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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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