Eighteen primary journals are indexed comprehensively.
 
A national organisation which aims to collect and promote the use of digital data resources to support research and teaching in the performing arts.
 
Cross
institutional project to enhance and sustain the research library base for music through the creation of computerised bibliographic records for 110,000 items of printed music. The project proposal, details of schedules and targets, and information on core bibliographic standards are available.
 
Extensice collection of links arranged by subject heading including Western Music by Period, Thematic Studies, Research and Musicology.
 
Links to academic music resources including scholarly societies, journals, music databases, music publishers' and vendors' sites.
 
A searchable index of over 25,000 items from 475 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present. Updated monthly.
 
Information about public domain materials, facilitating the identification of freely available music and songs. Includes details of individual music, collections and compendiums, and also features an alphabetical list of royalty
free music.
 
Database of composer bibliographies and other information, indexed by topic or subject. Includes headings such as Gospel music, musical theatre, ragtime, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, John and Alan Lomax and Stephen Sondheim.
 
An experimental project to pilot the use of the Metropolitan Area Networks to deliver educational materials to music students in Scottish universities. The NetMuse packages include many materials for which copyright permission has been sought such as transcriptions, music notation, recorded sound, pictures and translations.
 
Tools for finding music related articles, research papers, dissertations, and similar materials.
 
Links to resources about musical research and theory.
 
PATRON is a pilot project to develop a multimedia electronic library system to deliver on
demand digital audio, video, scores and text in the areas of music and dance across high-speed broadband networks to the desktop. The project is driven by the need to improve access to audio, video and scores in the library.
 
Information about Musica Scotica, a series of editions of early Scottish music which aim to serve both practical and scholarly needs. Includes details of published and forthcoming editions.
 
Offers a searchable index of traditional Irish song titles. Includes further information about tunes and recording details. Also includes an index of albums, searchable by artist, title, or instruments employed.
 
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