History of Music

The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

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 Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

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

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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PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources

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

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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Irish Song Project

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, irish, medieval-music, music, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century

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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Concert Programmes Project

History of Music, Music | music, 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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A Big Data History of Music

History of Music, Music | 16th-century, 17th-century, 20th-century, eighteenth century, library, manuscripts, nineteenth 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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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources

Irish Song Project

Concert Programmes Project

A Big Data History of Music

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