In addition to the acquisition of conventional media, the services of the Specialized Information Service for Musicology (FID Musicology) also include the nationwide provision of digital resources for the musicological community in Germany. This involves selecting and licensing online resources that are highly relevant to scholarship and research.
What are FID licenses?
The FID licenses offer researchers throughout Germany access to specialized databases and selected online resources. The spectrum ranges from classic databases to streaming services and e-book packages. The offer of these licenses is limited to a defined group of users and can only be used after prior registration.
Access to the FID licenses:
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Which databases/media are considered?
Acquisitions within the framework of the FID Musicology are oriented towards the top needs of music research. The selection of licensed products is made in consultation with the FID Advisory Board and is subject to continuous evaluation with regard to the needs of science and research. Products for basic needs (e.g. online encyclopaedias such as MGG Online) are excluded. If you would like to suggest a product for licensing, you can notify us using the "Wish List" form.
The offers at a glance
After registration you have access to the following offers:
The online portal BabelScores - contemporary music online is dedicated to contemporary or new music. The focus is primarily on music that has been created in the last 40 years. With over 210,000 music pages, BabelScores is considered one of the most important online libraries for new music and also offers users the opportunity to listen to embedded audio recordings of the works.
BabelScores thus combines the advantages of an online library and streaming service with the goal of promoting and disseminating new music.
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-BCM', you will receive all hits for BabelScores - Contemporary Music Online.
The Brill E-Book Collections Musikwissenschaft offer access to selected academic literature from Brill and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in full text.
Available are 184 titles from the publishers/imprints Brill, Schöningh and Fink as well as 176 titles from the publishers/imprints Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, V&R Unipress and Böhlau.
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-BCMU', you will receive all hits for the Brill E-Book Collections Musikwissenschaft.
The Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture, edited by Dan Diner on behalf of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, presents the state of international research on recent Jewish history and culture (1750 to 1950) in Europe, America, the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas in around 800 articles. Around 40 extensive key articles provide comprehensive information on central topics and concepts such as autonomy, exile, emancipation, literature, liturgy, music and the science of Judaism. The parallel English translation Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online has been published since 2018. The articles in letters A-S are currently available (as of November 2022).
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-EJH', you will receive all hits for the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture.
The bibliographic database Index to Printed Music contains over 356,000 references to musical works that have been printed in editions and series on classical music. The basis is the specialist bibliography Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography, by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens, Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press 1997.
In addition, over 20,000 name variations and vital records of composers, librettists, and editors are available.
"Index to Printed Music" is an ongoing project of the non-profit organization James Adrian Music Company.
The JSTOR Complete Music Collection was compiled especially for the needs of the FID Music and contains 111 titles from the field of musicology. It includes not only the titles integrated in JSTOR's "Music Collection", but also all music-related journals offered in the JSTOR archive program. Journals are covered from their first volume up to a so-called "moving wall" (depending on the title, up to ten years before the current volume). The collection contains journals from 16 countries, including such traditional titles as “Archiv für Musikwissenschaft”, “Musical Times”, “Revue de Musicologie” or “Studien zur Musikwissenschaft”.
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-JCM', you will receive all hits for the JSTOR Complete Music Collection.
The streaming portal Maison ONA contains scores and audio recordings of contemporary classical music from France.
Medici.tv is a streaming portal from the field of classical music. The video-on-demand offer includes concert recordings, opera recordings and ballet performances from the most prestigious institutions and competitions in the international music world - including numerous live broadcasts.
Medici.tv also includes a large catalog of interviews, documentaries and recorded master classes by renowned personalities.
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-MTV', you will receive all hits for the medici.tv.
The Music Index Online contains references from over 850 international musicological journals and annuals, with full texts available for more than 230 titles. Thematically, all genres of classical and popular music are covered. Essays, conference reports, obituaries, reviews of books, performances and recordings from the reporting year 1974 are listed. Smaller amounts of data are included for the period 1952 - 1973.
The FID license includes Volumes II, III, IV and V, which build on Classical Scores Library I (freely accessible as a national license throughout Germany).
Volume II provides access to approximately 200,000 pages, including new works by contemporary composers as well as numerous previously unrepresented composers from earlier centuries - e.g. Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini and Michael Haydn. In addition, the database contains all 60 volumes of The Symphony 1720-1840, the largest full-text collection of 18th-century symphonies.
Volume III offers approximately 400,000 pages of copyrighted editions by composers worldwide. The collection includes editions from publishers such as Chester Music, Novello & Company, Faber Music, Wilhelm Hansen, Donemus, and others, numerous important choral and instrumental works for brass, woodwind, and other instrumental groups. In addition, modern editions of works by Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Byrd, Gibbons, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Purcell are presented, as well as classical works by Elgar, De Falla, Franck, Holst, Joubert, Maxwell-Davies, Musgrave, Saariaho, Sallinen, Stravinsky, or Tchaikovsky.
Volume IV, when completed in 2017, contains approximately 300,000 pages (4,000 - 5,000 works) primarily by 20th and 21st century composers. Mainly represented original publishers are Donemus (Netherlands), Hansen (Denmark), Novello and Chester Music (both UK). Included in particular are lesser-known (small and single) works by well-known authors.
Volume V builds on Volume IV and focuses on contemporary composers and works from the 20th and 21st centuries as well as a selection of scores from the Middle Ages, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. The collection includes scores from publishers such as Donemus, Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH, Novello & Company, Chester Music, Faber Music and Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, and the University of York Music Press.
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-MOS', you will receive all hits for Music Online - Classical Scores Library II, III, IV und V.
The Oxford Scholarship Online Music Collection provides access to selected scholarly textbooks from Oxford University Press and other university presses. Approximately 330 titles from the Music Collection are available from Oxford University Press, the Yale Scholarship Online Music Collection, the University Press of Mississippi Music Collection, and the North Carolina Scholarship Music Collection.
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-UMC', you will receive all hits for Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books.
The collection ProQuest Ebook Central Music Collection includes all titles relevant to musicology that have been published since 2013 and are offered as e-books on the aggregator platform MyiLibrary. In particular, titles from Cambridge Scholars Publishing, McFarland & Co, Peter Lang, Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge, etc. are represented. The title list is updated quarterly.
Research tip: The online catalog FIDELIO offers you a comprehensive search entry to all FID licenses. By entering the product identifier 'ZDB-1-PQM', you will receive all hits for ProQuest Ebook Central Music Collection.
Recent Researches in Music Online (RRIMO) is a full-text database for over 750 volumes of scholarly editions of musical works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century (scores and individual part editions) published by A-R Editions since 1964. They come from the nine "Recent researches" series for Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Renaissance, Baroque Era, Classical Era, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, American Music, Yale University (1. and 2. series) and Oral Traditions. There is a moving wall of 5 years for the latest volumes.
The text parts of the publications are fully searchable; the volumes are additionally indexed with structural data. The music texts can be printed out or downloaded for private use.
RIPM Preservation Series is based on the largest bibliography of historical music music journals and provides direct access to numerous full texts, such as the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung, Le Guide musical and Musical America. In addition, the full-text collection offers through its extensive holdings a multifaceted insight into the musical life of the cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Milan, New York, Prague, Paris, St. Petersburg and Vienna.
Who can register?
All personal members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM), the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) and the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH). Individuals without a connection to the DGM, GfM or GMTH can register via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, stating a research interest. Due to the contractual requirements of the license partners, a residence in Germany is generally required for all registrations. In addition, members of research institutes based abroad but funded by public institutions in Germany have the option of registering with the respective German address of the funding organization. A detailed explanation can be found in the tutorial (only available in German): Users of FID licenses for musicology.
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