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2007



2006

New Mozart Edition Online
Starting on December 12, 2006 the ISM and the Packard Humanities Institute will make the complete musical texts of the NMA available to everyone for private, scholarly, and educational use as NMA Online. Free access will be provided on the Internet at http://dme.mozarteum.at/. The music pages are linked with the scans of the NMA’s critical reports. Comprehensive search capabilities allow users to easily find, study, and print any of Mozart’s works as PDF files. The NMA Online is the first extensive, up-to-date complete works edition that is available to everybody at no charge.

Polyphonic.org - The Orchestra Musician Forum
Funded by a gift of from the Symphony Orchestra Institute (founded in 1994 by Paul R. Judy), the Eastman School of Music has established the Orchestra Musician Forum, a new website for orchestral musicians.  It’s the first site of its kind – offering critical professional development resources for today’s orchestra musician. Click around to check out innovative articles, streaming video interviews, profiles of notable orchestras, and daily newsfeeds from ArtsJournal.com.


2005

Stephen Foster's Sketchbook
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=sketchbook
University of Pittsburgh Digital Research Library
"The Digital Research Library released an image collection containing the page images of Stephen Foster's Sketchbook, which contains draft texts for sixty-four songs including several of his most popular ones such as 'Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,' 'My Old Kentucky Home,' and 'Old Folks at Home' (or "Way Down Upon the Swanee River?). The sketchbook, which dates to June 26, 1851, can be searched by a full-text transcription or browsed by song title."

Beethoven-Haus Bonn
http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de
"More than 5,000 handwritten letters and manuscripts of Beethoven have been scanned and many are now available at this site. The Web site, in English and German, also includes audio examples of some of Beethoven's works."

I Hear America Singing (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/ihashome.html
"Invites visitors to experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials."