compiled and briefly annotated with access addresses by
singer, songwriter, composer, synthesist
An Introduction to Online Resources for Music Research
Research Sites:
U523:
Multimedia Development for Music Research and Instruction: Semester
2 1997-1998: (Syllabus: Gary Wittlich and William Tilghman,
Indiana
University): "Course Goal:
To become familiar with ways that multimedia resources can be used in music
research and instruction Course work and requirements: U523
will be an individualized course for the most part. There will be some
in-class lectures, particularly to introduce topics, but in general you
will work on your own or in small groups. Your instructor will serve mainly
as a "guide on the side." Your primary assignments will be divided
between research and instructional applications in the form of projects:
Research and 2. Instruction." First-rate site with a links
to: suggestions for student research topics, instructional software
review, a guide to basic multimedia concepts and actions, articles, books
and dissertations, journals, Cook Music Library sources, web development
sites, HTML sites, resources for multimedia web development, search engines,
professional music societies, and miscellaneous URL’s (i.e., Princeton
music sites, CCARH, an FTP repository of music software, and a rhythm and
meter bibliography and glossary.)
http://ww.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/u523/u523.htm
American
Music Center: "Founded in 1939, by Aaron Copland and composers,
performers, publishers and educators, The American Music Center is the
only national service organization in the United States devoted exclusively
to the greater field of contemporary American music. AMC, with its
membership of over 2500, is an information and support center for contemporary
classical music and jazz, and provides a wide range of programs and services
including information services, grantsmaking, publications, workshops,
networking groups, a library of scores and recordings, and much more."
A wonderful organization with great advocacy and outreach programs, and
a very hip site. Particularly useful and engaging are NewMusicBox
, the AMC's monthly Web magazine (newly-granted the "first-ever ASCAP-Deems
Taylor Internet Award") and The
New American Music for Young Audiences Catalog, a catalog of contemporary
American music composed specifically for young audiences (preK through
grade 12). Searchable database, including a collection of over 30,000
scores and a collection of CD's.
http://www.amc.net
Archive
of Dissertation Abstracts in Music: Author listings with keyword
search capability.
http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Archive/Disserts/
Peter
Castine's Music Page: Fabulous collection of links: Institutes
of Higher Education (generally ones with programs in music and technology),
Associations for Copyright and Mechanical Rights, Other Professional Associations,
Periodicals and Other Sources of Literature, People involved in music,
MIDI Software Vendors, Miscellaneous Music Resources,
and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions; also includes an extensive FTP
repository of music software. The copyright material is especially
useful and well-organized.
http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~pcastine/Music/
Center
for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics: (CCRMA),
maintained by Stanford University,
with broad categories of: Information, Overview, Events, Courses,
Software, Homes, and Neighbors, with links to course syllabi, The Catgut
Musical Acoustics Research Library (a collection of resources in musical
acoustics research), The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities
(CCARH - data resources in music research and allied areas of humanities
study), and Electronic Music neighbors on the Web (links to other web servers
in the computer and electroacoustic music field).
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/
William
and Gayle Cook Music Library Sources: (Indiana
University Bloomington Libraries), excellent
search tutorial and lists/links of Reserve Books and Scores, and Reserve
Recordings, including: Course
Reserves and Software
for Music.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Dissertations
in Music Theory: (Music Theory
Online), an index, organized alphabetically
by author.
http://www.boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/docs/diss-index.html
Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology-Online: (American
Musicological Society), maintained by
Indiana University School of Music and prepared as a service of the Thesaurus
Musicarum Latinarum, an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography
of completed dissertations since mid-1995, arranged under the broad categories
of General/Miscellaneous, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque,
Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/
Institute
for Music Research: (University
of Texas at San Antonio), music research
in the areas of music psychology and music technology, divided into six
categories: Online Services (including CAIRSS, a bibliographic database
of more than 16,000 music research articles), Conferences, Research, Publications
(conference proceedings, monographs, multimedia software, and audio recordings),
and a Ph.D. proposal.
http://imr.utsa.edu/
Music
Resources on the Internet: Research Sites: (UCLA
Music Library), categorized by Lists,
Music Dissertations, and Selected Individual Sites.
http://wwwstage.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/web/research.htm
Music
Resources on the Internet: Societies and Associations:
(UCLA Music Library),
organized alphabetically by name, with links to dozens of professional
societies and associations.
http://wwwstage.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/web/society.htm
Music
Resources on the Internet: Technology and Music: (UCLA
Music Library), fully annotated listings
with links categorized by the following topics: Audio and Multimedia
Technology, Electronic/Computer Music, and Computer Research in Music.
http://wwwstage.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/web/techno.htm
New
Horizons in Scholarly Communications: (Librarians Association
of the University of California),
highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving,
and using information for instruction and research at the university level,
and includes categories of: Teaching, Research, Publishing, Access,
Additional Topics, What’s New, Recommend and entry, and Search Options.
The Research category is particularly useful, including links, for example,
to such sites as Academe This Week (a complimentary service of The
Chronicle of Higher Education), Arts and Humanities Data Service (a collection
of scholarly digital resources), and Online Music Scholarship Resources
(maintained by Institute for Academic technology, this Mellon Foundation
sponsored work provides annotated links to sites which specialize in information
technology and music scholarship).
http://libweb.ucsc.edu/scomm/
Page, Melvin.
"How to Cite
Internet Sources in Research Papers," 1995. A brief but
excellent citation guide derived from the essential principles of academic
citation in Kate L Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses,
and Dissertations, 5th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1987). Includes basic citation components and punctuation information,
and includes topical categories of: bibliographic citations and footnote
and endnote citations for , listserve messages, World Wide Web, FTP site,
Gopher site, Usenet group messages, and E-mail messages. Lists additional
source material on Internet citations.
http://gray.music.rhodes.edu/musichtmls/Quote.html
Research
Center for American Music: (Sonnek
Society), index and a fully-annotated
site listing of collections in all genres of American music. Each
annotation includes a specific Strength of Holdings category.
http://iberia.vassar.edu/sonnek/libraris.htm
RISM
Online: A comprehensive bibliographic database directory for
music manuscripts written after ca. 1600 and, in most cases, before ca.
1850. Standard bibliographic categories with annotated links to the
following web-searchable databases: RISM Series: A/II: Music
MSS after 1600, RISM-U.S. Libretto Database, RISM Libraries Directory,
RISM Bibliographic Citations Database.
http://www.rism.harvard.edu/DB.html
17th-Century
Music Dissertations: (Brandeis
University), prepared for the Society
for Seventeenth-Century music, a WWW database on and directory of
in-progress and recently completed dissertations concerned with all aspects
of 17-th Century music, filed since 1994.
http://www.library.brandeis.edu/17cendis.html
Society
for Ethnomusicology: Provides a forum for discussion of
current scholarly research, and fosters the promotion and development of
a variety of traditional art forms. Includes links to Organizations
and Societies, Ethnomusicology Websites, Ethnomusicology-Related Conferences,
Seminars and Proceedings, Journals, Libraries and Archives, Other Music-Related
Webpage Indexes, and Special Projects of Interest.
http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/index.html
Thesaurus
Musicarum Italicarum: (TMI), an electronic corpus of Italian
music treatises from the Renaissance and early Baroque in facsimile and
multimedia transcription, published as a series as CD-ROM's, and provides
links to additional documentation and demonstration materials.
http://candl.let.ruu.nl/Research/tmi/main.htm
Thesaurus
Musicarum Latinarum: (TML), an electronic corpus of Latin
music treatises from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, with some work
partially supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Humanities.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml
WWW
Sites of Interest to Musicologists: (American
Musicological Society), maintained by
UC Davis Music Department Library, extensive listing, including links in
the following categories: Academic Job Listings, Dissertations, Academic
Institutions, Music Libraries, Archives, and Online Catalogues, Journals,
Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias, Music Publishing, Music Societies and
Organizations, Opera and Song, Orchestras, Choirs, Ensembles, Church Music,
Early Music, Instruments, Composers and Competition, Theory, Computer and
Electronic Music, Rock and Pop, Jazz, Folk Music and Ethnomusicology, Music
in Latin-America, Women in Music, Music Education, Music Therapy,
Other Interesting Links, Funny Music Stuff, Insidious Term Papers for Sale
(to assist faculty in tracking down plagiarizers), Catalogue of music Resources,
The World on the WWW, Music FTP Sites, and How to Contact Elected Officials.
http://musdra.ucdavis.edu/Documents/AMS/musicology_www.html
Dr.
Judith A. Coe
Assistant Professor of Voice and Commercial Music
Coordinator of Voice
Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department
Arts Building 288H
Campus Box 162, P.O. Box 173364
Denver, Co 80217-3364
Phone: 303-556-6013
Fax: 303-556-2335
last modified 03/24/04
