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Morgan Library & Museum — Music Manuscripts
Exceptional autograph scores, letters and printed music by major composers.
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VISIT RESOURCE ↗Documents, essays, biographies, historical sources and reference materials
The Library is the documentary archive of Classical Archive, bringing together biographies, essays, historical documents, analytical studies, booklets and selected reference materials devoted to classical music.
A curated directory of archives, libraries, foundations, museums, institutions and scholarly reference projects.
The complete Classical Archive curated reference directory.
277 resources01National libraries, digital repositories and global catalogues for books, scores, manuscripts and archival sources.
54 resources02Digitized scores, autograph manuscripts, critical editions and source databases.
35 resources03Museums, foundations, research centres and digital archives devoted to major composers.
71 resources04Archives and institutional collections devoted to conductors, soloists and major performers.
17 resources05Historical archives and institutional resources documenting opera houses, orchestras and festivals.
27 resources06Digitized recordings, discographies, broadcast archives and sound-preservation resources.
16 resources07Bibliographies, journals, scholarly societies, reference databases and research infrastructures.
21 resources08Museum collections of historic instruments and material culture related to music.
20 resourcesExceptional autograph scores, letters and printed music by major composers.
Machine-readable symbolic scores for computational musicology and analysis.
Scholarly society producing critical editions of Henry Purcell’s music and related source research.
Critical complete edition of Schubert’s works with scholarly editorial and source information.
Scholarly complete edition project for Brahms, documenting sources, variants and editorial research.
Critical and scholarly publishing resources for Liszt’s works and editions.
Digital research environment for the music of Josquin and his contemporaries, with scores, analysis and attribution tools.
Digital corpus and analytical platform for Renaissance polyphony and intertextual relationships.
Digital editions and tools for mensural music, supporting study of medieval and Renaissance polyphony.
Digital edition and research project tracing musical settings of Torquato Tasso’s poetry.
Digital scholarly editions of sixteenth-century French chansons from the Du Chemin repertory.