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Polona, the Digital Library of Poland, Now in English
Polona, the digital library administered by the National Library of Poland, has published its 2 millionth work and has just released an interface in English. (Look at the bottom of the page for a link to the English version.) Polona includes treasures of Polish culture from the National Library and...
26 October 2017
Cantum Pulcriorem Invenire
The RISM online catalog has only a few pieces that dip into the Medieval period, but some of our users might be interested in the Cantum Pulcriorem Invenire (CPI-I) database of 12th- and 13th-century conductus, from the University of Southampton. CPI-I focuses on the poetry of this kind of song....
6 February 2017
The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music
The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (WLSCM) is a project sponsored by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. It is a free collection of peer-reviewed, scholarly publications of seventeenth-century compositions that are not commercially available in print and have not been posted online. A separate series, Monuments of Seventeenth-Century Music, is...
6 June 2016
Digitized Irish Music Project
The following was originally published by the Research Foundation for Music in Ireland and is reprinted here with kind permission: The library of the DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama has a specialised collection of the music composed in Ireland, about Ireland and by Irish composers which has developed through...
23 May 2016
The Manuscript Tradition of Orlando di Lasso's Works
Orlando di Lasso (ca. 1532 -1594) is one of the most important musicians of the sixteenth century. A prolific composer, his works were published a lot even during his lifetime. These editions, numbering over 470 between 1555 and 1687, have long been known to musicologists. But are there also any...
18 April 2016
The English Broadside Ballad Archive
In its heyday, broadside ballads were everywhere in England. In the seventeenth century, these sheets, which were commonly printed with a woodcut illustration and printed in heavy black-letter type (what we call Gothic today), were highly visible - posted at the alehouse or hawked on the streets - and audible...
11 April 2016
Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae: Critical Editions of Ottoman Manuscripts
A new project has started that aims to prepare critical editions of important Ottoman music manuscripts from the nineteenth century. The project Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) began in October 2015 and their website was launched this March. The project is based in Münster, Bonn, and Istanbul with partners at the...
4 April 2016
Digitized Music from Christ Church Library
Efforts are currently underway to digitize music holdings from Christ Church Library, University of Oxford (GB-Och). This is part of a larger joint effort between Christ Church Library and the Bodleian Library (GB-Ob) to digitize important Western, Byzantine, music, Hebrew, and Arabic manuscripts and early printed books. The collection is...
24 March 2016
Jane Austen's Music Collection Now Online
“When that business was over, he applied to Miss Bingley and Elizabeth for an indulgence of some music. Miss Bingley moved with some alacrity to the pianoforte; and, after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself....
21 March 2016
Announcing the Bohemian Watermark Database
The following has reached us from Eliška Šedivá (National Library, Prague): The Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic presents the Bohemian Watermark Database, which continuously grows during the course of cataloguing and reviewing the musical sources registered in the Union Music Catalogue of the NLCR by...
22 February 2016
