Music

A Big Data History of Music

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, library, manuscripts, music sheets, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, twentieth century

British Library dataset of printed music, freely available for download and analysis, as a result of the data cleaning undertaken in this project.

Data type: text

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Open Acoustic Impulse Response (Open AIR) Library

Composition, Music | video games

A collection of modelled and measured acoustic data from locations across the world, with data available in a variety of spatial audio formats. Also supported with a set of online anechoic recordings and acoustic analysis tools.

Data type: audio

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Irish Song Project

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, Ireland, Middle Ages, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, songs

This is e a digital catalogue of 230 songs from the medieval period to the early nineteenth century, categorised according to generic type, musical incipit and other features and thus permitting for the first time comparison of songs distant in time but linked across history by melody, form or audience. Facsimile images of manuscript and early printed editions are provided, as also modern musical annotation and commentaries on each song.

Data type: audio, images, text

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PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources

History of Music, Music | Europe, fifteenth century, sixteenth century, typography

metadata resource containing mise-en-page information on all extant manuscripts (c.300) and editions (c.80) of Western polyphony from c.1480 to c.1530

Data type: text

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music sheets, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes, violin

Details of over 200 Scottish printed sources of vernacular violin music from before 1850, along with images and indexes of 22 books from the University of Glasgow and Perth’s A K Bell Library. You can browse the collection, search for tunes and composers, and play the tunes.

Data type: images

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Data underpinning ‘A map of the pibroch landscape, 1760–1841’

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes

This database includes bibliographical and summary details of over 200 printed sources of Scottish fiddle music from before 1850. Most of the sources are substantial printed collections, but the database also includes some of the hundreds of surviving single-sheet publications. 22 sources have been digitised and indexed complete.

Data type: text

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes, violin

a comprehensive catalogue of 27 Scottish manuscript sources of violin music from before 1750, with around 3500 tunes all searchable by name, Theme Code and other features.

Data type: text

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The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue

Folk Music, Music | England, ethnography, folklore, Ireland, performance, Scotland, songs, twentieth century, United States, Wales

The James Madison Carpenter Collection is a major collection of traditional song and drama, plus some items of traditional instrumental music, dance, custom, narrative and children’s folklore, from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the USA, documented in the period 1927-55.

Data type: text

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Concert Programmes

Music | concert, program

The sheer number of individual programmes means that creating a union catalogue at item level is not a viable option in the short or medium term. Instead, the Concert Programmes Project aims to create an online database of concert programme holdings in the UK and Ireland at collection level to enable scholars and music lovers to locate material that may be relevant to their research and and interests, and library professionals to identify priorities for collection development and preservation.

Data type: spatial, text

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100 Ballads

Music, Social History | crime, Early Modern, England, folk music, seventeenth century, songs

Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here.

Data type: audio, images, text

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