Music History 

Judy Tsou info jstsou@u.washington.edu

Verletta Kern vkern@u.washington.edu

John Gibbs (info) gibbs@u.washington.edu

Jackie Belanger jbelanger@uwb.edu

Justin Wadland jwadland@u.washington.edu

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Welcome to the University of Washington Music Library's Music History Page.  Here you will find links to many sites that we have found useful.  Subjects covered are: Databases and Indexes, Iconography, Images, Codicology and Manuscript Studies, Research Centers, Societies, Journals, Work Lists, Bibliographies, Sites of General Interest and Sites by Musical Stylistic Periods.

Middle Ages and Antiquity

• Teaching the Middle Ages in the 21st Century Arthur Samplaski on NPR Morning Edition
• A short bibliography of Early Music
• "Origin of Music" Site
• Solesmes Abbey
• Guido of Arezzo (Guido Aretinus)
• Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae
• Ancient Roman Music
• Ancient Greek Music
• Homeric Singing - An Approach to the Original Performance
• Music from the Vatican Exhibit at L.C.
• Medieval Music
• The Gregorian Chant Home Page
• The Cantigas de Santa Maria
• A Memento: The Medieval Recorder
• Introduction to Medieval Music
• Medieval Women and Music
• Adam de la Halle: Jeu de Robin et Marion
• Study Guide for Medieval Love Songs
• Mittelalter / Geistliche Kultur Mittelalter / Bürger & Bauern
• The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant & Hymnody

Renaissance

• Acadia Early Music Facsimile Archive
• Dowland Ms. Project
• ECOLM: Electronic Corpus of Lute Music
• Database of vocal music of the "French" Renaissance
• Copenhagen Chansonnier
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
• Ricercares a quattro voci by Vincenzo Galilei, 1584
• English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630 Julia Craig-McFeely
• Renaissance Masses: 1440-1520
• Motet Online Database
• C.M.M.E.Project computerized mensural music editing
• Caron website
• Playford: Dancing Master
• Playford, The Dancing Master
• Sixteenth Century Ballads: A work in progress...
• Guide to Early Instruments
• Dulcian
• Racketts
• Rebec
• Serpent Website

Baroque

• Academy of Ancient Music
• Bach Musicological Font
• Lully Project-University of North Texas
• The Ap Huw Mss.
• Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Music
• Mvsica Tolta da i Madrigali contrafacta
• J.S. Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentary Z. Philip Ambrose

Classical

• Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Music
• Shaw and the Don: George Bernard Shaw's Reception of Mozart's Don Giovanni Gareth Cox
• Mozart's Musical Diary Turn the pages of Mozart's Thematic Catalogue
• Das Digitale Beethoven-Haus

Romantic

• Boije Collection of 19th Century guitar music
• Romantic (Period) Music
• Brahms at the Piano
• Putting the Dance Back Into Mazurka Bernard D. Sherman

20th Century

• Futurism

Americana

• American Memory
• American Mavericks
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music - Lib. of Congress
• Sheet Music: A Window on 19th-Century California
• Historic American Sheet Music-Duke University
• Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Colection-Johns Hopkins
• Public Domain Music Civil War Music, Foster, Root, Work, Jacobs-Bond, et al
• 19th Century Color Lithographic Sheet Music Covers-Brown University
• 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization -UNC, Chapel Hill
• Mission Music
• Dictionary of American Hymnology

Other Sites for Research in Historical Musicology

• The Rosaleen Moldenhauer memorial : music history from primary sources : a guide to the Moldenhauer Archives
• International Hispanic Music Study Group
• Music under Soviet Rule
• The Symphony-an interactive guide