01.01
External public source
National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov”
Official NMA site — an institutional source for profiles, academic publications and materials used in the verified dataset.
Useful Links
Verified institutional, bibliographic, repository and identifier links used by BSMT’s public evidence layer.
Useful Links
Curated scholarly resources for music theory, analysis, harmony, polyphony, music and mathematics, machine learning, encoded score corpora and research-journal archives. Priority is given to peer-reviewed publications, academic institutions and publicly accessible datasets.
Bulgarian academic institutions
01.02
External public source
Institute of Art Studies — BAS
Official Institute of Art Studies site, including Bulgarian Musicology, Art Readings and public dissertation materials.
International institutional sources
02.01
External public source
Texas State University — School of Music
Official institutional source used for Dimitar Ninov's profile and publication evidence.
02.02
External public source
Mozarteum University Salzburg
Official institutional source used in documenting Vladimir Popov and international professional activity.
Harmony, music theory and tuning systems
03.01
External public source
Yury Kholopov — Harmony: Theoretical Course
Original Russian scholarly treatise on harmony (1988), available for online reading at the Russian State Library.
03.02
External public source
Yury Kholopov — scholarly bibliography
Authoritative bibliography from the Moscow Conservatory; full text varies by publication.
03.03
External public source
Yury Kholopov — archived kholopov.ru (Wayback Machine)
Archived capture of the academic website “Yury Nikolayevich Kholopov and His School”, with books, articles and an electronic library. Captured on 25 December 2023; some historical files may not be preserved.
03.04
External public source
Xenharmonic Wiki
Community wiki covering microtonality, interval systems, temperaments and tuning theory; not a peer-reviewed journal.
03.05
External public source
Xenharmonic Reference
Additional community-edited reference for mathematical representations of intervals, temperaments and tunings.
Analysis and polyphony — annotated score corpora
04.01
External public source
DCML — harmonically annotated corpora
Collection of scores, expert harmonic annotations and machine-readable tables for systematic analysis.
04.02
External public source
Josquin Research Project
Open research archive of Renaissance polyphony with scores, pattern search and analytical tools.
04.03
External public source
The 1520s Project
Open-access Renaissance polyphony library with encoded scores and comparative analysis.
04.04
External public source
When in Rome — harmonic-analysis meta-corpus
About 2,000 functional harmonic analyses of 1,500 works in machine-readable RomanText with code for validation, querying and comparison; inherited analyses have diverse licences.
04.05
External public source
ChoCo — chord annotations and knowledge graph
More than 20,000 time-aligned chord annotations for audio and symbolic scores, using Roman-numeral and Harte encodings, with linked-data representation and provenance.
04.06
External public source
Distant Listening Corpus — DCML 2025
Research-published corpus of expert-annotated scores for harmony and corpus studies, including Bach, Couperin, Bartók and Clara Schumann; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
04.07
External public source
OpenScore Lieder — machine-readable art songs
Machine-readable art-song scores, lyrics, metadata and automatic harmonic analyses for corpus research; released scores are CC0.
04.08
External public source
OpenScore String Quartets — scores and data
Machine-readable nineteenth-century string-quartet scores with metadata, openly available as a documented CC0 corpus.
04.09
External public source
Cantus Database — searchable plainchant sources
Academic research database of medieval and later liturgical chant manuscripts, inventories and melodies; a major resource for modal and historical theory.
04.10
External public source
Dezrann — scholarly score/audio annotation platform
Open scholarly platform for score/audio synchronisation, structural and harmonic annotations and reproducible music corpora; GPL open-source software.
04.11
External public source
CRIM — Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass
Open Haverford College project on quotation and imitation in Renaissance Masses, with MEI scores, intertextual relations and contrapuntal patterns.
04.12
External public source
CRIM Intervals — contrapuntal pattern research
Open Python/Pandas tools for melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal pattern discovery, cadence studies and similarity analyses in MEI/MusicXML/MIDI.
04.13
External public source
DCML — Monteverdi madrigals corpus
Encoded scores and expert harmonic annotations for Monteverdi madrigals, supporting dissonance research and Renaissance-to-Baroque style studies.
04.14
External public source
Annotated Beethoven Corpus — string-quartet harmonic analyses
Expert Roman-numeral harmonic analyses of all Beethoven string quartets with DCML-standard scores and machine-readable data.
04.15
External public source
TAVERN — theme and variation harmonic corpus
27 Mozart and Beethoven piano theme-and-variation sets (281 variations, 1,060 phrases) with Roman-numeral analyses and Humdrum encodings.
04.16
External public source
Jazzomat — Weimar Jazz Database
Annotated jazz solo transcriptions, MIDI and statistical research software; Weimar Jazz Database is distributed under ODbL.
04.17
External public source
MSAF / SALAMI — structural segmentation annotations
Reference annotations for music structure, including SALAMI, Isophonics and BeatlesTUT; most audio is excluded for copyright reasons.
Music, mathematics and computational analysis
05.01
External public source
MusMat — Music and Mathematics
Open-access scholarly journal on mathematical music models, composition, transformations and formal analysis.
05.02
External public source
Humdrum Toolkit
Open computational toolkit for symbolic music processing and quantitative music analysis.
05.03
External public source
music21 — computational music analysis
Research-oriented Python toolkit for harmony, counterpoint, intervals, corpus studies and statistical analyses.
05.04
External public source
MIT — Computational Music Theory and Analysis
Open MIT course by Michael Scott Cuthbert on algorithmic music analysis, corpus studies, symbolic representations, similarity, machine learning and music21, with lectures and research assignments.
05.05
External public source
MCM 2026 — Mathematics and Computation in Music
Peer-reviewed proceedings of the 10th international conference (44 papers) on scale theory, algebra, symmetry, mathematical harmony and algorithms. Public metadata; subscription book.
05.06
External public source
partitura — symbolic score research toolkit
Open Python toolkit for MEI, MusicXML, Humdrum and MIDI, score-performance alignment, symbolic features and machine learning.
Artificial intelligence and music — open datasets
06.01
External public source
Magenta — music dataset catalogue
Research collections of MIDI, audio, ensemble recordings and annotations for musical machine learning.
06.02
External public source
MAESTRO — aligned MIDI and audio
About 200 hours of aligned piano performance MIDI and audio; transcription, representation and generation research. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
06.03
External public source
MTG-Jamendo — annotated music audio
More than 55,000 tracks with genre, instrument and mood tags; check individual audio licences.
06.04
External public source
mirdata — reproducible MIR dataset access
Open Python library for downloading, validating and consistently accessing music information retrieval datasets; BSD-3-Clause licensed.
06.05
External public source
OSSQ-OMR — optical music recognition benchmark (2026)
Recent public benchmark pairing string-quartet score imagery with encoded notation for optical music recognition; derived from OpenScore.
06.06
External public source
PDMX — public-domain MusicXML corpus (ICASSP 2025)
Large public symbolic-music corpus for generative models and copyright-aware filtering. Verify per-item provenance and licences.
06.07
External public source
GigaMIDI — large-scale MIDI and loop corpus
Large research corpus of MIDI events and musical loops for structural and expressive modelling. Research-oriented with dataset-specific conditions.
06.08
External public source
Slakh2100 — aligned multitrack audio and MIDI
Synthetic 2,100-track multitrack corpus of aligned MIDI and audio for transcription and source separation; CC BY 4.0.
06.09
External public source
Lakh MIDI Dataset — 176,581 unique MIDI files
Large symbolic-music research dataset containing 176,581 unique MIDI files and linked metadata. Some files may be malformed; catalogue lists CC BY 4.0.
06.10
External public source
ISMIR — community music datasets directory
Official MIR society directory of research datasets; the datasets and their licences remain with their external repositories.
06.11
External public source
MIREX 2026 — MIR evaluation benchmarks
Community evaluation platform and benchmarks for chord analysis, beat tracking, transcription and music information retrieval accompanying ISMIR 2026.
06.12
External public source
IncompeBench — music retrieval benchmark
Public benchmark for music retrieval and semantic matching of music excerpts; confirm scope and licence from its dataset card.
06.13
External public source
GiantMIDI-Piano — piano performance transcriptions
10,855 transcribed piano performances from 2,786 composers; public repository archived read-only in 2025, with separate disclaimer for full dataset download.
Open scholarly books and historical treatises
07.01
External public source
Open Music Theory — open university textbook
Open university-level book on harmony, counterpoint, form, jazz, popular music and orchestration, with scores and exercises.
07.02
External public source
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
Robert Hutchinson’s complete four-semester university music-theory textbook covering harmony, form and analytical techniques; online and PDF.
07.03
External public source
Fundamentals, Function, and Form — Andre Mount
University-level book on tonal harmony, harmonic function, chromaticism and musical form.
07.04
External public source
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
Indiana University research centre with digital publications and primary-source corpora in the history of music theory.
07.05
External public source
Historical music-theory treatises — CHMTL Thesauri
Full-text corpora including Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, Italian music-theory essays, French music treatises and English music texts.
07.06
External public source
Project Gutenberg — historical counterpoint treatise
Full text of Friedrich J. Lehmann, A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons, freely available in e-book formats.
07.07
External public source
DOAB — Directory of Open Access Books
Discovery service for scholarly open-access books, including musicology, composition and music theory.
07.08
External public source
OAPEN Library — open scholarly monographs
Repository of open-access scholarly monographs, with publisher details and licences listed by title.
Digital libraries, score archives and bibliography
08.01
External public source
Bulgarian COBISS network and National Library catalogue
Bibliographic discovery of books, dissertations and research publications, linking directly to the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library catalogue.
08.02
External public source
RISM Online — international music-source catalogue
Bibliographic records for manuscripts, printed music and theoretical treatises; some link to digital facsimiles.
08.03
External public source
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Extensive digital score library; copyright status depends on jurisdiction and edition.
08.04
External public source
CPDL / ChoralWiki — choral score library
Specialist repository of choral and vocal scores, composer information and polyphonic repertory. Free-to-read access does not imply unrestricted reuse: check the licence and copyright status of each edition.
08.05
External public source
Humdrum Data — open score corpora
Public repositories of machine-readable **kern score corpora for scholarly computational analysis.
08.06
External public source
Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
Open scholarly standard for encoding, publishing and archiving machine-readable musical documents.
08.07
External public source
CEEOL
Bibliographic records and access to scholarly publications from Central and Eastern Europe.
08.08
External public source
dLib.si
Digital Library of Slovenia, used for verified public bibliographic and full-text records.
08.09
External public source
DIAMM — Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Research catalogue of thousands of manuscripts and tens of thousands of medieval polyphony images; some digital images require free registration.
08.10
External public source
The 1520s Project — downloadable encoded scores
Source repository of 600+ Renaissance scores in Humdrum, MusicXML, PDF and Sibelius formats for computational musicology.
08.11
External public source
Early Music Online — Renaissance music prints
Over 320 sixteenth-century printed music volumes from the British Library, containing around 10,000 works, mainly vocal polyphony; non-commercial research and educational licence.
08.12
External public source
RILM — international music research bibliography
International research bibliography and reference infrastructure for music scholarship, encyclopedias and related resources; principal databases require institutional subscriptions.
Historical scores, digital editions and manuscripts
09.01
External public source
Mutopia Project — freely licensed scores
Scores in PDF, MIDI and editable LilyPond formats published under public-domain or open licences.
09.02
External public source
Gallica — scores and historical music books
Bibliothèque nationale de France digital library with scores, manuscripts, historical books and printed music.
09.03
External public source
Sibley Music Library — digital scores and books
Eastman School of Music institutional repository containing more than 23,000 digitised public-domain scores and books.
09.04
External public source
Europeana — digitised sheet music
European cultural-heritage portal for sheet music from libraries, archives and museums, with rights-status filters.
09.05
External public source
Bavarian State Library — digitised printed scores
Digitised printed scores across historical periods from the Bavarian State Library.
09.06
External public source
Bavarian State Library — music manuscripts
Digitised manuscripts, autographs, copies and historical choirbooks in the Bavarian State Library.
09.07
External public source
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin — digital music collections
Search across digitised scores, manuscripts, autographs and historical music collections.
09.08
External public source
Bach Digital — music source archive
Research database of manuscripts, editions and primary sources concerning the Bach family, with digital images where available.
09.09
External public source
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Online — critical scores
Free online access to the complete Neue Mozart-Ausgabe scores and critical reports for personal, scholarly and educational use.
09.10
External public source
Digital Mozart-Edition — scholarly digital editions
International Mozarteum Foundation portal for digital music editions, manuscripts, source catalogues and documents.
09.11
External public source
Chopin’s First Editions Online
Scholarly collection of Chopin’s first editions with score images and commentary on textual variants.
09.12
External public source
Online Chopin Variorum Edition
Comparative edition of Chopin manuscripts and first editions for source criticism and music analysis.
09.13
External public source
Chopin Early Editions — University of Chicago
University of Chicago digital repository of more than 400 early and first editions of Chopin’s works.
09.14
External public source
Beethoven-Haus — Beethoven digital archive
Official archive of music autographs, sketches, early editions, letters, images and scholarly records; free viewing with item-specific reuse conditions.
09.15
External public source
BraQV — Brahms source catalogue
Scholarly catalogue of Brahms sources and critical-edition documentation at Kiel University; bibliographic access does not imply all facsimiles are downloadable.
09.16
External public source
Brahms-Portal — manuscripts and early editions
Digital research portal for Brahms manuscripts, autographs, early printed scores and correspondence; reuse is governed by individual holdings.
09.17
External public source
Schubert Online — manuscripts and early editions
Digital archive featuring more than 500 Schubert music manuscripts and over 600 first and early editions, with images and scholarly metadata.
Scholarly journal and conference proceedings archives
10.01
External public source
Bulgarian Musicology — journal archive
Research journal of the Institute of Art Studies, including publicly indexed issues and articles; access varies by issue.
10.02
External public source
Journal of Music Theory (JMT) — JSTOR archive
Complete bibliographic archive of Yale University's peer-reviewed music theory journal, published by Duke University Press since 1957. Issues and metadata are discoverable; most full texts require institutional or subscription access.
10.03
External public source
Journal of Music Theory (JMT) — publisher
Publisher site with current issues, editorial details, submissions and online access. Full-text access depends on subscription or individual article terms.
10.04
External public source
Journal of Music Theory (JMT) — early issues 1957–1961
Scholarly index linking to digitised complete early issues (1957–1961) in the Internet Archive; reading and reuse follow the conditions of the respective archived item.
10.05
External public source
Music Theory Online — archive
Peer-reviewed music theory and analysis research; open electronic archive.
10.06
External public source
ZGMTH — German music theory journal
Peer-reviewed music theory and analysis journal with open archived issues and DOIs.
10.07
External public source
Analitica — Rivista online di studi musicali
Italian open-access peer-reviewed journal in analysis, theory and research methods.
10.08
External public source
Musimédiane — research archive
French multimedia research journal with contemporary-music analyses, scores and sound examples.
10.09
External public source
Empirical Musicology Review — archive
Peer-reviewed empirical musicology research, perception and quantitative analysis.
10.10
External public source
TISMIR — journal archive
Peer-reviewed journal of music information retrieval, audio and symbolic music analysis.
10.11
External public source
Music & Science — journal archive
Open-access peer-reviewed journal across music, empirical sciences and technology.
10.12
External public source
ISMIR — conference proceedings archive
International proceedings archive for MIR, machine learning and music data.
10.13
External public source
T&AM — European open-access music theory journals
Curated European directory of open-access music theory and analysis journals.
10.14
External public source
Music Theory Spectrum — journal archive
The Society for Music Theory flagship peer-reviewed journal for systematic theory, analysis, transformations and new analytical methods. Archive since 1979; much full text requires a subscription.
10.15
External public source
Music Analysis — journal archive
International peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Music Analysis, covering formal, historical and comparative music analysis since 1982; selected articles are open access.
10.16
External public source
Music Theory and Analysis — Leuven University Press
Peer-reviewed international journal connecting European and North American music-theory and analytical traditions. Issues are offered by subscription.
10.17
External public source
Journal of Mathematics and Music — archive
Journal of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music on mathematical modelling, musical structures, transformations and formal analysis.
10.18
External public source
Journal of New Music Research — archive
Peer-reviewed research on music and technology, computational analysis, audio, music information and empirical methods; previously known as Interface.
10.19
External public source
Music Perception — journal archive
Empirical and theoretical research in music cognition, rhythmic perception, performance and psychoacoustics, including individually open-access articles.
10.20
External public source
SMT-V — peer-reviewed video journal
Open-access, peer-reviewed video journal of the Society for Music Theory publishing audiovisual research in music theory and analysis.
10.21
External public source
Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
International peer-reviewed open-access journal covering theoretical, historical, interdisciplinary and multimedia musicological scholarship.
10.22
External public source
Music and Data — interdisciplinary journal
New peer-reviewed University of California Press journal launching in 2026 on music, data, algorithms, generative AI and digital musical cultures. Subscription publication.
10.23
External public source
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy — journal archive
Peer-reviewed journal from the University of Oklahoma Libraries, relaunched open access in 2026; volume 39–40 includes a symposium on AI and music theory pedagogy.
10.24
External public source
Gamut — open-access music-theory journal
Peer-reviewed journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, providing full articles including volume 13 (2026).
10.25
External public source
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music — issues
Peer-reviewed full-text archive for historical music analysis, counterpoint, editions and primary sources, with issues through 2026. CC BY-NC-ND licence.
10.26
External public source
Indiana Theory Review — publisher archive
Peer-reviewed journal from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music since 1977; publisher archive and metadata with backfiles also distributed through subscription platforms.
10.27
External public source
Intégral — Eastman School of Music
Peer-reviewed annual journal from Eastman School of Music covering analysis, structural theory and interdisciplinary methods; JSTOR backfiles may require access.
10.28
External public source
Music Encoding Conference — proceedings
Conference proceedings in MEI, digital critical editions, MusicXML and computational musicology, with public bibliographic entries and links to full texts.
10.29
External public source
Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie — OA archive 1996–2013
All articles and reviews from volumes 1–18 of the Dutch music-theory journal preceding Music Theory and Analysis; full-text PDFs openly available.
Digital and comparative musicology — global musical traditions
11.01
External public source
Dunya — Turkish makam research collections
CompMusic research platform for Turkish makam recordings, scores, metadata, computational analysis and API access; some audio has restricted rights.
11.02
External public source
Global Jukebox — cross-cultural music research
Cross-cultural evidence on musical traditions, singing styles and related analyses worldwide; coded research data with separate rights for recordings.
11.03
External public source
Library of Congress — Jukebox Data
Public historic-recording collections and structured metadata for computational musicology; each recording retains its own legal status.
Persistent scholarly identifiers and metadata
12.01
External public source
Crossref
DOI and scholarly metadata infrastructure; part of the planned journal publishing stack.
12.02
12.03