Music Archives, Associations, Centers, Institutes, and Societies
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The American Composers Alliance
The American Music Network (Society for American Music - aka Sonneck Society)
AMS (American Musicological Society)
Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana)
Collections include audio and video recordings, photographs, original scores, and oral histories, among other artifacts and ephemera related to popular, religious, and art musics, and Black radio. The archives conducts collaborative resarch with such units as the Afro-American Arts Institue and the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, the Smithsonian Institution and the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
Bach-Archiv Leipzig
The Batish Institute of Indian Music and Fine Arts
The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
The Center is the only institution in North America devoted solely to the life, works, and accomplishments of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Established in 1983, the Center officially opened at San Jose State University in September 1985. The Center now has the largest collection of Beethoven materials outside of Europe. Connect to The Beethoven Biblioagraphy Database.
Center for Black Music Research
"The Center for Black Music Research distinguishes operationally between “African-American music” and “black music.” In the CBMR’s lexicon, African-American music emanates directly from the black experience in the United States, descended from the calls, cries, hollers, spirituals, ragtime, and blues of the slavery and post-slavery periods; it includes jazz, R&B, black gospel, and all the forms to which these genres have given birth. Black music, on the other hand, is any music composed or performed by people of African descent, including African-American music, African music, and European and European-derived concert-hall music by black composers."
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
The Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool.
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (Berkeley)
Center for Popular Music
The Center for Popular Music was established in 1985 as one of the sixteen Centers of Excellence based at Tennessee Board of Regents universities. Its mission is to promote research and scholarship in American vernacular music, and to foster an understanding and appreciation of American's diverse musical culture.
College Music Society
Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv
Electronic Music Foundation
Film Music Society Home Page
Information Structures in Music, Karlsruhe University
The research project "Information Structures in Music" deals with the modeling of musical structure with methods used in computer science. Two different approaches are considered: a rule-based approach using generative grammars and a learn-based approach using neural networks to learn musical structure and style from musical examples.
Institute of Mediaeval Music (Ottawa)
International Association of Music Libraries
International Musicological Society
International Musicological Society 16th International Congress (London, 14-20 August, 1997): Musicology and Sister Disciplines: Past, Present and Future Announcement
Janacek Archive and Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
Medieval Institute (Kalamazoo)
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
The MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music is a national center devoted to the study and promotion of contemporary music within the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University. In recognition of its diverse activities, the Center was awarded the 1992 Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming.
Music Library Association
Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information
This site is dedicated to research in the computational modeling of temporal structure in musical knowledge and music cognition. It describes the research, and contains papers with sound examples, Quicktime animations, and other material.
Polish Music Reference Center
This is a unique and important center research and resource on music of Polish origin consisting of more than 10,000 titles (books, scores, recordings, articles and journals) on Polish classical, folk and jazz music.
Riemenschneider Bach Institute
Schubert Institute (UK)
Clara Schumann 1819-1896/1996
The challenge of the Clara '96 campaign and the purpose of the Clara Schumann Society is to stimulate the performance of the music of Clara Schumann during the auspicious year 1996.
SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology Musicology)
SMT (Society for Music Theory)
Sousa Archives for Band Research
The Sousa Archives for Band Research (SABRE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) was organized in 1994 with the transfer of the John Philip Sousa, Herbert L. Clarke, and related collections from University Bands to the UIUC Library. The collections of John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945), former directors of band at UIUC Albert Austin Harding (1880-1958), Mark H. Hindsley (b. 1905), Harry Begian (b. 1921), and UIUC alumnus and Sousa Band member Richard E. Kent (1899-1996) comprise the principle components of SABRE.
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) was formed by the amalgamation, in 1932, of the Folk Song Society, founded in 1898 and the English Folk Dance Society formed by Cecil Sharp in 1911.
Kurt Weill Foundation
As a combination library, manuscript repository, and media center, the Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya Research Center acquires original documents and recordings as well as reproductions of materials held in public or private collections worldwide.