Researching in the Performing Arts @ CCM

An international network of over 30 organisations, IAMIC aims at becoming the foremost global network to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and expertise in the field of music documentation, promotion and information, leading to an increased international cooperation, performance and use of repertoire of music of all genres.

Cecilia is IAML(UK & Ireland)’s online searchable database of descriptions of music collections in libraries, archives, and museums throughout the UK and Ireland. At present there are descriptions of over 1800 collections from about 600 institutions including libraries, conservatories, museums, national trust houses, cathedral libraries, and specialist societies. The collections cover everything from scores, audio-visual materials, musical instruments, manuscripts, and a fascinating array of musical artefacts. Individual entries are kept up to date by the relevant institution.

Volumes in the Oxford Handbooks in Music series to which UC Libraries have online access.

Music e-books published by Oxford University Press, appearing in the Oxford Scholarship Online collection.

Volumes in the Cambridge Companions to Music series to which UC Libraries have online access.

Volumes in Routledge Handbooks Online series, subject = Arts, to which UC Libraries has online access. The link provides access to resources for which UC is licensed to provide full-text access or open access. Use facets to left if you wish to see further RHO resources.

The Society of American Music's index to more than 25 centers of American music with descriptions explaining available resources at each.

Oral History of American Music (OHAM) originated in 1969, when Vivian Perlis, a reference librarian in the Yale School of Music, began recording interviews with friends and colleagues of Charles Ives. Today the collection comprises more than 2,900 audio and video interviews with composers, jazz musicians, and other major musical figures. The collection resides in Gilmore Music Library and is a key resource for the School of Music as well as for musicians, students, scholars, arts organizations, and the media worldwide. OHAM staff continue to record and preserve new interviews with emerging talents as well as established artists.

An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. By examining those holdings afresh and querying them in a new and feminist light, the curators of the Women Working collection have aggregated thousands of items that illuminate women's history. The result is a unique digital collection comprising over 650,000 individual pages from more than 3,100 books and trade catalogs, 900 archives and manuscript items, and 1,400 photographs. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.

A digital collection of more than 10,000 early cylinder recordings held by the UCSB Library. To bring these recordings to a wider audience, the Library makes them available to download or stream online for free.

The Library of Congress's National Jukebox includes early recordings digitally transferred from the collections at the Library’s Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and from other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings. The Jukebox initially launched more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Content is increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles of other Sony-owned American labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others. Detailed metadata about Jukebox recordings can often be found on the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) website.(http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/).

This database of master recordings made by American record companies during the 78rpm era is part of the American Discography Project (ADP), an initiative of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Packard Humanities Institute.
DAHR currently includes information on more than 327,000 master recordings (matrixes) made by Victor, Columbia, OKeh, Berliner, Edison, Zonophone, Leeds & Catlin, Brunswick, and Decca. The ADP is a partner with the Library of Congress National Jukebox project and provides most of the cataloging data used in the Jukebox. As a result, 11,000 recordings made by Victor and Columbia between 1900 and 1925 can be streamed online. An additional 35,000 masters from Columbia, Okeh, Zonophone and Edison are also available via UCSB's streaming player or embedded YouTube links.
DAHR staff are currently editing masters for: all Bluebird issues; Victor's 1940s ethnic, popular and classical masters; Victor's 1950s Latin American recordings; selected ethnic and foreign Columbia issues; leased Gramophone masters issued by Victor; and Brunswick issues from 1927 through 1931.

The Lomax Digital Archive provides free access to audio/visual collections compiled across seven decades by folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002) and his father John A. Lomax (1867–1948). The entirety of Alan’s photographs and open-reel tape recordings—made between 1946 and 1991—are available here, as well as transcriptions of his 1940s radio programs, and a selection of clips from his film and video-work of the 1970s and 1980s. The LDA also contains several large audio collections the Lomaxes made, together and apart, on instantaneously recorded discs under the auspices of the Library of Congress’ Archive of Folk Song between 1933 and 1942. They are presented here in partnership with the LC’s American Folklife Center.

Alarmed by the collective loss of creative voices, musical recordings, and cultural spaces, Detroit Sound Conservancy was established in 2012. We create programs and provide leadership in the preservation of musical heritage in a spirit of partnership and celebration. Our arts and culture programming emerge from our commitment to careful archival practice and creative placekeeping. These programs include the Club Heaven Sound System, Detroit Sound Hall of Fame, and the Historic Blue Bird Inn Stage. Our collection includes the Graystone International Jazz Museum and Hall of Fame as well as thousands of additional artifacts, recordings, manuscripts, and oral histories.

The John Carter Brown Library is the preeminent research collection in the world for the study of the Americas prior to 1825. In its digital repositories are high resolution images from the Library's archive of early American images, map collection, and political cartoon collection, available through Luna. Scans of over 15,000 full books are available through Internet Archive. (Brown University)

Bronisław ("Nek") Mirskey (1887-1927) was a Polish violinist and conductor who worked as music director at several movie theaters across the United States between 1914 and 1927, including Toledo, Ohio, Punxsutawney and DuBois, PA, Richmond, Virginia, Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Dallas, and Kansas City. His efforts to improve the quality of musical accompaniment performed live for early silent film productions are an important part of the history of both music and cinema. Mirskey was considered one of the experts in the field, possessing a great intuition for selecting musical pieces, taking into account the tastes of the local audiences, and skillfully conducting orchestras in close synchronization with the films.
The collection contains the instrumental parts for approximately 3,500 musical compositions. The sets include numerous markings, marginalia, and manuscripts in Mirskey's hand, revealing certain patterns of preparing music material for performance. The open-access online collection includes digital scans of all the instrumental parts in each set, including those with performance markings.

These digitised volumes contain approximately 10,000 musical compositions that have been individually indexed. The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. They include music printed in Italy, Germany, France and England.
To browse Early Music Online via Royal Holloway’s digital repository: https://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/access/hierarchy.do?topic=52facdbd-19ce-2b92-dbd5-434289d29e8b&sort=rank&page=1
The British Library Catalogue gives access to catalogue records for all the digitised volumes, searchable by composer name and title of composition: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=BLVU1

This project puts sixteen sets of books expertly crafted by the Parisian printer Nicolas Du Chemin between 1549 and 1568 before a diverse audience of modern scholars and musicians in ways that prompt renewed understandings of their meanings and the books as cultural artifacts. In them, we can trace changing literary tastes, musical fashions, and above all the impact of the relatively new medium of printing on musical culture of the day.
Here readers find facsimiles of all sixteen sets of books, plus modern transcriptions, scholarly commentaries, and tools for research. There are also links to related projects, including a broader database of the sixteenth-century chanson repertory, a project devoted to the reconstruction of pieces with missing voice parts, and another devoted to the study and editing of the literary texts of the chansons themselves. All of this has been assembled under a number of headings designed to encourage researchers, students, and performers to explore the rich world of the chanson at mid century.

Chopin’s First Editions Online (CFEO) project’s chief aim was to create an online resource uniting the first impressions of Chopin’s first editions. This unprecedented virtual collection provides direct access to significant primary source materials relevant to the composer’s music. The full score of each first impression appears with commentary on significant textual features. There are also excerpts from the Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s First Editions.
The c5,500 digital images in the CFEO archive were obtained from five lead institutions (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bodleian Library, British Library, Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, and University of Chicago Library), and seventeen other libraries. The CFEO project was funded from March 2004 to August 2007.

CSI was founded to bring a concentrated source of art song to the greater Cincinnati area. Active engagement between performers and audiences is achieved not only through the song performances, but through the artists’ spoken contributions, providing context and historical background. CSI offers three types of content: CSI Mainstage offers series of concerts performed at Cincinnati venues, CSI Mobile offers concerts from a wider geographical area and different kinds of venues, and CSI Digital offers professional development webinars, artist and composer interviews, and innovative media projects.

New entries from The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, second edition (2014), now available on Grove Music Online.

SEM webpage collecting resources for the study and practice of ethnomusicology.

Useful resource guide organized geographically by country.

The British Library's collections of ethnographic sound recordings are available for non-commercial research, study, and private enjoyment.

The Lomax Digital Archive provides free access to audio/visual collections compiled across seven decades by folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002) and his father John A. Lomax (1867–1948). The entirety of Alan’s photographs and open-reel tape recordings—made between 1946 and 1991—are available here, as well as transcriptions of his 1940s radio programs, and a selection of clips from his film and video-work of the 1970s and 1980s. The LDA also contains several large audio collections the Lomaxes made, together and apart, on instantaneously recorded discs under the auspices of the Library of Congress’ Archive of Folk Song between 1933 and 1942. They are presented here in partnership with the LC’s American Folklife Center.

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.

Explore the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947, through the wonderfully rich and diverse manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.