Music Iconography / Iconografia musicale

on-line resources 

(Please, let me know about other web sites!)

• MusIco software for Musical Iconography: http://www.musico.it/Musico/index.html 
• RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale):      http://web.gc.cuny.edu/rcmi/ridim.htm
• Mary Rasmussen's Musical Iconography: http://www.unh.edu/music/igref.htm [full information about the art works, including bibliography, but no images]
• Art and Early Music: http://www-ceb.bo.infn.it/meneghini/icon/iconog1.htm [images, but no information]
• Joëlle Morton's Bowed Bass Iconography: http://www.greatbassviol.com/iconography.html [images and some information]
• Renovata Cythara, The Renaissance Cittern Page: http://www.theaterofmusic.com/cittern/ [some information, including some bibliography; images of most of the art works]
• Old Lutes - Lute Iconography: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/icon/ [images and some information]
• Dag Arve's Klassiskgitar.net (Norway): http://www.klassiskgitar.net/ [over 800 paintings, drawings, prints etc., mainly of guitar- and luteplayers, but also images with other plucked instruments; and information about their location]
• Database of Violin Iconography: http://violadabraccio.com/violin.pictures/index.php [images and some information]
• Recorder Iconography: www.recorderhomepage.net/art.html [pointers to many images]
• Crumhorn Iconography: http://www.recorderhomepage.net/crumhorn.html#art [images and information]
• Bagpipe Iconography Page: http://www.prydein.com/pipes/ [good images, with little information but generally with comments regarding the instruments]
• Trombone Iconography: http://www.kimballtrombone.com/trombone-timeline/
• Portative organ iconography: http://www.portativo.it/ico.asp [images, full information and technical details regarding the instruments. In Italian]
• Viola da gamba iconography: http://www.orpheon.org and http://www.orpheon.org/OldSite/Seiten/education/ShapeUpMain.htm [several images, especially pictures of real instruments]
• Serpent iconography: http://www.serpentwebsite.com/photo.htm and http://www.serpentwebsite.com/gallery.htm [few pictures, but interesting indeed!]
• Orchestra Barocca: http://www.orchestratiepolo.it/ (follow  link: Pinacoteca) [images and some information]
• Musicologie.org: http://musicologie.free.fr/galerie/galerie_1.html [images and some information]
• IRPMF - centre d’iconographie musicale: http://www.irpmf.culture.fr/ [advertisement regarding the existence of a database of music iconography, not available on-line]
• Baroque Composers Portrait Gallery:  http://www.baroquemusic.org/compgall.html [images, no information regarding the artworks, biography of the musicians portrayed]

Also very useful:

• Artcyclopedia:http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
• Web Gallery of Art: http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/index.html
• WORLDART Web Kiosk: http://worldart.sjsu.edu/ 
• ICONCLASS Libertas Browser: http://www.iconclass.nl/libertas/ic?style=index.xsl
• MNEMOSYNE: http://www.mnemosyne.org/

Humor:

• Banda Osiris, Piccola Enciclopedia dei Termini Musicali: http://www.bandaosiris.it/ (follow link to "Enciclopedia" and find funny "images of music")

 

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