Databases

  1. Analytical Search Software [Macintosh]. Cope, David and Jones, David EvanSanta Cruz, CA: Research Center for Computer Modeling of Musical Process-Music Board; 1992University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
    Rec #: 590
    Call Number: Updated 1997; information from SMT Newletter, Aug 1992
    Notes: THIS CENTER NO LONGER EXISTS DUE TO LACK OF FUNDING.
    Abstract:
    This software will be the result of a project (still in progress) to develop software for performing elaborate searches and user-defined analyses of large musical databases--from individualpieces to libraries of hundreds of pieces. These tools will initially address the extensive on-line score library of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH), but will eventually address databases developed by individual users.

     

  2. Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature [Web Page]. Available at: http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl.
    Rec #: 1251
    Call Number: update 2002; information obtained from Center for theHistory of Music Theory and Literature newsletter
    Abstract:
    Established in 1998 as a joint venture of Indiana University's School of Music and the Office of Research and the University Graduate School, the Center for the history of Music Theory and Literature (CHMTL) brings together various actvities, publications (both electronic and conventional), and projects centered at the School of Music at Indiana University. In addition to its current activites, CHMTL anticipates expansion with additional full-text databases, publications, conferences, and occasional fellowships for visiting scholars.

     

  3. The Chronicle Guide to Grants [CD-ROM / IBM]. Chronicle of Philanthropy and Chronicle of Higher EducationWashington, DC: Chronicle Guide to Grants; 19971255 Twenty-Third St NW, Washington, DC 20037, 800-287-6072.
    Rec #: 592
    Call Number: Updated 1997; information provided by publisher
    Notes: Cost: $395 (CD-ROM); $295 (diskettes); 30-day free examination
    Abstract:
    A new and better way to find the money you're looking for through foundation grants and corporate gifts. Your subscription gets you: electronic listing of 55,000+ grants given by over 2000 foundations (12,000+ with diskette version) as well as board member and officer names and grant application guidelines for some; 5 updates bringing you nearly 2,000 new listings every 2 months; and fast searching.

     

  4. DDM Online: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology [Web Page]. Available at: http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm.
    Rec #: 1255
    Call Number: updated 2002; information obatined from the CHMTL newsletter by the Indiana University School of Music
    Abstract: Browsable online database of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.

     

  5. E-Studio [Windows/ NT]. Rochester, NY: Parakeet Publications; 1998PO Box 26884, Rochester, NY 14626, 716-663-8767.
    Rec #: 593
    Call Number: Updated 1998; information provided by publisher
    Notes: Cost: $39.95; demo at website
    Abstract:
    E-Studio is a teaching Studio Management databse application. E-Studio is designed to help private music instructors track their students, lessons, performances, and expenses. Reports can be generated with ease to show studio statistics as well as unpaid lessons and performances. E-Studio includes a Personal Secretary module that politely asls for information about past lessons and performances that the user has not commented on. When the Personal Secretary has learned whether the event took place or not, and whether or not payment was receives, it will not ask about that event again. This feature, along with many others,help music teachers keep up-to-date records which, in tuen, makes year end taxes musch easier.

     

  6. Entertainment Industry Contacts Database: Westrock EnterprisesPO Box 3631, Seal Beach, CA 90740, rock@westrock.net.
    Rec #: 1216
    Call Number: updated 2002; information provided by publisher
    Notes: cost (single): $9.95 + $1.50 (postage and handling-US)
    Abstract: Current, up to date list of Major/Minor Labels, Production companies, Agents, Attorney, Unions, Producers and more in database format for imputting into any address book, contact list or other programs. The List has ben compiled over years of hard work and pounding a lot of pavement in ordr to make contacts. Nationwide contacts.

     

  7. Essen Folksong Data [IBM]. Dahlig, Ewa, compilerMenlo Park, CA: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities; 1994Braun Music Center, Stanford University #129, Stanford, CA 94305-3076.
    Rec #: 594
    Call Number: Updated 1996; information obtained from publisher
    Notes: Cost: $25.00
    Abstract:
    This databse includes 10,000 monophonic transcriptions in Essen Associative Code (ESAC) including transcriptions of song corpora from diverse German-speaking lands (eg., Austria, Bohemia, Upper and Lower Saxony, the Netherlands). and from the early Liederbucher. The musical encoding are encapsulated within an ASCII text database that can be processes using the DOS relational database program AskSam. All materials are readable as standard text files.

    Contents of this offering include the original corpus of 10,000 pieces together with the DOS program ana, which performs queries on the encoded musical information to provide inventories, pitch descriptions, melodic reductions, and perspectives on form.

     

  8. Historical American Sheet Music Website [World Wide Web]. Durham, NC: Duke University; 1998Digital Scriptorium, Soecial Collections Library, Durham, NC, 919-660-5913.
    Rec #: 595
    Call Number: Updated 1998; information provided by publisher
    Notes: On the web at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu
    Abstract:
    The result of over a year of work by project staff and Duke University stuents, the web site includes digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850-1920.

    The selection presents a significant perspective on American History and culture. The sheet music chosen for digital reproduction represents a wide ariety of music types including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic an politcal songs, plantation songs, Civil War Songs, sprituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin Pan Alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection is particularly strong in antebellum Southern Music, Confederate imprints, and Civil War Songs. Also included are piano music of marches, variations, opera excerpts, and dance music, including waltzes, quadrilles, polkas.

    A rich Encoded Archival Description (EAD) databse of information about the music is searchable and browsable in a variety of ways, and the site includes background information about the music itself as well as the social, cultural, and politcal events that shaped the songs an that are depicted in the pieces. Also included is technical information helpful to those considering or planning digital imaging projects.

    Will become part of the Library of Congress' American Memory site early in 1999.

     

  9. International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text [World Wide Web]. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey; 1998Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 300 N Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1553.
    Rec #: 596
    Call Number: Updated 1998; information provided by publisher
    Notes: Cost: please inquire
    Abstract:
    IIMP Full Text is the next-level music information resource on the World Wide Web. It combines the power of searching thesaurus-controlled indexing of Chadwyck-Healey's International Index to Music Periodicals with the added depth of full-text searching. It will also deleiver the full text of retrieved articles from many important music journals at the click of a mouse.
    The inital release will consist of all IIMP plus the full text of current (1996 forward) articles from 40 of the most important music journals, as prioritized by the IIMP advisory board, that the database can either host or link to. It also contains retrospective records to 1874.

     

  10. International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) [CD-ROM / World Wide Web]. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey; 1996Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 300 N Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1553.
    Rec #: 597
    Call Number: Updated 1998; information provided by publisher
    Notes: Cost: please inquire
    Abstract:
    IIMP is the only electronic index to current music periodicals with abstracts. IIMP draws its current content from 400 international music periodicals from more than 30 countries. Over 50 of them are indexed exclusively in IIMP. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.

     

  11. International Index to the Performing Arts [World Wide Web]. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey; 1997Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 300 N Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1553.
    Rec #: 598
    Call Number: Updated 1998; information provided by publisher
    Notes: Cost: please inquire
    Abstract:
    the IIPA is a comprehensive index to the journal literature of the various genres of the performing arts, searchable together for the first time in the same electronic database. IIPA is a dynamic bibliographic resouce for the performing arts information and research community.
    IIPA will not only provide access to hundreds of performing arts periodicals from 1998 nwards, it will provide access to many selected titls retrospectively - some all the way back to their inception. The initial release will contain more than 25,000 records. IIPA will grow to cover 130,000 records by April 1999.

     

  12. MuseData [MIDI / Kern / IBM]. Menlo Park, CA: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities; 1994Braun Music Center, Stanford University #129, Stanford, CA 94305-3076.
    Rec #: 599
    Call Number: Updated 1996; information obtained from publisher
    Notes: Cost: varies from $10.00 to $75.00 depending on compositions and formats
    Abstract:
    The CCARH databases of musical information, now collectively called MuseData, have been under development since 1984. Many hundreds of works for the standard repertory have been encoded in the CCenter's system of representation. This is a highly detailed specification intended to support applications in notation, sound generation and analysis. Files are edited to the highest standards.

    MuseData files are now being translated to the Kern format used by the Humdrum Toolkit and to an enriched MIDI specification that we call MIDI+. MIDI+ files include general MIDI instrument specifications, reinforced parts, realized ornaments, and other refinements to improve the listening experience. All rhythmic information is quantized (metronomic).

     

  13. Music Admin Pro: Electronic Courseware Systems Inc.1713 S. State Street, Champaign, IL 61820, 800-832-495, sales@ecsmedia.com.
    Rec #: 1194
    Call Number: updated 2002; information provided by publisher
    Notes: Cost: $595.00
    Abstract:
    A simple to use and intuitive program which handles all administrative aspects of running a music department, a band program or instrument tuition. Features include: Access and cross-reference any information on students, parents, teachers, ensembles, progress reports, hire, instruments, resources, lesson charges, teacher pays, purchases, etc. from one relational data file. All reports and lists can be viewd on the screen, printed or exported to programs such as Word, Excel, etc.

     

  14. The Music Index on CD-ROM [CD-ROM / Windows / Macintosh]. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press; 199723630 Pinewood, Warren, MI, 48901, 800-886-3080.
    Rec #: 601
    Call Number: Updated 1997; information provided by publisher
    Notes: Cost: from $660 to 1995.00 US dollars; networking available; 30-day free trial
    Abstract:
    For more than 40 years, Harmonie Park Press has published the print edition of the Music Index and is now pleased to announce a totally new Music Index on CD-ROM using FolioViews 3.1, a powerful search and retrieval tool. With FolioViews you will be able to search on any subject heading, word combination, or bibliographic information in The Music Index. In addition, you can printyour search results, save to your word processor, and customize inforation with electronic notes, highliters and bookmarks. The Music Index on CD-ROM is also a hypertext product. You can link to related headings and cross reference by following the green underlined text on the screen. You can also linkto the book review section, following the blue links to the main author's last name. As an electronic book, The Music INdex on CD-ROM has an automated table of contents which allows you to quickly browse the infobase.

     

  15. Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography [Web Page]. Available at: http://www.music.indiana.edu/borrowing.
    Rec #: 1256
    Call Number: updated 2002; information obtained from the CHMTL by the Indiana University School of Music
    Abstract:
    Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography is an online bibliography of published materials and theses relgating to the uses of existing music in the tradition of Western music. This is a wide field, embracing borrowing, quotation, allusion, cantus firmus technique, paraphrase, imitation/parady, modeling, variations, transcription, intabulation, quodlibet, medley, pasticcio, sampling, and other ways of reworking existing music, from troping and organum to collage and electronic manipulation.

     

  16. The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers 1690-1783 [Windows]. New York, NY: University Music Editions; 1998PO Box 192, Fort George Station, New York, NY 10040, 800-448-2405.
    Rec #: 604
    Call Number: Updated 2002; information taken from Chronicle of Higher Ed
    Notes: Cost: $99.00
    Abstract:
    Provides users with an index of references to dance, music, theater, and poetry in early American newspapers, including French and German language publications. The data base contains items from nearly 60,000 newspapers and includes descriptions of choreography, costumes, instruments, and performances. Users can learn about a variety of topics including musicians for hire at church services, funerals, militia exercises, and other events.

     

  17. Saggi Musicali Italiani: A Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics [Web Page]. Available at: http://www.music.indiana.edu/smi.
    Rec #: 1253
    Call Number: updated 2002; information obtained from CHMTL newsletter by the Indiana University School of Music
    Abstract:
    Saggi musicali italiani (SMI) is an evolving database for texts of Italian music theory and aesthetics, initiated and directed by Andreas Giger. Following the model of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, SMI makes its texts available in electronic form, allowing them to be downloaded, browsed, and searched. The development of SMI is being undertaken at Louisiana State University, affiliated with the CHMTL, which provides technical support, Web server space for the database, and a search engine.

     

  18. Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras [Web Page]. Available at: http://www.music.indiana.edu/tme.
    Rec #: 1254
    Call Number: updated 2002; information obtained from CHMTL newsletter by the Indiana University School of Music
    Abstract:
    Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (TME) is an evolving database, initiated and directed by Peter M. Lefferts. It is designed to extend the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) and to continue endeavor of capturing Western European texts on music theory and aesthetics in electronic form. the development of the TME is being undertaken at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, affiliated with the CHMTL, which provides technical support, Web server space for the database, and a search engine.

     

  19. Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum [Web Page]. Available at: http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml.
    Rec #: 1252
    Call Number: updated 2002; information obtained from the CHMTL newsletter by the Indiana University School of Music
    Abstract:
    The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum is an evolving database tht will eventually contain the entire corpus of Latin music theory written uring the Middle Ages and the Renaisance.