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Mutopia Project

Free sheet music for everyone

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The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. A team of volunteers are involved in typesetting the music by computer using the LilyPond software. A growing number of modern editions, arrangements and new music are also available for download. The respective editors, arrangers and composers have chosen to make these works freely available.

International Music Score Library Project

Petrucci Music Library

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IMSLP is a subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores.

Loeb Music Library

Digital Scores and Libretti Collection

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The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School. Many, such as variant editions of nineteenth century operas and related libretti, fall into intellectually related sets that are meant to be seen and used together. As a group, they give scholars a window into the study of historical performance practice that cannot be duplicated using the holdings of any one other library.

Million Song Dataset

MSD

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The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks. The core of the dataset is the feature analysis and metadata for one million songs, provided by The Echo Nest. The dataset does not include any audio, only the derived features. Note, however, that sample audio can be fetched from services like 7digital, using code we provide.

Digitale Mozart-Edition

Digital Mozart Edition

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"The Digital Mozart Edition (DME) aims at making accessible the oeuvre of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–1791) in digital formats. Access is free of charge for everybody."

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)

Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik

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The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) - International Inventory of Musical Sources - is an international, non-profit organization that aims to comprehensively document extant musical sources worldwide. These primary sources are music manuscripts or printed music editions, writings on music theory, and libretti. They are preserved in libraries, archives, churches, schools and private collections. RISM was founded in Paris in 1952 and is the largest and only international organization that documents written musical sources. RISM records what exists and where it can be found. As a result, by virtue of being cataloged in a comprehensive inventory, music traditions are protected while also being made available to musicologists and musicians alike. Such work is thus not an end in itself, but leads directly to practical applications.

CMO Editionen und Quellen-Katalog

Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae Editionen und Quellen-Katalog

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CMO is a long-term project for the critical edition of Near Eastern music manuscripts. The project focusing on manuscripts of Ottoman music written in Hampartsum and staff notations during the nineteenth century, is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This platform provides access to the online versions of both music and text editions, as well as the source catalogue, which is a comprehensive database of printed, manuscript and online sources.

DIAMM

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

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DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.

DNBLab

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The German National Library offers free access to its bibliographic data and several collections of digital objects. As the central access point for presenting, accessing and reusing digital resources, DNBLab allows users to access our data, object files and full texts. The access is available by download and through various interfaces.

mdw Repository

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mdw Repository provides researchers with a robust infrastructure for research data management and ensures accessibility of research data during and after completion of research projects, thus, providing a quality boost to contemporary and future research.

Sound and Vision

Beeld en Geluid

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Sound and Vision has one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. The institute manages over 70 percent of the Dutch audiovisual heritage. The collection contains more than a million hours of television, radio, music and film from the beginning in 1898 until today. All programs of the Dutch public broadcasters come in digitally every day. Individuals and institutions entrust their collection to Sound and Vision as well. The institute ensures that the material is optimally preserved for (re)use. Broadcasters, producers and editors use the archive for the creation of new programs. The collection is also used to develop products and services for a wide audience, such as exhibitions, iPhone applications, DVD boxes and various websites. The collection of Sound and Vision contains the complete radio and television archives of the Dutch public broadcasters; films of virtually every leading Dutch documentary maker; newsreels; the national music depot; various audiovisual corporate collections; advertising, radio and video material of cultural and social organizations, of scientific institutes and of all kinds of educational institutions. There are also collections of images and articles from the history of Dutch broadcasting itself, like the elaborate collection of historical television sets.

Theater und Musik in Weimar 1754 - 1990

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Being both, a demand as well as a chance of the present age of information technology for cultural preservation and continuation, public databases possess an immense importance for providing a comprehensive access to cultural material as far as their contents and also their clientele of users are concerned. Therefore, an exemplary completely preserved stock of primary sources as the one of the Weimar theatre is no less than an invaluable piece of luck, possibly just due to the manageable local conditions of this small (former courtly) town in the middle of German language area. In this English version, first this rare cultural-historical phenomenon and its sources are described. Furthermore, the data- and metadata-contents within the Weimar theatre- and music-ephemera database are presented. Finally, the principal opportunities of searching this (meta-)data pool are explained, where presumed to be necessary supported by screenshot images from the internet platform.

UCLanData

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Repository of research data sets created under the auspices of the University of Central Lancashire

Medienarchiv der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

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The Media Archive of the Zurich University of the Arts is the platform for collaborative work, sharing and archiving of media at the ZHdK. It is available to students, lecturers, reserarchers and staff. The areas of application of the media archive are mainly focused on teaching and research, but the ZHdK departments archive and university communication also benefit. The media archive manages a wide range of visual and audiovisual content and supports collaborative forms of working. It serves as an instutional repository for research data management and as a platform for hybrid publications.

Digitale Sammlungen

Digital Collections

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The Digital Collections include digitized manuscripts, prints, music, maps, photographs, newspapers and magazines from the rich holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Almost the entire content (>98%) is available for download for research purposes or via IIIF APIs, including all available OCR data.

SLUB Sammlungen

SLUBArchiv.digital

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Founded in 1556, the SLUB today houses a variety of collections. The Library collects most comprehensively media from and about Saxony (Saxonica) and – commissioned by the German Research Foundation – literature on contemporary art, photography, industrial design and commercial art, and history of technology. In addition, also the music and the map collection have a special rank. These and other valuable materials are summarized in the special collections department. Finally the Deutsche Fotothek as one of the most important photo archives in Germany has a prominent role.

Wittliff Collections - Digital Collections

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The Digital Collections repository is a service that provides free and open access to the scholarship and creative works produced and owned by the Texas State University community. The Wittliff Collections, located on the seventh floor of the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University, was founded by William D. Wittliff in 1987. The Wittliff Collections include 2 collections. 1. The Southwestern Writers Collection: These Collection holds the papers of numerous 20th century writers and the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection. The film holdings contain over 500 film and television screenplays as well as complete production archives for several popular films, including the television miniseries Lonesome Dove. The music holdings represent the breadth and scope of popular Texas sounds. 2. Mexican Photography Collection: The Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection assembles a broad range of photographic work from the Southwestern United States and Mexico, from the 19th-century to the present day.

Bach digital

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The Bach portal is a database for researchers and practical musicians interested in Johann Sebastian Bach and the whole Bach family. It contains detailed, fully searchable findings from research into Bach and high-resolution scans of works and sources.

Europäische Geschichte Online

European History Online

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EGO examines 500 years of modern European history by transcending national, disciplinary and methodological boundaries. Ten thematic threads tie together processes of intercultural exchange whose influence extended beyond national and cultural borders. These range from religion, politics, science and law to art and music, as well as to the economy, technology and the military. EGO employs the newest research to present European transfer processes comprehensively in a way that is easy to understand. The articles link to images, sources, statistics, animated and interactive maps, and audio and visual clips. EGO thereby takes full advantage of the Internet's multi-media potential.

Work With Data

The Data Library

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Work With Data functions as a data library, collecting data from multiple reliable sources and merging them altogether into one database. It focuses on access through insights, datasets and api.

Paths through Rome

WGRM

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Collection of maps showing reconstructions of routes and paths through Rome described in Renaissance guidebooks and antiquarian literature.

Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library

Kujawsko-Pomorska Biblioteka Cyfrowa

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The KPDL covers cultural heritage, scientific and regional collections – digital copies of different forms of publications: books, journals, graphics, articles, leaflets, posters, playbills, photographs, invitations, maps, exhibition catalogues and trade fairs of the region. The Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library is to serve scientists, students, schoolchildren and all the citizens of the region.

UAL Research Online

University of the Arts London Data Repository

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This Repository holds research data for all research projects where there is a need to store and share the supporting research. According to current Research Data Policy these records will include all data from projects funded by RCUK funders and in particular the AHRC.

Artstor

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The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Its community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Digitale Sammlungen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

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Digital documents and collections hosted by the University Library - both freely available on the internet and access-restricted - can be found here.