Vocal and instrumental music resources

Musical instruments and voice

• The names of instruments and voices in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish

• When is a flute not a flute, by David Lasocki

• Musical instrument ranges

• Vocal ranges | What does SATB mean? | Song cycles | Parts of the mass

Publishers

• Music publishers: list from IMSLP, with direct links for music publishers plate numbers (useful for estimating a date for a score with no date of publication)

Dictionaries

• Basic glossary of musical forms | Dolmetsch music dictionary online | On music dictionary
  Dolmetsch musical symbols: explanation of musical notation, some with equivalents in other languages
  Italian musical terminology (see also Language tools for music cataloging)

Notation

• Table of musical pitches

• Early music notation:

  • Neume notation through history

  • Evolution of noteshapes

  • Rhythmic modes in medieval polyphony