History of Music

A Big Data History of Music

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, library, manuscripts, music sheets, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, twentieth century

British Library dataset of printed music, freely available for download and analysis, as a result of the data cleaning undertaken in this project.

Data type: text

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Irish Song Project

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, Ireland, Middle Ages, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, songs

This is e a digital catalogue of 230 songs from the medieval period to the early nineteenth century, categorised according to generic type, musical incipit and other features and thus permitting for the first time comparison of songs distant in time but linked across history by melody, form or audience. Facsimile images of manuscript and early printed editions are provided, as also modern musical annotation and commentaries on each song.

Data type: audio, images, text

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PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources

History of Music, Music | Europe, fifteenth century, sixteenth century, typography

metadata resource containing mise-en-page information on all extant manuscripts (c.300) and editions (c.80) of Western polyphony from c.1480 to c.1530

Data type: text

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music sheets, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes, violin

Details of over 200 Scottish printed sources of vernacular violin music from before 1850, along with images and indexes of 22 books from the University of Glasgow and Perth’s A K Bell Library. You can browse the collection, search for tunes and composers, and play the tunes.

Data type: images

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Data underpinning ‘A map of the pibroch landscape, 1760–1841’

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes

This database includes bibliographical and summary details of over 200 printed sources of Scottish fiddle music from before 1850. Most of the sources are substantial printed collections, but the database also includes some of the hundreds of surviving single-sheet publications. 22 sources have been digitised and indexed complete.

Data type: text

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes, violin

a comprehensive catalogue of 27 Scottish manuscript sources of violin music from before 1750, with around 3500 tunes all searchable by name, Theme Code and other features.

Data type: text

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A Big Data History of Music

Irish Song Project

PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources

The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

Data underpinning ‘A map of the pibroch landscape, 1760–1841’

The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

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