Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Music
This page, edited by Jack Lynch, is part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net.
Music
Eighteenth-century music is surprisingly sparse -- most music resources on the Web are either general or commercial, devoted to hawking CDs. The following are worth a browse:
- General:
- Music Resources on the Internet -- Meta-index of resources on classical music and jazz on the Internet.
- Classical Music -- Classical Net Home Page -- Includes discussions of the basic repertoire, almost 2,000 recommended CDs, reviews, information on composers, and links.
- Composers Page (Joshua B. Lilly) -- Fledgling page with big plans to include biographical and critical information -- not scholarly, but still useful -- on hundreds of composers, including Arne, the Bach family, Beethoven, Haendel, Haydn, Mozart, Haendel, Rameau, Tromlitz, and others. Most pages are still blank, but more are promised.
- The Lied and Art Song Texts Page -- An extensive collection of texts (in original languages and sometimes English translations) of lieder and other songs by almost 700 composers and 1500 poets. Not limited to the 18th c., but it's well served. Very impressive.
- Forthcoming Conferences in Music (UK) -- Calls for papers and other information on conferences.
- Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (Harvard) -- Mostly information on the Society, but with some useful links, including one to Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.
- Composers (Michael Norrish, Cambridge) -- Very brief and informal biographical sketches, with links to Web resources.
- Fasola Home Page -- "Information Resources for Sacred Harp and Other American Shape Note Traditions."
- Gallery Music -- "For people who research and enjoy the music sung by church and chapel bands in the 1700s and early 1800s."
- Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America (Lesley Nelson) -- A superb collection of resources on folk music from the sixteenth century to the present, including texts, MIDI transcriptions of the music, some historical commentary, and links.
- Musical Improvisation in the Eighteenth Century (Martin Maner, Wright State Univ.) -- A guide to improvisation, including scores and MIDI files. Very informative; requires some musical knowledge, but nothing very abstruse.
- Opera:
- Scores and MIDI files:
- Postscript-encoded scores for pieces by Bach and Mozart (Germany)
- Classical MIDI Files (Midiworld) -- includes Bach, Haydn, Hændel, Mozart, and Scarlatti
- Mac-compatible MIDI files of Bach (UCSD)
- J. S. Bach:
- J. S. Bach Home Page (Jan Hanford and Jan Koster) -- A first-rate overview of Bach's life and work, with a catalogue of compositions (indexed by by BWV number, category, title, year, key, instrument, &c.), portraits, recommended recordings, and links to other sites.
- Bach Central Station: A Directory of J. S. Bach Resources on the Internet -- Another fine meta-page of Bach resources, with informationon biography, recordings, performances and performers, scores, and more.
- Newsgroup alt.music.j-s-bach -- Unmoderated discussion group.
- J. S. Bach: Analysis of Canons & Fugues (Timothy Smith, Northern Arizona Univ.) -- Extensive commentary and analysis on the canons and fugures, including selections from scores and audio clips. Very scholarly.
- Alexandre H. Hohmann's Bach Page (Geocities) -- Extensive site, more adulatory than scholarly, featureing biography, images, docments (including letters), texts of cantatas, &c. Requires frames. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
- Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (Wolfgang Schmieder, Chicago) -- The complete BWV catalogue in Filemaker and Acrobat format.
- Bach Plucked! (Canberra, Australia) -- "Devoted to the playing of Bach and his contemporaries on the lute and guitar." Includes reviews of recordings and some MIDI files, along with links to other Bach sites. Requires frames.
- Ludwig van Beethoven:
- Beethoven Pages (Johan Alkerstedt, Sweden) -- Brief biography, with short discussions of some of the major works.
- Beethoven Bibliography Database (San Jose State Univ.) -- An index of over 2,500 books and scores.
- The Beethoven Experience (Geocities) -- Biography, sound clips, and information on the works. Requires frames. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
- Handel:
- Alexandre H. Hohmann's Handel Page (Geocities) -- Extensive site, more adulatory than scholarly, featureing biography, images, docments (including letters), &c. Requires frames. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
- Mozart:
- Mozart Project (Steve Boerner) -- Extensive and well-designed site, including a biography (incomplete), information on compositions (by Köchel number), short essays, and links to other sites.
- The W. A. Mozart Page (MHRCC.org) -- Links to other Mozart resources on the Web; categories include biography, works, reviews, movies, other sites, T-shirts, and other classical music sites.
- Austria Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria) -- Chatty biography, along with the Köchel catalogue, arranged chronologically, in German.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Matt Boynick, Germany) -- Extensive outline of Mozart's works, though only a few are filled in. Gives information (date, orchestration, key, dedication, location of autograph score) and audio clips.
- Alexandre H. Hohmann's Mozart Page -- Extensive site, more adulatory than scholarly, featureing biography, images, docments (including letters), &c. Requires frames.
- Le Nozze di Figaro (Matthew Ross Davis, Virginia Tech) -- Audio guide. Down? The link from the home page goes nowhere.
- Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center -- Information on the festival, with little scholarly content.
- The Mozart Experience (Geocities) -- Brief biography, portraits (JPEGs), the Köchel catalogue; notes on and synopses of the operas, and QuickTime recordings of many of the works. Requires frames. Irritatingly commercial, as is typical of Geocities.
- Mozart Society of America -- Brief information on the Society, with a few links.
- The Mozart Page (Midiworld) -- MIDI files of Mozart's music.
- Libretti:
- Johann George Tromlitz:
- Selected Commercial Sites: