Research Guides: MUSI 022: Nineteenth-Century European Music (SC): Finding Recordings & Scores

Recordings

Naxos Music Library
A huge streaming audio collection of classical music with many opera recordings. PDFs of Librettos with English translations are often available. Additionally, Naxos works well on mobile devices.
medici.tv
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Streaming video of concerts from all over the world.
Opera in Video
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Streaming videos of important opera performances, captured through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. BRYN MAWR has the majority but not all videos in this collection.

Printed scores of all works studied in this class are available in Underhill Library. For online scores try:

IMSLP (International Music Scores Library Project)
The International Music Score Library Project, also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a huge collection of public-domain music scores
Wikipedia List of Online Digital Musical Document Libraries
Includes an extensive listing of digital score archives and projects from libraries and special collecitons around the world.

TriCollege Libraries Catalog
Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, scores, recordings, dissertations, journals and other material owned by Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to your library.
WorldCat
This is a gigantic catalog of millions of materials owned by libraries all over the world describing books, essays, scores, videos, sound recordings, websites, and manuscript collections. If you find something in WorldCat not owned by the Tri-Colleges we can probably get it for you.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
The premier index for researching in music, describing books, essays, journal articles, dissertations, documentaries, conference proceedings, bibliographies, discographies, concert reviews, recording notes. Most citations include abstracts.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses Full Text
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is a collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences that consists of 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, and 1.2 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Coverage is from 1861 to the present day.