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SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
"...lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is provided, but also information about the collections which are to be found within the institutions."
Editor: Paul S. Ulrich
SIBMAS - SociÈtÈ Internationale des BibliothËques et des MusÈes des Arts du Spectacle (International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts)
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American Music Therapy Association
American Musicological Society (AMS)
Artists Network of Refuse & Resist
"Artists dedicated to creating a Culture of Resistance"
Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Inc. (ARSC)
The Banff Centre Music and Sound Home Page - (dead link)
Center for Black Music Research
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca (Italy)
Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music (DIEM)
Experience Music Project (EMP)
Includes an expanding EMP Digital Collection
Popular music museum at Seattle, USA.
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
International Computer Music Association (ICMA)
IRCAM: Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique
M.U.S.I.C. - (dead link)
Musicians United for Songs In the Classroom
Includes a Song Directory of 1,400 songs relevant to education, tools for teachers and a Gallery of students' visual and written work.
Music, Mind, Machine: Computational Modeling of Musical Knowledge and Cognition
Norwegian Music Information Centre
Onde-Spirale
"Onde-Spirale is a group of talented people that compose music for films and television. Many tracks to listen to in free streaming audio."
Recording Industry Association of America
RÈpertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies
San Jose State University - Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
Society for American Music
(formerly known as The Sonneck Society)
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
Stanford University - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
University of Birmingham - Electroacoustic Music Studios
University of Edinburgh - Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments
"...is one of the most important collections of its kind. It attracts musicians, instrument makers, organologists, as well as students and non-professional visitors from all over the world. It consists of over 50 instruments dating from the end of the sixteenth century through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Instrument types include the harpsichord, spinet, virginal, clavichord, organ and fortepiano. All are authentic examples from the historical period, many of which retain important and interesting original features."
University of Texas - Institute for Music Research
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