Researching in the Performing Arts @ CCM

This guide was created after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In this guide you will find resources about the performing arts and cultural heritage of Ukraine, all of which have been disrupted by the war. Efforts to document and preserve this heritage are included here. This is a living document and will be updated as the conflict continues.

Use this guide to explore the musical traditions, compositions, and scholarship of Black, Indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) individuals. This is not an all-encompassing guide to BIPOC composers, but rather a list of resources to help start the scholarly conversation and encourage the study and performance of more diverse repertoire (music theory, music literature, audiovisual, & general resources, repertoire, professional associations, publishers & vendors, online blogs podcasts etc, and other useful subject guides).
Guide from McGill University Library, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Music by Black Composers (MBC) was born from the realization that young musicians learning classical music seldom, if ever, have the opportunity to study and perform music written by Black composers. This omission silences a rich vein of musical creation from global cultural consciousness. With a multi-pronged approach, MBC is spreading awareness of and access to music by Black composers to children and adults alike in ever-expanding ways.
In our pedagogical efforts, we are supplementing the current instrumental training methods by publishing books of music exclusively by Black composers from around the world. Starting with strings, each instrument will be the subject of multiple volumes, which will be graded by difficulty from beginner to advanced concerto-level playing. We also intend to publish music for wind and brass instruments, band, orchestra, and chamber ensembles. In addition to making this repertoire available, our books will also educate through articles and interviews. Each volume will include biographies for every composer, features on Black classical music making throughout history, and profiles of Black role models in classical music, past and present. Volume 1 for Violin (roughly equivalent in difficulty to Suzuki books 1-2) was released in October 2018.
MBC is also developing other educational and informational resources for students, performers, and members of the broader community. We are creating an online database which will provide information about works written by Black composers. Designed for use by students, teachers, performers, administrators, researchers, and librarians, it will contain facts about each composer and about individual pieces, information about where to find the music, links to recordings, and more. Other online resources include a bibliography of publications about Black classical music making, and a directory of living composers for those commissioning new works or simply seeking information. We also have a coloring book that features 40 of the most important Black composers from the 18th-21st centuries, and a timeline poster that features more than 300 Black composers from around the world.

This Humanities Commons Group webpage houses resources for music by composers of color. This site aims to extend beyond “traditional” topics of music theory and notated music in the Western art music tradition. Analytical notes are being made available, while a Google Sheet summarizes music theory topics that can be taught using the repertoire. We welcome submissions of annotated scores and lesson plans that incorporate the music of composers of color. This site will be continually updated with more resources for music theory instructors.
As a quick and manageable first step towards diverse and inclusive music theory pedagogy, many of the scores on this site are readily adaptable to the classroom environment. Simply swap out some "traditional" examples that you fall back on when teaching to introduce the representation of voices of color and non-canonic composers. An easy way to get started is to check out the examples collated in the "Music Theory Examples by BIPOC Composers."
It will be important to consider how to contextualize these examples—and more broadly, how to contextualize all musical examples. Online resources, as well as more details on music by composers of color are available, and biographical information for each composer is linked at the composer’s page.
If you want more thoroughgoing studies of pieces by composers of color, explore the Analytical Notes and Annotated Scores page. There, you’ll find links to a bookmarked Google Doc, which houses crowdsourced notes from group analysis meetings.

Our vision is to:
 To create a repository for concert works (those intended for the concert stage; aka classical works) of composers of the African Diaspora. The African Diaspora in this context is defined as those composers throughout the world descended from people of West and Central Africa.
 To provide access to scores, recordings, and programmatic information about these composers and their extant works for students, teachers, professionals and presenters.
 To encourage the research, exploration and performance of these works.
 To assist students who wish to enter the George Shirley African American Art Song and Operatic Aria Competition with appropriate repertoire choices.

This guide is designed to help you find information about Black music and musicians, in the United States and throughout the world. Use this as a starting point, or browsing tool.
Guide from Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music.

The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music is the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. It contains over 22,000 titles and continues to grow into the 21st century. The Collection houses virtually the entire standard repertoire and is internationally known for its many rare and out-of-print works. It is a unique source of 19th- and 20th-century American music.
The catalogue lists names, dates, and nationalities of composers, as well as instrumentation, and titles of complete, incomplete, and uncirculated sets held by the collection. Compiled by Gary Galván, Free Library of Philadelphia.

Founded in 1997, this is the home of interchange between performers and scholars interested in art song by African-American composers. Here you will find information and links to assist with your discovery of our contribution to song. Of particular interest are our pages featuring lists of composers, performers, scholars, and links to useful websites and projects.

CelloBello’s mission has always been to foster a global cello community, and to that end we hope this new database may help encourage new curiosities and explorations into this repertoire that, historically, has not been equally represented on our concert stages or in our music schools.
Over time we hope to expand our offerings to include a larger BIPOC database (highlighting all composers who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color). However, given the urgency of the struggle for racial equity and justice in the United States we felt it paramount to begin by focusing first on the plethora of contributions made by Black composers.
The information contained in the catalog is displayed using the criteria of composers’ name and personal website link (where available), as well as the works’ title, date of composition, duration, and instrumentation. Although this catalog does not grant specific information about purchasing scores for all of the pieces listed, it facilitates the search of scores and provides links of contact to the composers, where applicable.

 The Institute for Composer Diversity (ICD) works to encourage the discovery, study, and performance of music written by composers from underrepresented groups. We do this to positively impact three important groups: audiences and students who will engage with the music, conductors, performers, and educators who serve to bring that music to those audiences and students, and the composers themselves.
 ICD works in three main areas: databases, analysis, and action.
* ICD databases have been created to allow the musical community to discover works by composers from underrepresented groups.
* ICD analysis studies programming trends to provide evidence on where diverse programming is occurring and where it is needed.
* ICD action provides simple and effective ideas toward more diverse and inclusive repertoire decisions.
 The ICD operates within the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

The aim of this research guide is to amplify the repertoire, music, and scholarship about and by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). This guide is a starting point for faculty and instructors who want to decenter their pedagogical practices, performances, concert programming, or research:
 identify resources for bringing diversity, equity, and inclusion into teaching, performance, and research,
 learn more about musical traditions of underrepresented people and groups,
 locate repertoire beyond the Western European music canon.
Students may find this guide useful for identifying repertoire beyond the traditional canon and learning about music and musical traditions of BIPOC.
A number of resources in this guide are open access or freely available online, while others can be used to identify repertoire, literature, or other content that may be held at Tufts Libraries or other academic libraries.
Guide from Tufts University Libraries.

An organization of music creators who are achieving a workplace environment in the entertainment industry as diverse as our society. Our core membership is composers of diverse backgrounds, but we welcome all industry professionals who demonstrate a commitment to these goals in their hiring and mentoring practices. Our Mission:
1) To increase our visibility to industry producers and creatives via networking opportunities and performances.
2) To offer education and mentorship to emerging composers in underserved communities.
3) To service the community through music.

Black History & African American History Resources for Schools, Libraries & Classrooms. Black History Resources LLC was created to provide educators, teachers, schools & libraries with resources to educate students and adults on Black History, African American History and African History as it pertains to all facets and periods of our shared history. Black History shouldn't just be taught in February. It should be woven into the history curriculum at all grade levels throughout the school year so that it accurately reflects the reality of Black men and women's contributions not just to American History, but also to the collective history of humanity.
The resources we publish, distribute, and curate are intended to fill gaps and expand American history & world history curriculum to be more inclusive of historic African American people, achievements, events and places, especially those often overlooked by textbooks and current curricula.

This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them. European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved laborers to build the cities and extract the resources of the Americas. They forced millions of Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, and from one part of the Americas to another. Analyze these slave trades and view interactive maps, timelines, and animations to see the dispersal in action.

In 2013, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC—pronounced “Snick”) Legacy Project and Duke University formed a partnership to chronicle the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop ongoing programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive democracy in the 21st century. This documentary website tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation. The SNCC Digital Gateway portrays how SNCC worked to take control of their political and economic lives.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading Indians of North America -- music and followed by subheadings.

A comprehensive online catalog that contains orchestral music from Latin America and the Caribbean, containing over 9,000 original orchestral works by over 1,600 composers from 24 countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean. Created by conductors Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Andrés F. Jaime.

The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music is the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. It contains over 22,000 titles and continues to grow into the 21st century. The Collection houses virtually the entire standard repertoire and is internationally known for its many rare and out-of-print works. It is a unique source of 19th- and 20th-century American music.
The catalogue lists names, dates, and nationalities of composers, as well as instrumentation, and titles of complete, incomplete, and uncirculated sets held by the collection. Compiled by Gary Galván, Free Library of Philadelphia.

The Sphinx Catalog of Latin American Cello Works has been created in order to facilitate the access to information related to the work of Latin American composers centered on the cello. It is the most extensive source of its kind, with more than 2000 entries on the date of its release.
The catalog provides information about works where the cello has a prominent role as a solo instrument, soloist with orchestra, in duo with another instrument or electronic media, or in cello ensembles.
The catalog is based on original doctoral research by Dr German Marcano, prepared at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Sphinx Catalog of Latin American Viola Works has more than 820 entries, featuring music that prominently features the viola: in solo repertoire, as soloist with orchestra, duo repertoire with another instrument or electronic media, and in viola ensemble. The catalog also offers a vast compilation of chamber music works, in which the presence of the viola is considered relevant and worthy due to the unique qualities of the work’s musical language and the sound of the instrument.
The catalog displays the composers’ name, gender, country of origin, and dates, the works’ title, date of composition, duration, instrumentation, and editions.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading Latin American followed by subheadings.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading Music -- Latin America and followed by subheadings.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading Hispanic American and followed by subheadings.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading gender, as well as gender followed by another term (e.g. "gender identity").

A guide from to online and print resources on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and queer people, gender expression, and sexual identity (from Northeastern University Library)

Explore scholarship awards, advocacy groups, and professional networks that are making college more affordable and inclusive for the LGBTQIA+ community. The due dates are out of date, but the scholarship information is still useful and you can link to the website to find current due dates.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection through a keyword search on "LGBTQ+"

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 Database of ALAANA,* Women, and Gender Non-Conforming Composers.
* Chamber Music America uses the acronym ALAANA to indicate composers who identify as African/Black, Latinx, Asian/South Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, and Native American.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading women music followed by another term (e.g. "women music critics") and followed by additional letters (e.g. women musicians).

Masculinity and Men's Studies research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender, its function in cultures and societies, and its intersections with race and class (Guide from University of Florida Library)

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading masculinity followed by subheadings.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to a subject heading beginning with "transgender"

The Oxford handbook of music and disability studies [electronic resource] / edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus (New York : Oxford University Press, 2016).
The essays in this volume share a theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability is shown to be a core feature of the musical identity of music makers (especially composers and performers), something that affects their lives and works and their public reception. Music represents disability in various ways and affirms the notion that disability is a performance, something you do rather than something you are. These essays make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity. They also address an important lacuna within a Disability Studies that has mostly overlooked music as a medium through which disability can be constructed.

Broken beauty [electronic resource] : musical modernism and the representation of disability / by Joseph N. Straus (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018).
Broken Beauty illustrates how disability is right at the core of musical modernism; it is one of the things that musical modernism is fundamentally about. The most characteristic features of musical modernism-fractured forms, immobilized harmonies, conflicting textural layers, radical simplification of means in some cases, and radical complexity and hermeticism in others-can be understood as musical representations of disability conditions, including deformity/disfigurement, mobility impairment, madness, idiocy, and autism.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading disability studies, and to that heading followed by subheadings.

Discover items in the UC Libraries collection assigned to the subject heading people with disabilities, and to that heading followed by subheadings (e.g. "people with disabilities and the performing arts").

Digital musicology can be understood as a branch of digital humanities focusing on musical topics. Examples take on a variety of forms and styles, not limited to digital editions, sound archives, computational analysis, etc. This guide is intended to demonstrate extant resources and cultivate the potential for new projects. It is divided into three main categories: tools, projects, and open access aggregators+resources.
Guide from Duke University Libraries

This page features a range of interdiscplinary projects relevant to music that discuss engaging research questions using digital humanities techniques (such as static visualizations, interactive maps, archive databases). New projects are added as discovered, if they are worth sharing.
The page is organized into three sections: Musical Models, Sound-Related Models, and Other Humanitites Models.
Project of St Olaf's College.

Digital Musicology is a forum for musicological research engaged with digital technology. The term “musicology” is used in its broadest sense: including more traditional approaches, such as ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and music theory, as well as newer ones, such as music information retrieval, music library studies, and music perception and cognition. Articles engage not only with Western art music, but also non-Western art music and popular music from any regional tradition. Equal interests are represented for scholarship that engages with musical scores and recorded music, as well as scholarship engaged with written texts about the music itself or the context in which music is created or received.
The Digital Musicology specialty section showcases papers that describe new methods, tools, and infrastructures, papers that use existing technologies for both big and small data investigations of musicological questions, and papers that comparatively evaluate existing approaches. It also showcases papers that consider technical or philosophical issues related to the acquisition, representation, and standardization of musicological data. Digital Musicology is committed to supporting reproducible research, and encourages authors to make their algorithms, implementations, and datasets freely available, whenever possible.

The digital humanities has significantly influenced musicology, as evidenced by the number of leading journals that regularly review digital resources and by the increasing use of the tag ‘digital musicology’. This special issue of Nineteenth Century Music Review reflects a broad definition of the digital humanities, embracing digital archives, born-digital projects, and studies employing computational methodologies and tools. The issue brings together projects that represent a variety of ways in which the digital humanities is impacting the study of nineteenth-century music.

DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.

The Roaring 'Twenties extends Emily Thompson's groundbreaking 2002 book, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933, into new sensory registers and toward new audiences. The project richly draws from the Municipal Archives of the City of New York, cataloging over 600 unique complaints about noise around 1930 and reproducing over 350 archival pages. It also includes 54 excerpts of Fox Movietone newsreels -- early sound experiments that captured and remediated the sounds of New York City -- as well as hundreds of photographs and print materials. The data is mined through human filtering and detailed close readings. Presented here through a stylized multimedia interface, the site invites users to linger with the artifacts and to listen and read with care.

Database of records that include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators. Approximately 4,500 objects are currently available. GloPAD is a collaborative venture, and its development is based at Cornell University.

Musical Passage tells the story of a little-known record of early African diasporic music. The project aims to shed light on this unique document and to further efforts to understand the early history of this fundamental cultural movement.

Vectors launched in 2005 as a journal devoted to multimodal research, often featuring projects produced collaboratively through a fellowship model. Although that model is now outgrown, Vectors continues to offer a platform for experimenting with the forms and potentials of online scholarship. Vectors continues its role of pushing the boundaries of research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. As always, our goal is to showcase work that is not easily contained by the conventions - often still limited to portable documents and embedded video files - of contemporary electronic publication.

Thresholds is a digital zine. We custom-design each issue, generating provocative collisions of art and ideas. The result is creative / critical digital digital handiwork, a hand-stitched sampler of texts and ideas.

Freedom’s Ring is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, animated. Here you can compare the written and spoken speech, explore multimedia images, listen to movement activists, and uncover historical context.

In 2013, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC—pronounced “Snick”) Legacy Project and Duke University formed a partnership to chronicle the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop ongoing programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive democracy in the 21st century. This documentary website tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation. The SNCC Digital Gateway portrays how SNCC worked to take control of their political and economic lives.

sx archipelagos is a born-digital articulation of the Small Axe Project. It is a peer-reviewed publication platform devoted to creative exploration, debate, and critical thinking about and through digital practices in contemporary scholarly and artistic work in and on the Caribbean. Given the wide implications of the “digital turn” for our very conceptions of knowledge, our mission is to discern the ways in which the digital may enhance and transform our comprehension of the regional and diasporic Caribbean. sx archipelagos responds to this challenge with three distinct dimensions of critical production: scholarly essays; digital scholarship projects; and digital project reviews.

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides 12 million students and faculty with access to more than 26,000 films each year. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more. This guide explains how to request access to a Kanopy film at UC.

Composed is a ground breaking film helping to change the way we talk about the performance anxiety. This essential resource for musicians, artists, and anyone training for the stage shows that those suffering stage fright are not alone. Even the pro’s get nervous, and there are answers out there for anyone willing to watch.