Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Links
Institutions and Associations
Websites of the »Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz« (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
Web Resources for Musicology
Obviously, this collection of links cannot encompass the range of high-quality content available on the World Wide Web. It is intended more to trigger intellectual curiosity, as well as provide points of departure for independent research. The arrangement of links follows the classification system of the SIMPK's library.
Search Engines
Reference Works
Bibliographies and Catalogues
Periodicals/Series
Musicology
Music History
Biographies of Musicians
Music Theory
Systematic Musicology
Organology
Related Disciplines
Musica Practica
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Institutions and Associations
AMS American Musicological Society
CIMCIM
Comité International des Musées et Collections d'Instruments de Musique · Comité Internacional de Museos y Colecciones de Instrumentos Musicales · International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections
Deutscher Musikrat
miz Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum
DMgA Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv
euromuse.net
Network of European Art and Cultural History Museums
GfM Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
Fachgruppe Freie Forschungsinstitute in der GfM
IAMIC International Association of Music Information Centres
IMS International Musicological Society
IMD Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt
Museumsportal Berlin
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Websites of the »Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz« (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
»Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz« (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
bpk - Die Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Geheimes Staatsarchiv
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Das Föderale Programm der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
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Search Engines
MetaGer
German-Language Meta-Search Engines.
Die Suchfibel
How to search for and locate information on the internet?
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Reference Works
Encyclopedias
Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universal-Lexicon (1732)
From the Munich Digitalization Center of the »Bayerische Staatsbibliothek« (Bavarian State Library).
Krünitz, Oekonomische Encyclopaedie (1773-1858)
From the »Universitätsbibliothek Trier« (Trier University Library).
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1888-1889)
Initiatives by Christian Aschoff and Till Hänisch.
Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
Rough draft searchable texts, without images.
Virtuelle Allgemeinbibliothek
Systematically organized and extensively annotated links to numerous related areas. An initiative by Ingrid Strauch.
Wikipedia
The most significant open-content encyclopedia.
Biographies
ADB & NDB
Allgemeine and Neue deutsche Biographie. From the Munich Digitalization Center of the »Bayerische Staatsbibliothek« (Bavarian State Library).
Name Authority File of the Library of Congress, Washington DC.
Arnold Dreyblatt: Who's Who in Central & East Europe 1933
More art than science.
Dictionaries
Adelung, Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch (1811)
From the Munich Digitalization Center of the »Bayerische Staatsbibliothek« (Bavarian State Library).
Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch
A project by the »Universität Trier« (Trier University).
Dictionary English
Portion of LEO (TU Munich).
Dictionary French
Portion of Leo LEO (TU Munich).
List of Dictionaries
From Arabic to Hungarian; Page from the Erlangen List.
List of online translation services
By Word2Word .
Machine translation
AltaVistas Babelfish.
Other Databases: Film
CineGraph
About 300 articles from the respected loose-leaf dictionary »edition text + kritik« (edition text + criticism).
filmportal.de
Information about 30,000 German movies; an initiative of the »Deutsches Filminstitut« (German Film Institute).
IMDb The Internet Movie Database
More than 6 million entries about film works and persons.
Music: Biographies
Classical Composers Database
More than 2,100 entries, collected and edited by Jos Smeets.
Composer Informational Sites
A similarly comprehensive list of relevant sites from the meta-pages of ClassicalNet.
MLA Obituary Index
Obituary bibliography of the Music Library Association (USA).
Orpheus Trust
Music in exile; a database by the Association for the Study and Promotion of Persecuted and Forgotten Art, Vienna.
Encyclopaedia of Musical Terms
Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie
Edited by Albrecht Riethmüller. The arrangement of HmT articles can be seen here hier.
Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi
Developed by the »Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften« (Bavarian Academy of Sciences).
Thesaurus musicarum latinarum
Other Musical Databases
GEMA: Online Database - Musical Works
Of limited usefulness used to search for titles.
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Bibliographies and Catalogues
Periodicals Bibliography
ZDB: The world's largest specialized database for serial titles
Theoretica: sound systems, tonality, tuning
Tuning & Temperament Bibliography
Huygens-Fokker Foundation, Centre for Microtonal Music, Amsterdam.
Dissertations/PhD Thesis
DDM-Online
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, AMS (American Musicology Society).
DissOnline
Online-Dissertations listed by the »Deutsche Nationalbibliothek«
Dissertationsmeldestelle "dms" der GfM
Music Theory Online: Dissertation Index
Music (Musica practica et theoretica)
RISM
Hofmeister XIX
Hofmeister's musical literary monthly reports (digital assets and database, 1829-1900).
Hofmeisters musical literary monthly reports
(digital assets, 1829-1947).
Music (Musica theoretica)
BMS online
»The Bibliography of Music Literature« has more than 315,000 records of literature on music. online since 2006.
CAIRSS for Music
Over 16,000 bibliographic references to music education, music psychology, music therapy and music for medicine, produced by the Institute for Music Research of the University of Texas.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Produced with the assistance of the bibliographical editors at the SIM. Fee required; available on CD-ROM in the SIM library.
Svensk musikhistorisk bibliografi
A part of the Swedish national bibliography LIBRIS.
Library Catalogues
Library of the »Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung«
The Online Catalogue of the »Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin« (Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - StaBiKat)
KOBV: Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg
Association of Public Libraries in Berlin - VÖBB
DigiBib NRW
Portal of the University Library Center of »Nordrhein-Westfalen«.
GVK - GBV Union Catalogue
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)
Libraries and Library Catalogs - World
Digital Libraries
vascoda
Meta-searches through 20 virtual academic libraries, information networks and the »Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek« (EZB) (Electronic Journals Library).
OAIster: Datenbank Digitaler Ressourcen
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
Archivserver DEPOSIT der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
Volltextserver der HU Berlin
GDZ Digitale Bibliothek der SUB Göttingen
Volltextserver "MIAMI" der Uni Münster
Recordings
General inventory of holdings
British Library National Sound Archive
DNB Deutsches Musikarchiv (German Music Archive)
Recorded Sound Reference Center
Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
The Virtual Gramophone (Canada)
Österreichische Mediathek
Svensk Mediedatabas (Sweden)
Schweizerische Landesphonothek (Swiss National Sound Archives)
Company catalogues
Bielefelder Kataloge Klassik und Jazz
Catalogue of recordings available in Germany.
Firmendiskographien historischer Label
Semer, Tri-Ergon, Vox u. a. (Rainer E. Lotz).
Company discographies of historical record labels
Odeon, Zonophone and others. (Christian Zwarg).
Special Directories
King's College London Sound Archive
The King's Sound Archive includes some 150,000 78rpm records, mostly UK issues, covering classical and popular releases from the c1900 to c1960.
Klaus-Kuhnke-Archiv für Populäre Musik
Directories of sound archives
IASA-Mitgliederverzeichnis
To be found under »Links«.
Netzwerk Mediatheken
The virtual presence of significant non-book collections in Germany.
Periodicals/Series
General press info
Institut für Zeitungsforschung
Musicological Periodicals/Series
Directories
List of the EZB: Musikwissenschaft
Early Music Periodicals (listed by Indiana University, Bloomington
Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Music Dept.
Selected individual titles
Codex flores: Onlinemagazin für Musikästhetik
Critical Musicology
ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal
FZMw Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft
The Gramophone
Journal of the Royal Music Association
Searchable texts retrievable in the SIM library.
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
MTO Music Theory Online
nmz Neue Musikzeitung
Soundsite
Studia Musicologica Academiæ Scientiarum Hungaricæ
Full text in the SIM library available.
Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning
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Periodicals/Series from other fields of interest
DigiZeitschriften
»DigiZeitschriften« (Digizines) makes German magazines of importance to researchers directly accessible via the WWW. The complete range of offerings is retrievable in the SIM library.
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Musicology
Selected links and meta-pages
Sites of Interest to Musicologists compiled by AMS
Médiathèque de l'IRCAM
Associations
AMS American Musicological Society
GfM Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
IMS International Musicological Society
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Music History
Music history by epoch
Carolina Classical Connection
Music history by category
Vocal music: liturgical setting
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Opera
OperaGlass
Materials for the opera, including librettos and further links.
Jazz
Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
Ballet, Dance
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln
Popular Music
Chair for Popular Music History & Theory (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik (Humboldt University of Berlin)
IASPM - International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
IASPM D-A-CH - German-speaking branch of IASPM
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Biographies of Musicians: portrayals and directories
Individual presentations (selected websites)
Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach-Archiv Leipzig
Bach, Johann Sebastian Göttinger Bach-Katalog
Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach Bibliography (Yo Tomita)
Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethovenhaus Bonn
Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven digital
Beethoven, Ludwig van An Eroica Project
Eric Grunins site contains not only a special discography for Beethoven's op. 55, but also various statistical analyses of the audio files.
Hindemith, Paul Hindemith-Stiftung
Mahler, Gustav Médiathèque Musicale Mahler
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum
Nono, Luigi Archivio Luigi Nono
Schönberg, Arnold Arnold Schönberg Center
Strauss, Richard Richard-Strauss-Institut, Garmisch
Contains a bibliography of Strauss by Christian Broy.
Strauss, Richard Richard Strauss online
Strawinsky, Igor Strawinsky-Interpretationen 1946-1985
A directory of (West) German radio recordings by Diethelm Paulussen.
Wagner, Richard Richard Wagner Archive
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Music Theory
Music Theorists (1400-1900)
Saggi musicali italiani
(Indiana University - Jacobs School of Music - Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature)
Traités français sur la musique
(Indiana University - Jacobs School of Music - Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature)
Electronic Music
EARS: ElectroAcoustic Resource Site
Electronic Music Foundation
Verbände
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie
Society for Music Analysis
Society for Music Theory
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Systematic Musicology
Sound system, tonality, tuning
Centre for Microtonal Music
Organology
Musical Instrument Museums
List of the »Comité International des Musées et Collections d'Instruments de Musique« (CIMCIM).
Musée des Instruments de Musique Brüssel
Museum of Musical Instruments, »Grassi Muesum« (Leipzig University)
Museum of Musical Instruments, Markneukirchen
Musée de la Musique Paris
National Music Museum Vermillion, SD
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Subharmonische Mixturen mit dem Subharchord
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Related Disciplines
History and ancillary historical sciences
Clio-online - »Fachportal für die Geschichtswissenschaften«
History Guide
Erlanger Historikerseite
Digital Version of the »Grotefend«, 1st Edition, by Horst Ruth
Deutsches Historisches Museum: Quellen
Literature studies
BDSL-ONLINE: Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaft
»Eppelsheimer-Köttelwesch«, free access for reports from the years 1985-1995.
Erlanger Liste zur Literaturrecherche
English & American Literature
Searchable text archives by Chadwyck.
Oxford Text Archive
Project Gutenberg
Searchable text archives of literature published before 1923.
Archival and library sciences: Inventories, central directories of bequests of personal papers and manuscripts
Bundesarchiv, ZDN
IMAPSC International Music Archives and Primary Source Collections
Portal Kalliope (SBBPK, Berlin)
The »Kalliope-Portal« is the central entry point for searching personal papers and manuscripts in Germany and includes the 1.2 million documents listed in the central register of manuscripts.
Kallías
Catalogue of the »Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach«.
Audiovisual Media (History and Technology)
Dead Media Project
Under the heading »Working Notes«, descriptions of various obsolete media are categorized.
Recording Technology History by Steve Schoenherr
Leo Kestenberg, Kunst und Technik
Online edition by epOs Music .
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Musica practica
VARIATIONS Online Musical Scores
A project of the Indiana University.
International Music Score Library Project