{"id":704,"date":"2010-12-01T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=704"},"modified":"2010-12-15T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T21:05:26","slug":"restructured-and-renewed-online-resources-for-music-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2010\/12\/01\/restructured-and-renewed-online-resources-for-music-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Restructured and Renewed: Online Resources for Music Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Online Resources for Music Scholars<\/em><\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce a major revision to the Music Library’s largest and oldest research guide, Online Resources for Music Scholars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Online Resources for Music Scholars<\/a> provides a basis for beginning electronic research on a wide variety of topics in music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice. It collects links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; musical reference works; and a miscellany of useful websites.<\/p>\n

This redesign moves the guide from a flat, hierarchical listing of links to a tagged, searchable database. Every link is annotated and assigned tags indicating both the subject<\/a> (e.g. ethnomusicology<\/a>, manuscripts<\/a>, Aaron Copland<\/a>, popular music<\/a>) and resource type<\/a> (e.g. digital score<\/a>, discography<\/a>, image collection<\/a>, streaming audio<\/a>). The new version reflects that different people organize information in different ways: one person may want to see a list of sites with online scores; another may want to see everything related to Bach; another may want links to sites about music theory; another may be looking for sites devoted to music in Africa. We hope the guide’s renaissance makes it a better, easier to use resource for researchers with varied goals and levels of musical experience.<\/p>\n

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Tag Cloud, Online Resources for Music Scholars<\/em><\/p>\n

Online Resources for Music Scholars<\/a> has been online since (at least) the mid-1990s: our oldest archived version dates to 1999. Site statistics regularly place various sections in the top 10-20 most frequently-used research guides on the Harvard College Library<\/a> website. When it was created, it was reasonable for one library to attempt to describe the entire universe of scholarly resources in music on one webpage, and to do so in a hierarchical, rigidly organized way that replicated the experience of browsing a physical bookshelf.<\/p>\n

The internet doesn’t work like that anymore.<\/p>\n

With the proliferation of digital collections, online multimedia, and web resources of all kinds, one eresource quite commonly includes many kinds of information: digitized scores, recordings, correspondence, and images; reference sources like thematic catalogs; performance histories and biographical information; bibliographies, discographies, and library catalogs. The website of the Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg Center<\/a>, for example, is not just a source for information about the world’s premier Schoenberg archive; it also includes hundreds of manuscript facsimiles, streaming recordings, and other research materials.<\/p>\n

We recognize that Online Resources for Music Scholars<\/a> is a work in progress, and we very much appreciate your comments and suggestions.<\/p>\n

– Kerry Masteller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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