CCARH Related Links

Subject pages attached to ccarh:

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1.	Database Index [Humdrum] Index of music in the Humdrum data format. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Music824/databases.index.html

2.	DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music aims to preserve and enhance grahphical views of existing sources of medieval polyphony in British libraries. URL: http://www.diamm.ac.uk/
3.	Music Archives and Databases A country-by-country listing of performing materials available and/or orderable on the Web. URL: http://www.webcom.com/musics/catalogs.html
4.	SCRIBE Medieval Music Database (La Trobe University Library) 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; c.7800 items, chiefly from the fourteenth century, are included (2000). Many of the image reproductions are stunning. URL: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au:80/AudioVisual/MusicDB/About.html
5.	Digital Beethoven House The Beethoven Haus in Bonn (DE) possesses more than 4000 manuscripts, which form the basis of this collaboration with the GMD to develop a resource for teaching and research. URL: http://imk.gmd.de/docs/ww/vas/DigitalBeethoven/

6.	American Sheet Music [Library of Congress] [audio (Read Audio, WAV); graphics (GIF, JPEG, TIF)] URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html
7.	Choral Public Domain Library [CPDL] [Finale/PDF, Encore/PDF, and MIDI files] URL: http://www.cpdl.org/download.htm
8.	Sheet Music Archive of the GMD (MuTeX) URL: http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores
9.	An Online Christmas Songbook [Christopher R. Baker] URL: http://rememberjosie.org/carols/

10.	Art Museum Image Consortium [images] The AMICO database of 50,000+ thumbnail images of museum holdings has a corollary descriptive database which may be searched for search terms as "music" and "dance". URL: http://www.amico.net/home.html
11.	Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature [texts] CHMTL coordinates several projects related to the study of music theory. Some are listed separately below. URL: http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl
12.	Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project [texts, bibliographies] This database includes bibliographical and textual sources for the study of the ballad in Spanish-speaking countries. URL: http://www.cartah.washington.edu/romance/router.htm
13.	RILM [bibliography of writings] This comprehensive bibliographical database of writings contains abstracts for many thousands of scholarly publications on musical topics. Access requires an institutional license, and some users may not be able to logon simply by linking. URL: http://www.rilm.org/fscat.html
14.	RISM [bibliography of musical manuscripts] The RISM project has collected detailed bibliographical information on musical manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in 60 countries. This link accesses a public site at Harvard University, where information for U.S. holdings and selected items from outside the U.S. are found. Information about European holdings is distributed on a CD-ROM with search software made available under license by K. G. Saur. URL: http://www.rism.harvard.edu/rism/DB.html
15.	Saggi musicali italiani [texts and commentaries] The purpose of this database is to make available Italian music theory texts and commentaries. URL: http://www.music.indiana.edu/smi/INTRO_TEXT.html
16.	Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum [texts, image encodings] The TML has produced ASCII encodings of Latin music-theory treatises (and portions of philosophical works dealing with music theory) from the sixth through the sixteenth centuries. Special codes have been developed for the representation of musical examples. URL: http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/start.html
17.	Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum [texts, images, notation, sound files] The TML, developed by Frans Wiering, provides full-text encodings of important Italian music theory treatises. It includes a CD-ROM containing all the works of the sixteenth-century polymath Gioseffe Zarlino. The encodings include complete "as is" texts, authority files, and scans of illustrations. Musical examples are encoded in MIDI (for sound) and DARMS (for printing). URL: http://www.euromusicology.org/tmiweb/tmiweb.htm
18.	The Latin Motet: Indexes to Printed Collections, 1500-1600 [bibliography] Supports searching of a database of material describing Latin motets printed in the sixteenth century under four rubrics: first line of text, physical location of source, RISM print number, and composer name. URL: http://www.binghamton.edu/faculty/lincoln/latin-motet.cgi
19.	The Cambridge History of English and American Literature [topical encyclopedia] A reprint of the 1907-21 edition (18 vols.). Out of print, not updated, but free! It covers some topics that have all but disappeared from modern analogues. URL: http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/chapterindex.html
20.	The Glenn Gould Archives [Performer Archive] This virtual museum of biographical and bibliographical info about the pianist also includes a score of Webern's Konzert Op. 24 marked up for performance and RealPlayer versions of previously unreleased tapes. URL: http://www.gould.nlc-bnc.ca/egould.htm
21.	RISM Database of Opera Libretti (US) This searchable database of bibliographical information contains records or more than 11,000 items preserved in the Library of Congress. URL: http://www.rism.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/zform.CGI?RISMLib
22.	RISM Database of Thematic Catalogues This searchable database of bibliographical catalogues concentrates on the music of composers active between 1600 and 1825. URL: http://rism.harvard.edu:80/cgi-bin/zform.CGI?RISMBib
23.	RISM Directory of Music Libraries [Supplementary list for Italy] [Supplementary materials for Denmark] All of the 5,500+ libraries listed in this searchable database hold musical manuscripts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. URL: http://rism.harvard.edu:80/cgi-bin/zform.CGI?RISMLibDir
24.	Musical Instrument Collections: Technical Drawings Descriptive information about technical drawings of historical instruments. This project is a copperative one currently involving 25 museums and representing many dozens of instrument makers. URL: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/iwd.html
25.	Bodleian Library (Oxford) Broadside Ballads This collection of 30,000 ballads from the 16th through the 20th centuries is represented by various kinds of sound and graphics files. It also contains links to other ballad projects. URL: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
26.	The Perseus Project This resource-site for classicists has useful tools for those peripherally involved with antiquities. For example, it contains translations, secondary sources, Greek and Latin grammars, and an atlas of the ancient world. URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

27.	Music Notation Resources Includes links to: Common Music Notation, Csound, DARMS, Finale, Humdrum, Score, SMDL, SMX. URL: http://www.gst.net/~flubble/notation.html
28.	Notation and the Computer [auf Deutsch] [in English] Common music notation and computers: SMDL, NIFF, DARMS, GUIDO, abc, MusiXML URL: http://www.s-line.de/homepages/gerd_castan/compmus/index_e.html
29.	Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes [CCARH] The purpose of Beyond MIDI is to provide a general description, with encoded examples, of numerous ways of representing music in the computer. URL: http://www.ccarh.org/publications/books/beyondmidi
30.	Mockingbird [Logical representation] [en françlaais] John Maxwell, the co-developer of the interactive Mockingbird music-editing system (c.1983), gives an overview of the problems of representing music for notation. URL: http://www.liafa.jussieu.fr/~bouzaien/debut4.html
31.	abc Musical Notation Language [Chris Walshaw] abc is a language designed to notate tunes in an ASCII format. It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin (such as English, Irish and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard classical notation. [ software | musical data] URL: http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/
32.	Musical Notation (online article from Encyclopedia Brittanica An easily available overview of notation from the Middle Ages to the present, with basic descriptions of neumes, mensural notation, common musical notation, recent notations, and related topics. URL: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/4/0,5716,118774+6+110127,00.html

33.	Humdrum Main Page Humdrum is a set of general-purpose software tools intended to assist music researchers in posing and answering research questions. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/
34.	Musical Animation Machine Stephen Malinowski's scrolling "piano-roll" scores permit color-coding of parts, musical features, pitch-classes, and other elements of music. URL: http://www.well.com/user/smalin/circle.html
35.	Melodic Matching Techniques (Alexandra Uitdenbogerd and Justin Zobel) An overview of melodic matching techniques from the perspective of computer science and artificial intelligence. Proposes a three-stage approach. Tests based on MIDI data. URL: http://woodworm.cs.uml.edu/~rprice/ep/uitdenbogerd/
36.	Fugal analysis Color-coded display of MIDI representations of Bach fugues, designed to show phrase segmentation and subject recognition. URL: http://leon.cs.uni-bonn.de/forschungprojekte/midilib/english/fugendemo.html
37.	Form and analysis [Tim Smith] [Northern Arizona University] Graduate Course in Analysis Offered on the World-Wide Web. Contains an interesting animated analysis of the opening of Schoenberg's Op.11 No.1 . URL: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/smt.html
38.	String-Matching for Melodic Comparison [H. Goeman, M. Clausen, F. Kurth] ["Skyline" algorithm] This approach pads longer temporal values to facilitate comparison by the shortest duration present. See also the same authors' work on the visual display of melodic information extracted from polyphonic MIDI files ["Skyline" algorithm]. URL: http://leon.cs.uni-bonn.de/forschungprojekte/midilib/english/notes2lcs.html

39.	Humdrum Main Page Humdrum is a set of general-purpose software tools intended to assist music researchers in posing and answering research questions. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/
40.	FAQ [Humdrum] Frequency Asked Questions for Humdrum URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/FAQ.html
41.	Users Guide [Humdrum] [detailed index] URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/guide.toc.html
42.	Command list [Humdrum] A list of all of the Humdrum commands with links to their documentation in the reference manual. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/commands.toc.html
43.	Representations [Humdrum] A list of all predefined Humdrum representation, such as the **kern representation. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/representations.toc.html
44.	Reference Records [Humdrum] A list of all of the official reference records in Humdrum. URL: http://www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/guide.append1.html
45.	Sample problems [Humdrum] A list of 350 sample problems that can be addressed using Humdrum. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/problems.html
46.	On-line resources [Humdrum] A list of Humdrum resources available on the Web. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/resources.html
47.	On-line review of Humdrum [Music Theory Online] A list of Humdrum resources available on the Web. URL: http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.7/mto.96.2.7.wild.html
48.	Instrumentation Codes List of standard Humdrum instrumentation codes. URL: http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/guide.append2.html

49.	hcal Calendar conversion tool for printing calendars in the Gregorian or Julian calendar systems. URL: http://musedata.stanford.edu/hcal
50.	Internationale Dokumentation Elektroakustischer Musik This relational database of 20,000+ electro-acoustic compositions (as of January 2000) was developed by the Technische Universität in Berlin in collaboration with the German Society for Electroacoustic Music. It is a valuable resource for the history of twentieth-century music. It is fully searchable online and is also downloadable. URL: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/EMDoku/EMIntro-D.html
51.	The History Data Service Resources for historical data pertaining to the United Kingdom. The associated Data Archive contains a large collection of machine-readable materials in the social sciences and humanities. The linked BIRON catalogue is also useful. URL: http://hds.essex.ac.uk/