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Music research

      Titles Descriptions
  1. A Traditional Music Library
  2. Alan Marsden: Software
  3. Arts and Humanties Data Service: Performing Arts
  4. CAIRSS for Music
  5. Canadian Music Periodical Index
  6. Cèilidh culture and higher education
  7. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
  8. Ensemble: Towards a Distributed National Library Resource for Music
  9. Internet Resources for Music Scholars
  10. Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
  11. Music at UCC: Web Resources - Research and Musicology
  12. Music at UCC: Web resources for study and research in music
  13. Music Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies and Table of Contents Services
  14. Music Research and Music Theory
  15. Music Theory Online: A Journal of Criticism, Commentary, Research, and Scholarship
  16. Musica Scotica
  17. Nutrocker
  18. PATRON: Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online
  19. PD Info: Public Domain Music

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A Traditional Music Library
Collection of traditional and folk music split into over 20 different songbooks or tune-books, each dedicated to a particular type of traditional folk or roots music. Features musical scores with chords from which users can print sheet music and lyrics, and MIDI files to illustrate what the tunes sound like.
     Author: Smith, Rod
     Subjects: music libraries, music research, musicology
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: directory
Alan Marsden: Software
Software developed by a member of staff at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts' Centre for Research into the Applications of Computers to Music, in connection with various research projects, for example, software to represent and manipulate melodies in a structural graph representation. Links are provided to the corresponding research papers.
     Author: Marsden, Alan
     Subjects: music, music research, software
     DeweyClass: 780.285
     Resource type: software
Arts and Humanties Data Service: Performing Arts
A national organisation which aims to collect and promote the use of digital data resources to support research and teaching in the performing arts.
     Author: Glasgow University
     Subjects: dance, film studies, music education, music research, theatre studies
     DeweyClass: 790
     Resource type: documents
CAIRSS for Music
CAIRSS (Computer Assisted Information Retrieval Service System) is a bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. It includes citations from over 1,300 different journal titles. Eighteen primary journals are indexed comprehensively.
     Author: University of Texas at Austin, San Antonio
     Subjects: music education, music research, music therapy
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: bibliography
Canadian Music Periodical Index
A searchable index of over 37,000 items from 630 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present. Updated monthly.
     Author: Library and Archives Canada
     Subjects: music research
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: index
Cèilidh culture and higher education
Article examining the learning processes and means of transmission in traditional Scottish and Irish music that have significant implications for the teaching of music in higher education Downloadable as a PDF, with Abstract available in German and Spanish.
     Author: Byrne, Charles & Sheridan, Mark
     Subjects: music education, music news, music research
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: article
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
An index to dissertations in progress in the field of musicology, and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories of general, antiquity, middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century.
     Author: Indiana University School of Music
     Subjects: baroque music, music research, musicology, renaissance music, twentieth century music
     DeweyClass: 780.73
     Resource type: bibliography, thesis index
Ensemble: Towards a Distributed National Library Resource for Music
Cross-institutional project to enhance and sustain the research library base for music through the creation of computerised bibliographic records for 110,000 items of printed music. The project proposal, details of schedules and targets, and information on core bibliographic standards are available.
     Author: Ensemble Project
     Subjects: music libraries, music research
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: documents
Internet Resources for Music Scholars
Links to academic music resources including scholarly societies, journals, music databases, music publishers' and vendors' sites.
     Author: Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
     Subjects: music research, musicology
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: index
Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Offers a searchable index of traditional Irish song titles. Includes further information about tunes and recording details. Also includes an index of albums, searchable by artist, title, or instruments employed.
     Author: Ng, Alan
     Subjects: music research
     DeweyClass: 780.9
     Resource type: reference data
Music at UCC: Web Resources - Research and Musicology
Links to general musicology and music research resources covering introductory guides, literature, bibliography, discourse and contacts.
     Author: Everett, Paul
     Subjects: music research, musicology
     DeweyClass: 780.92
     Resource type: index
Music at UCC: Web resources for study and research in music
Extensice collection of links arranged by subject heading including Western Music by Period, Thematic Studies, Research and Musicology.
     Author: Department of Music, University College Cork, Ireland
     Subjects: music education, music research
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: index
Music Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies and Table of Contents Services
Tools for finding music related articles, research papers, dissertations, and similar materials.
     Author: Buchanan, Nancy & Atkinson, Jennifer, University of Houston Libraries
     Subjects: music collections, music research
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: document
Music Research and Music Theory
Links to resources about musical research and theory.
     Author: Sibelius Academy
     Subjects: music research
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: index
Music Theory Online: A Journal of Criticism, Commentary, Research, and Scholarship
Music Theory Online (MTO) is the refereed electronic journal of the (US) Society for Music Theory. Each issue includes articles, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of International Correspondents. In addition, MTO publishes announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for papers, a list of job opportunities, abstracts of recently completed and in-progress dissertations, and summaries of recently published books. MTO is fully searchable and previous issues can be browsed by volume and author. Also provides links to other notable online music journals and magazines.
     Author: Society for Music Theory
     Subjects: music research, music theory
     DeweyClass: 781
     Resource type: journal
Musica Scotica
Information about a series of scholarly editions of early Scottish music, studies, and recordings, under the general editorship of Dr. Kenneth Elliott. The publications aim to serve both practical and academic needs. Here are included details of published and forthcoming editions.
     Author: Glasgow University Music Department
     Subjects: early music, music research, scottish music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: productinfo
Nutrocker
Collection of resources relating to MP3 resources,including software and utilities.
     Author: Nutrocker
     Subjects: music research, music software
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: directory
PATRON: Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online
PATRON is a pilot project to develop a multimedia electronic library system to deliver on-demand digital audio, video, scores and text in the areas of music and dance across high-speed broadband networks to the desktop. The project is driven by the need to improve access to audio, video and scores in the library.
     Author: Surrey University Library
     Subjects: audio systems, dance, music research, music software, on-demand publishing, video
     DeweyClass: 780.7
     Resource type: documents
PD Info: Public Domain Music
Information about public domain materials, facilitating the identification of freely available music and songs. Includes details of individual music, collections and compendiums, and also features an alphabetical list of royalty-free music.
     Author: Haven Sound, Inc.
     Subjects: music collections, music news, music research
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: documents, sound collection