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• Biography
• Composer's Sites
• Death Dates of Composers and Other Musicians
• Dissertations
• Gregorian Chant
• World Music
• WWW Ready Reference Resources

Biography

World Biographical Index

Composer's Sites

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies San Jose State University (http://www.music.sjsu.edu/Beethoven/index/caption.html)

The Center is the only institution in North America devoted solely to the life, works, and accomplishments of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Established in 1983, the Center officially opened at San Jose State University in September 1985 with a gala co-sponsored by the San Jose Symphony. The Center now has the largest collection of Beethoven materials outside of Europe. In addition to functioning as a research library, the Center is involved in a variety of educational programs and projects and sponsors concerts, lectures, tours, and other programs.  Important publications and projects of the Center include The Beethoven Bibliography Database and The Beethoven Journal.

The Life and Works of Hildegard von Bingen (http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/~kris/music/Hildegard.html)

Compiled by Kristina Lerman, contains a biography, discussion of works, bibliography, discography, glossary, and web resources.

Hildegard of Bingen page (http://sunsite.unc.edu/cheryb/women/hildegard.html)

This page gives a brief biography and brief discussion of the types of works created by Hildegard.

Death Dates of Composers and Other Musicians

Obituary Index (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/music/mla/necrology/welcome.html -- Music Library Association)

This is an on-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes. The index facilitates access to information about musicians and other members of the music world. Obituary citations are compiled from a wide range of sources; selection criteria have varied by editor. Entries from the 1966 through 1995 issues of NOTES are now grouped into one database that can be searched by keywords. Entries containing keywords are returned to the user. Journal and dictionary abbreviations in individual entries are linked to names in full lists of journals and music dictionaries.

Gaylord Music Library Necrology (http://library.wustl.edu/~music/necro/ -- Washington University in St. Louis)

The Gaylord Music Library Necrology file first began as a card file in the mid-1980s. In 1991, the project moved to a word processing file and in 1995, became available as a web page. The goal is to report what appears in the music media as it arrives in this library. This includes the Obituary Index that appears annually in Music Library Association Notes.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/)

For more than forty years, the American Musicological Society has sponsored the publication of listings of dissertations in the field of musicology, and over the years Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology grew from a small pamphlet to a substantial book of more than 500 pages, augmented by periodic supplements. The establishment of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (DDM-Online), an electronic version of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, marks a new phase in the life of this publication. Development of the site will proceed in stages. A new DDM office has been established at the School of Music at Indiana University, and the card on which dissertation topics or completed dissertations have been reported in the past has now been redesigned. Since mid-1996, the current DDM office has been receiving records for new dissertations-in-progress and completed dissertations, and in this first stage of development, DDM-Online now presents all these records, arranged under several broad categories.  DDM-Online complements the volumes of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology found in the Reference Room of the Music Library (7th edition, Ref ML128 M98 D6 1984, and cumulation for Feb.1984-April 1995, Ref. ML128 M98 D61 1984-1995).

Music Theory Online Dissertation Index (http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/docs/diss-index.html)

Dissertation Abstracts International (via FirstSearch)

Available from the Research Workstation - Databases page.  PhD. dissertations from American and Canadian Universities from 1861 to the present.

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Gregorian Chant

Gregorian Chant Home Page (http://www.music.princeton.edu:80/chant_html/)

The main purpose of the Gregorian Chant Home Page is to support advanced research on Gregorian chant, particularly in the graduate seminar "Problems in Early Christian Music" (Music 511) taught at Princeton. The scholarly study of Gregorian chant is a wide-ranging, multi-faceted venture that interacts with many other areas of study, just as the liturgy for which it was created influenced many other areas of individual and social life.

 

 
 
 

The page also links to other Gregorian Chant sites on the WWW.

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World Music

Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music (http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html -- University of Washington Music Library)

An extensive list of organizations, bibliography, recordings, and sites by geographic region.

Non-Western Musical Traditions: General Sources (http://gpu2.srv.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/music/mandj.htm#ethnogen -- University of Alberta)

Links to the World Music Home Page and has a list of Ethnic Music by Geographic Region.

WWW Ready Reference Resources

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