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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, March 31, 2023, hosted by…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: for instructor use
  • Century: multiple centuries

“This open source searchable database is intended to provide its…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad, gen-ed
  • Century: multiple centuries

Short videos featuring early instrument demonstrations by Piffaro, a Renaissance…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Article: “Thirteen years later and well after Anna Magdalena’s official…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

Short podcast (7 min) and transcript about music and the…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Edited collection: “The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity…

  • Audience: undergrad + grad

A variety of music-related podcasts: Hearing the Pulitzers; Aria Code;…

  • Audience: general

Short explainer article about the differences between the four main…

  • Audience: any undergrad

“It took seven years for Wang Runqing to get his…

  • Geographic Area: Asia
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Performance Archive Database for San Francisco Opera. Browse or search…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Article Abstract: “The repeated use of the ‘Goldberg’ Variations in…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Institute publishes articles on Bach…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad, major
  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

Blog: “Debunking myths and calling out lazy writing in published…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

“Featuring posts on music of the following Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese,…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Video essay: “From 1925-30, British music educator Percy A. Scholes…

  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Video essay by Tantacrul: “In this video I explore how…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Book: “Few developments in the industrial era have had a…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Video: “Les Paul demonstrates the handy playback system that allows…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Database with a project goal to realize “a comprehensive, authoritative…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Video: “With music as with words the task of the…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1500-1599 (16thC)

Video: “A demonstration by Andrew Stein Raftery, Associate Professor of…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general

Video: “A traditional craft demonstrated by G. Henle Publishers. This…

  • Audience: general

Text of a presentation titled “Queer Musical Orientalism” for the…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

2014 article in The Guardian: “Beyoncé Accused of Sampling Roma…

  • Audience: general
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Blog post in Musicology Now summarizing research on “Handel’s investment…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

“Musical Women in England, 1870-1914 delineates the roles women played…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1800-1899 (19thC)

Accessible video essay that draws on interdisciplinary scholarship to talk…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

“Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Excerpts from the 33 1/3 series, magazines, books and blogs…

  • Audience: general

Short opinion article by Diep Tran for American Theatre: “It’s…

  • Audience: general

“With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“Nota Bene is a journal of musicology developed by the…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“This is an anthology of a different kind and at…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

The Black Opera Research Network “wishes to serve as a…

  • Audience: undergrad + grad

Open Access Musicology is a “peer-reviewed, open-access, online, modular catalogue…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Podcast: “Conversations with scholars about music.” Episodes run for approximately…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Animated graphic scores (music animation machine). Extensive catalog rooted in…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Engaging four-minute video essay about the physics of sound. Description…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

“The Josquin Research Project (JRP) changes what it means to…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1500-1599 (16thC)

“The Crash Course team has produced more than 32 courses…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“The Early Music Theory website was founded by Ronald Woodley…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Century: 1400-1499 (15thC)

“The Cantigas de Santa Maria database is designed to give…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Century: 1200-1299 (13thC)

Introduction to Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque instruments. Pages for individual…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

“Cantus is a database of the Latin chants found in…

  • Geographic Area: Europe

“This archive contains critical editions of seventeenth-century Italian madrigals and…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1600-1699 (17thC)

Library of Congress Digital Collections includes more than 60 music-related…

  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“Tunes, lyrics, recordings, sheet music–all are components of popular songs,…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Short documentary by Stephen Fry about the Tristan Chord; for…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1800-1899 (19thC)

“The LiederNet Archive is the world’s largest reference archive of…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Century: multiple centuries

“The musicologist Mylène Pardoen has recreated the background sound environment…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

“Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“This [online] course covers the basics of the [14th c…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1300-1399 (14thC)

“Dedicated to the idea that music commentary and criticism can…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Audio guides for books by Alex Ross including Wagnerism, Listen…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Database of online music resources, sorted by category (“General”, “Band/Wind…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

“The “Music in New Jersey” website explores the wide diversity…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

“This journal is published by students in the University of…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Bibliography, assignment, and lesson plan suggestions for teaching the Harlem…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: undergrad, gen-ed
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

The mission of the Journal of Undergraduate Research in Music…

  • Audience: undergrad, major