Bibliographies and Guides to Music Theory Research
The following resources provide bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to music theory scholarship, as well as listings of specialized analyses or methods organized by time period, instrumentation, or topic.
Although this source is quite old, it may be useful for historiographical research and locating contemporaneous writings on mid-20th-century music theory.
The Theory of Music: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts. International Inventory of Musical Sources by Inventory of Musical Sources/Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)These volumes comprise Series B/III of the International Inventory of Musical Sources/Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) project:
- v. 1. From the Carolingian era up to 1400 / edited by Joseph Smits van Waesberghe with the collaboration of Peter [sic] Fischer and Christian Maas
- v. 2. From the Carolingian era up to 1400: Italy / edited by Pieter Fischer
- v. 3. Manuscripts from the Carolingian era up to c. 1500 in the Federal Republic of Germany (D-brd) / by Michel Huglo and Christian Meyer
- v. 4. Manuscripts from the Carolingian era up to c. 1500 in Great Britain and in the United States of America / part I, Great Britain, by Christian Meyer ; part II, United States of America, by Michel Huglo and Nancy C. Phillips
- v. 5. Manuscripts from the Carolingian era up to c. 1500 in the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, and Spain / part I, Czech Republic, by Christian Meyer ; part II, Poland, by Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba ; part III, Portugal and Spain, by Karl-Werner Gümpel
- v. 6. Manuscripts from the Carolingian era up to c. 1500 : addenda, corrigenda / by Christian Meyer in collaboration with Giuliano Di Bacco [and others].
Call Number: MUSIC REF ML113.I6vol B/III (six volumes)
Although this source is quite old, it may be useful for historiographical research and locating contemporaneous writings on mid-20th-century serial music.
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