Internet Links for Music Research

ACADEMIC SITES WITH BROAD SCOPE:
Worldwide Internet Music Resources from Indiana University Music Library
A vast, selective list of links organized into broad categories, each with many subdivisions

Music Resources from Sibelius Academy, "the only music university in Finland"
A vast, selective list of links organized into many useful categories; keyword-searchable

DW3 Classical Music Resources
A large, searchable list from Duke University Music Library

Online Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University
A launchpad for serious music research

Music at UCC [National University of Ireland]: Web Resources for Study & Research in Music
Links organized mainly by historical periods, from University College, Cork 

Historical Research in Europe:  a guide to archives and libraries
from the Center for European Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

SPECIFIC PERIODS:
MEDIEVAL MUSIC:

Gregorian Chant Home Page
An important site for chant research, with useful interdisciplinary links

CANTUS  A Database for Gregorian Chant
Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the Divine Office 

La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
Modern scores and facsimiles of original manuscripts 

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
"The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance."

Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi
"Dictionary of Medieval Latin Musical Terminology to the End of the 15th Century"

Plainchant Homepage
a Belgian site featuring streaming audio of chant, a computer program for chant notation, and much more 

saggi musicali italiani
"saggi musicali italiani (SMI) is an evolving database for texts of Italian music theory and aesthetics."

Official Site of the Abbey of Solesmes
From the abbey renowned for spearheading the revival of Gregorian chant in modern times

THEMA
Transcriptions of 14 Latin theoretical treatises

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~cyrus/ORB/orbmusic.htm
ORB -- Introduction to Medieval Music from Vanderbilt University's On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies 

http://www.kb.dk/da/kb/nb/ha/e-mss/mdr.html
The Royal Library - Medieval Manuscripts, Digital Facsimiles of Copenhagen Manuscripts

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/
The Cantigas de Santa Maria, information about and facsimiles of the 13th-century manuscripts 

RENAISSANCE MUSIC:

RELICS

Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census

http://miml.library.vanderbilt.edu/index.php
MIML Musical Instruction and Musical Learning 1450-1650 "a web-based bibliography on Musical Instruction and Musical Learning from 1450-1650"

Three sites from the Society for Creative Anachronism:
SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage

SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage

SCA Minstrel Homepage

BAROQUE MUSIC:

Arto Wikla's Early Music Pages
An early music site featuring information about early instruments and instrument tablatures, with important links for early music research, especially Baroque

Bach-Archiv Leipzig
The Bach-Archiv is in the process of restoring and digitizing Bach's manuscripts 

CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC MUSIC:

Neue Mozart Ausgabe
The Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum has made the entire new edition of Mozart's complete works available online for anyone's personal use

Beethoven Bibliography Database
From The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University 

Beethoven-Haus Bonn
A very important center for Beethoven research

Chopin Early Editions
Full text of Chopin early editions held by the University of Chicago

MISCELLANEOUS:

Cecilia
A portal "Mapping the music resource of the UK and Ireland"

AMERICAN MUSIC

Colonial Music Institute
Includes essays about Colonial music for educational use 

DISCOGRAPHY

Online 78rpm Discographical Project 

HUMANITIES COMPUTING:

Voice of the Shuttle
A large humanities computing site with important links in several disciplines, the Music and Dance Page covering classical music topics and the Media Page covering popular music