Research Guides: Romantic Music: Manuscripts & Early Editions

Finding Manuscripts & Early Printed Editions of Romantic Music

The following reference works can help you identify existing primary sources for Romantic music, as well as which research libraries and archives hold those sources. The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) is a comprehensive multi-volume series of print indexes to musical primary sources, and has more recently released searchable databases of its contents in CD-Rom format and online.

Collected Editions, Historical Series and Sets, and Monuments of Music by George R. Hill; Norris L. Stephens
Call Number: MUSIC REF ML113 .H55 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Source-book for Research in Music, Third Edition by Allen Scott
Call Number: ML113 .S46 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music by Steven G. Pallay
Call Number: MUSIC REF ML113 .P34 1987
Publication Date: 1987
Cross Index Title Guide to Opera and Operetta by Steven G. Pallay
Call Number: MUSIC REF ML128.O4 P3 1989
Publication Date: 1989

RISM Online Catalog
The online RISM catalog contains over 1,000,000 records for music manuscripts, printed music, libretti, and treatises from between the years 1600 and 1850, held in music libraries, archives, churches, and other institutions around the world.

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