Subject Guide » Music: By Subject
History and Musicology
8 resources available.
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Books on Music History and Musicology
General histories, ML 160-161; by time period, ML 162-197; by country, ML 197-350 (General Stacks)
American Musicological SocietyEstablished in 1934 to advance research in various fields of music. Especially useful is their comprehensive list of "Web sites of interest to musicologists."
Center for Research Libraries Music CollectionsCRL's music collections include source materials related to opera, English church music, jazz, instruments, American music prior to 1830, and many others. WMU faculty and students may borrow CRL materials through interlibrary loan.
Center for the History of Music Theory and LiteratureProvides access to several music history- and theory-related databases: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online; Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography; Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarium and Saggi musicali italiani (databases of theory treatises).
College Music SocietySupporting research and scholarship in music.
Renaissance and Baroque Music Chronology: ComposersTimelines of composers and music history, twelfth through eighteenth centuries.
RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales
An inventory of music manuscripts, secondary sources, librettos, libraries. RISM's goal is to locate and catalog all surviving musical sources from the earliest times to about 1800. In print in the library. More info
RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales: United Kingdom and IrelandThis site offers free access to RISM information about manuscripts in British and Irish libraries. Search or browse. Downloadable incipits are included. More info
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