Music Cataloging at Yale Cataloging at Yale

General resources

• Authority tools for audiovisual and music catalogers: an annotated list of useful resources
• DW3 from Duke University; note: this is an archived version of the page; it is no longer being maintained

Composer biographies     (See also: Lists of composers' works on the Web)

• AMS composer home pages
• Composers of African Descent
• American Composers Alliance
• American Composers Forum
• ccm composers-classical-music com includes 7494 composers
• The christian fellowship of art music composers
• Classical and contemporary composers
• Classical composers
• Classical composers database
• Classical music on the web: British and Irish composers || Non-British composers
• Composer pages from Stanford University
• Composers from Indiana University
• Composers (from T. Moore): A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Composers biographies from The Gaudeamus Foundation
• Composers' homepages from Simmons College
• Composers-classical-music
• Composer homepages from Duke University
• Les compositeurs from CDMC (Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine)
• Contemporary classical music
• Dichter und Komponisten (Poets and composers)
• Directory of composers on the net from Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers
• IRCAM Alphabetical list of composers
• Jewish Music WebCenter
• Komponisten-Daten
• Library of Congress copyright search: books, music, etc.
• The living composers project
• Meet the composer
• MusicMoz: Contemporary composers || Early 20th-century composers
• Musiques actuelles: Les compositeurs classiques || Les compositeurs contemporains
• New Music jukebox from the American Music Center
• Notamorn
• RISM composer database
• Russian Jewish encyclopedia; not specific to music
• Society of Composers
• Vox Novus; a collective of contemporary composers
• New music Wiki

Composer biographies by time period

• List of 21st century classical composers
• Komponisten der Gegenwart from Edition Text + Kritik
• Medieval Music & Arts Foundation composer pages
• Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical era composers

Women composers and musicians biographies     (See also: Lists of composers' works on the Web)

• By country: Czech || Dutch Foundation for Women in Music || Japan || New York
• Brass music of Women composers database
• Contributions of Jewish Women to music and of Women to Jewish music
• Early music women composers, from Ancient & Byzantine to Late baroque & early classical
  See also Women's early music chronolgy
• Early Women masters
• Hildegard Publishing Company a music publisher devoted to "promot[ing] and preserv[ing] the music of women composers of the past and present"
• Sigma Alpha Iota Composer Bureau; SAI is an international music fraternity for women in the United States. This web site includes information about American composers (and some Canadian), both female and male.
• Women composers database
• Women composers web index
• Women hymn composers before 1900
• Women of note
• Women's music

Performer biographies

• Historical tenors (requires free registration)
• Performer biographies from Thomas Moore

Birth and death indexes

• Dates of obscure musicians
• Anybirthday.com "relies on driver's license and voting registration for its information, with the hazards those sources entail"--Mark Scharff
• MLA's Obiturary Index
• Necrology from Gaylord Music Library, Washington University in St. Louis
• RootsWeb
• Social Security Death Index

Publishers' online catalogs

Edition 49 Accolade Musikverlag C. Alan Publications Band and percussion music emphasis Amadeus Amos Editio AVK (New Consonant Music) Ballerbach Bardic Edition Befoco-Verlag Billaudot Editions Bim BMIC (British Music Information Centre) Bnote Bodensee Boosey Carpe Diem Music Carus Verlag CeBeDeM M.J. Cerri Clivis Publicacions Ceskly Rozhlas Nakladatelstvi (Cezch Radio) Cimmaron Editions Combre Edizioni Curci Dacapo Records good for Danish composers and performers Edition Daminus Donemus ECS Pub. eNoty Estonian Music.com Edition Ex tempore Editions Daminus Dinsic Doblinger Edition Dohr Donemus Doberman-Yppan Durand-Eschig-Salabert pdf catalogs by medium of performance Canadian composers from Eighth Note Publications Durand-Eschig-Salabert pdf catalogs by medium of performance European American Music Distributors Corp.: European American, Helicon, Universal Edition Faber Music: contemporary composer | educational composers | film and TV composers FJH Music Frog Peak Music Theodore Front 20th-century composers in Front's approval plan Galaxy Goldberg Edições Musicais W.G. Haas W. Hansen Harrassowitz list of 20th and 21st centuries composers Heinrichshofen (composers listed in no apparent order) Edition HH Hildegard Publishing Company Hubert-Hoche-Musikverlag Edition Hoffmann (double bass literature; includes birth/death dates) HoneyRock (publisher of percussion music) International Opus Japan Federation of Composers Jobert Jomar Press Kallisti Music Press Kammermusik Verlag Kendor Music Keys Press Kompozitor Martin Krämer Musikverlag Laurentius-Musikverlag Leisure Planet Music H. Lemoine

Lothringer Lux Nova Press Edition Margaux Media Press Meredith Music Merseburger MMB Music Musica Baltica Editions Musicales européennes Muziekuitgeverij van Teeseling (Dutch) Verlag Neue Musik Notissimo Edition Nova Vita Robert Ostermeyer Musikedition Oxford University Press Productions d'Oz Peer Music J.W. Pepper Peters Phylloscopus Publications Piles Editorial Pizzicato T. Presser Productions d'Oz Promethean Editions PWM Red Frog Music Red House Editions Editions Marc Reift Edition Reimers Ricordi (German composers) Ricordi (Italian composers) Rosewood Publications Durand-Eschig-Salabert pdf catalogs by medium of performance Edition Samfundet Schirmer Schott Schweitzer Musikedition Seilkopf-Verlag Shawnee Press Sikorski Sloway Music Smith Publications Casa musicale Sonzogno SOUNZ Studio 4 Music Subito Music Tecla Edition Text + Kritik: Komponisten der Gegenwart Theophilius Transcontinental Music (publisher of Jewish music); scroll down to pull down menu in lower right column Tre Media Edition TrevCo Triangiel Music Publishers (Polish) Tritó Catalan composers Universal Edition Muziekuitgeverij Van Teeseling Edition Viento Verlag Vierdreiunddreissig Vogt & Fritz Vox Novus VP Music Media guitar music Warwick Music Wolfhead Music Yelton Rhodes Music United Music Publishers University of York Music Press Zentralbibliothek Zürich Kantons-, Stadt- und Universitäatsbibliothek

By country or geographic area
International Association of Music Information Centres: 43 member organisations in 38 countries
See also Geographic-specific sites from Indiana University and Classical music country index

• Composers working around the world from NewMusicWorks
• Classical composers archive: by country
• Dictionary of African composer
• Música Clásica Argentina || Compositores & Intérpretes
• Armenian composers
• Australian composers || Australasian Computer Music Association || Fellowship of Australian composers
• Music Information Center Austria || Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon Online || Osterreichischer Komponistenbund || Interessengemeinschaft Niederösterreichische Komponisten (Association of Composers of Lower Austria)
• Union of Azerbaijan composers
• CeBeDeM: Belgian Documentation Centre for Contemporary Music || Database of Flemish composers after 1950 || Dictionnaire des compositeurs de Belgique du moyen age à nos jours
• Brazil: Centro de Documentação de Música Contemporânea Note: alphabetical by composer's first name!
• British Music Page list of composers || British and Irish composers from Classical music on the web || British Music Society list of composers || North-West Composers Association || Central Composers' Alliance
• Union of Bulgarian composers || Index of contemporary Bulgarian composers
• Canadian Music Centre Directory of associate composers || Encyclopedia of music in Canada || Canadian League of Composers || Canadian compositions for trombone || Contemporary Canadian composers
• Associació Catalana de Compositors || Catálogo de compositores catalanes para guitarra, siglos XVI al XX
• Croatian Composers' Society (English version)
• Ceský hudební slovník osob a institucí || Czech Music Information Center || Czech composers
• Det virtuelle musikbibliothek (Online Music Research Library of Denmark) || Værkfortegnelser for danske komponister (Worklists for Danish composers) || Samfundet til udgivelse af Dansk musik (Society for the publication of Danish music): The composers) || Dansk Komponist Forening
• Composers from Estonia || Estonia: Estonian Music Information Centre || Estonian Composers Union
• Contemporary Finnish composers || Society of Finnish Composers || Finnish Music Information Centre
• French: selected contemporary composers || CDMC || Le grand répertoire compositeurs et formations || Musica et memoria
• Germany
  • Deutsches Komponistenarchiv
  • Deutscher Komponistenverband
  • Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum
  • Komponisten der Gegenwart
  • Künstler im Kultur-Netz
  • Komponisten aus Baden und Württemberg
  • Bayerische Musiker Lexikon Online
  • Thüringer Komponisten & Bearbeiter
• Greek Composers' Union
• Contemporary Hungarian composer || Hungarian composers || Kortárs magyar zeneszerzok kincsestára (Treasury of contemporary Hungarian composers)
• Contemporary Icelandic composers in Icelandic
• Contemporary Irish composers, predominantly contemporary || British and Irish composers from Classical music on the web
• Israel Music Institute composers || Israel composers' league
• Banca Dati dei compositori Italiani || Federazione CEMAT (electroacoustic and computer music)
• Music from Japan: composer index
• Composer catalog of the Latin American Music Center (Catholic University); list of works only; under "renovation," 2005 || Latin American composers (large file) from the Latin American Music Center, Indiana University || Database of Latin American guitar music || Catálogo de obras para saxofón de compositores de América Latina
• Music in Latvia, includes about 25 contemporary composers || Latvian Composers Union (Latvian version)
• Lithuanian composers || Klaipedos apskrities I. Simonaitytes viesoji biblioteka
• Macedonian composers, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists
• Mexican composers from Mikrokosmos
• New Zealand composers from the Centre for New Zealand Music || Australasian Computer Music Association
• Nordik composers
• Composers working in North and Central America
• Norwegian composers
• Polish composers, from USC || Polish composers from Middle Ages to Baroque
• Portuguese composers
• Romanian music information center
• Illiustrirovannyi biograficheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar' gitaristi i kompository (illustrated biographical encyclopedic dictionary of guitarists and composers (in Russian (Cyrillic)) || Two centuries of Russian composers (see also Soviet composers) || Russiches Musikarchiv
• Scottish Music Centre
• Hudobné Centrum Slovakia || Composers from Slovakia from the Music Information Centre of the Music Fund
• Society of Slovene composers
• South Africans
• Composers working in South America
• Soviet composers (see also Russian composers) || A bibliography of trumpet concertos from the former Soviet Union
• Catalogo de compositores iberoamericanos (Spain) || Archivo de Música Española Contemporánea || Important Spanish composers of the twentieth century
• Society of Swedish composers || Classical Music Center Sweden || Swedish composers, primarily contemporary from the Swedish Music Information Center || Svenskt biografiskt handlexiko (not music specific; digital version of the 1906 ed.) || Composer archives and special collections in the Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music || Swedish music by medium of performance (under Besättningskatalog) || Musik-Lexikon scanned from the ed. published: Tryckt hos J. & A. Riis, 1864.
• Schweizer Musikedition (Swiss Music Edition) || Répertoire international des sources musicales: Schweiz || musinfo banca dati sulla musica in Svizzera
• Music Information Center (Ukraine)
• United States:
  • general:
    • Compos American Composers Alliance
    • American Music Center individual members
    • Composers bureau from Sigma Alpha Iota
    • National Association of Composers/USA: composer list (with work lists) || links to members' homepages
    • The National Association of Composers, USA
  • By state or city:
    • Baltimore Composers' Forum (this site is "temporarily unavailable" May 2008
    • Cleveland Composers Guild
    • Connecticut Composers, Inc.
    • Iowa composers forum
    • Maine Composers' Forum
    • Composers Guild of New Jersey
    • New York Women composers
    • Oregon composers
    • Southeastern Composers League
    • Wisconsin Alliance for composers || Wisconsin music archives list of Wisconsin composers

Big band music:	composers
Brass music:	Brass music of Women composers database
Cello	see Violoncello
Church music:	Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (not music-specific)
Clarinet:	Clarinet compositions by composer
Flute:	Contemporary composers of flute music
Guitar:	Boije Collection in the Music Library of Sweden Catálogo de compositores catalanes para guitarra, siglos XVI al XX Classical guitar composers list - alphabetical Classical guitar web portal Contemporary guitar composers Database of Latin American guitar music Database of XXth century Italian guitar music Dirks guitar page Encyclopedia of the guitar Max Eschig guitar catalog, pdf Guitar composers of the classical and early romantic period, circa 1780-1900 The guitar in Italy in the nineteenth century, sixty biographies of Italian composers and guitarists (pdf) Illiustrirovannyi biograficheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar' gitaristi i kompository (illustrated biographical encyclopedic dictionary of guitarists and composers (in Russian (Cyrillic)) International Guitar Research Archive database of works giving titles on early editions Italian composers and guitarists of the nineteenth century (pdf) Italian guitarists 1860-1960 (pdf) Master list of classical guitar composers arranged by nationality Rincón del guitarrista: Lista de compositores Seicorde.it Select list of works written in the last 25 years for guitar held at the Australian Music Centre library Sheer pluck World guitarist
Mandolin:	Werkverzeichnis Mandoline from Musik & MusikerInnen
Motets:	The motet database catalogue online (indexes manuscripts and printed anthologies produced between 1475 and 1600; works with Latin texts only)
Opera:	Opera composers Fan d'opéra; in process, biographies current from A-Bz
Organ:	Biographical dictionary of organists, composers for organ and organ builders Composers for the organ Liste von Organisten (from German Wikipedia)
Piano:	Pianopedia: includes 894 composers, 5471 works (indicating 15748 movements or excerpts)
Recorder:	Composers for recorder on the Web
Saxophone:	Listes des compositeurs et leurs oeuvres || Catálogo de obras para saxofón de compositores de América Latina
Plucked instrument ensembles:	Komponistinnenverzeichnis Zupforchester from Musik & MusikerInnen
Song:	Index of composers of Lieder and art songs
Trombone:	Canadian compositions for trombone
Violoncello	A catalogue of twentieth-century cello ensemble music (pdf)

Print resources

• Print sources for composer biographies held at Yale
• Reference sources for use in cataloging sheet music from Duke University: Composers and musicians || Performers

Comments to Mickey Koth Yale University Music Library
©Yale University Library Last revised May 13, 2008.