Music History & Studies: 

Databases & Archives

See also our Jazz History and Folk Music pages.

Archiv f¸r Oberschwaebische Klostermusik
Maintained by Rainer Naegele, W¸rttembergische Landesbibliothek

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
The allegro Catalogue of Ballads
"The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community."
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index
"Over 145,000 song titles (mostly popular music), almost 1,500 items indexed (song books, magazines, and other collections). Compiled from the collections of SJVLS Libraries and California Library System Reference Centers. Maintained by the San Joaquin Valley Information Service."
"This is an index to sheet music, NOT RECORDINGS."

Clara Schumann Home Page
Indiana University

Dictionary of American Hymnology
Oberlin College

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology - Online (DDM-Online)
"...is a database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Containing more than 11,600 records, including the contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology... Please note that DDM-Online does not include the dissertations themselves."

The Glenn Gould Archive
"This site was developed by the National Library of Canada which is the official repository of the archives of the late concert pianist, Glenn Gould. A supremely gifted artist and Canada's most renowned classical musician of the 20th century, Gould was a recording artist, radio and television broadcaster and producer, writer and an outspoken apologist for the electronic media. Visitors to this site will find a virtual exhibition drawn from his archival papers, a look at the National Library's audio archival tapes available using RealAudio, two searchable databases of the National Library's Glenn Gould Papers, research aids such as two chronologies, a Gould bibliography, lists of films, videos and radio broadcasts made by and about Gould, selections of writings by Gould and writings about Gould, works of art and of poetry inspired by him, and links to other related internet sites."

Gold and Platinum Database Search - (dead link)
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Historic American Sheet Music
- Special Collections Library, Duke University

The International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music (English, German, Spanish)
Includes a listing of studios and a large database with over 20,000 works from about 4000 composers.
A project of the Elektronisches Studios der TU-Berlin, Deutsche Gesellschaft f¸r Elektroakustische Musik

Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection Online
- Johns Hopkins University

MOTET Online Database
"The purpose for creating the database catalogue is to gain control of the motet repertory and its sources for the purpose of determining generalizations about the genre as a whole and of facilitating all aspects of motet research. The database will allow scholars the flexibility to investigate the motet and its many contexts from multiple vantage points simultaneously by enabling sorting on various fields separately and in combination."
By Dr. Jennifer Thomas, Assistant Professor, Music History, University of Florida.

Music of the Fourteenth Century: Databases
Latrobe University

Music Schools Database - (dead link)
University of Alabama

MuSICA: Music & Science Information Computer Archive
"Data Base Contents: Scientific research (references & abstracts) on music as related to behavior, the brain and allied fields." Updated weekly. Also includes MuSICA Research Notes, "...a newsletter issued Winter, Spring and Fall, that provides reports and critical analysis of research on music and behavior, including education, child development, psychology, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, clinical medicine, music therapy and allied fields."
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine

Performing Arts Data Service- PADS
"The PADS collects and promotes the use of digital resources to support research and teaching across the broad field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance. Its target audience is performing arts researchers, teachers and students in UK Higher Education."
Based at the University of Glasgow, Scotland

RISM Online - (dead link)

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum Database for Latin Music Theory
Indiana University

University of Jyv‰skyl‰: Research Project on Cognitive Musicology - (dead link)

University of Tennessee - George F. DeVine Music Library

• UT Song Index - (dead link) [citations only]
  "Find the words and music for over 50,000 songs in 15,000 collections of songs in the Music Library."

See also our Jazz History and Folk Music pages.

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