MUSICAL CENTERS AND INSTITUTS

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American Institute of Musicology. Founded by Armen Carapetyan in 1946, AIM supports interest in Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music. The publications of the Institute are used by scholars and performers alike and constitute a major core collection of early music and theoretical writings on music. Since its founding, the Institute has published more than 650 scholarly volumes including the yearbook Musica Disciplina. The publications of the Institute are wide-ranging and comprise scholarly editions, books, and treatises. The scholarly editions include the complete works of major composers who lived up until the seventeenth century, composers such as Machaut, La Rue, Dufay, Willaert, Clemens, Rore, Compère, Crecquillon, Romero, and others. (See CMM for sacred and secular music and CEKM for keyboard music). Significant research findings resulting from the edition-making efforts are published in the series MSD. Published treatises include the works of influential writers from Guido of Arezzo to Jean Philippe Rameau. (See CSM and MISC). Significant collections of papers appear in MISC. Reference works are published in the series RMS. The Institute is continually accepting new book and edition proposals.

www.amc.net

American Music Center. Throughout the years, the American Music Center has been the consistent leader in pioneering new programs and services to support and advance the field of new American music. Founded in 1939 by Marion Bauer, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Otto Luening, Harrison Kerr, and Quincy Porter, the original mission, as created by these six composers, performers, publishers and educators, was: ... to foster and encourage the composition of contemporary (American) music and to promote its production, publication, distribution and performance in every way possible throughout the Western Hemisphere. To meet this mandate, the founders created a library of scores and recordings to address significant problems of access and promotion, and an information-gathering and distribution service to provide difficult-to-obtain data necessary for the promotion and of contemporary music.

www.amic.it

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American Musical Instrument Society. The American Musical Instrument Society is an international organization founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods. The membership of AMIS includes collectors, historians, curators, performers, instrument makers, restorers, dealers, conservators, teachers, students, and many institutional members. All individual members have full voting rights and, with the exception of spouse members, receive the Society's publications.

www.schoenberg.at

Arnold Schönberg Center. Arnold Schönberg's legacy remained in the possession of his heirs after his death in 1951 and was administered by his widow Gertrud Schönberg until 1967. In the 70s, Schönberg's heirs decided to make the collection available to the Arnold Schönberg Institute of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where a modern archive was established along with a concert hall and an exhibition hall. That archive was open to the public until 1997. Leonard Stein, who had studied with Schönberg, was the director of the Institute. (...)

www.barbican.org.uk

Barbican.

www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de

Beethoven-Haus Bonn Museum. Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace is of great importance for people throughout the world and the main attraction in the musical city of Bonn. The Museum contains the largest Beethoven collection in the world. Its impressive authentic documents bear witness to Beethoven's life and compositions.

www.musiccentre.ca

Canadian Music Center. Centre de Musique Canadienne. The Canadian Music Centre holds Canada's largest collection of Canadian concert music. The CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world. The Centre makes available on loan over 15,000 scores and/or works of Canadian contemporary music composers through its lending library. The CMC sells more than 900 CD titles featuring music of its Associate Composers and other Canadian independent recording producers. The Centre also offers an on-demand printing and binding service, music repertoire consultations, and is easily accessible through five regional centres across Canada, as well as through its website. The CMC also engages in a number of National outreach projects, is digitizing all its scores and works, conducts research, and administers several Awards.

www.cmbv.com

Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Créé en 1987, à l'initiative du Ministère de la Culture, le Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles a pour mission de retrouver, de restaurer, d'éditer et de diffuser, le plus largement possible, le patrimoine musical français des XVII e et XVIII e siècles, une période particulièrement riche, mais jusqu'à présent méconnue, de son histoire musicale. Il réunit pour ce faire, dans l' Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles, des chercheurs, des graveurs, des pédagogues et des musiciens interprètes, tous spécialistes de ce répertoire, qui travaillent ensemble à ce grand chantier musical et patrimonial. (...)

www.cnd.fr

Centre National de la Danse. Le Centre national de la danse, établissement public créé en novembre 1998 à l'initiative du Ministère de la culture et de la communication, est une institution unique en France et dans le monde dont l'action est fondée sur une circulation permanente entre accès à la culture chorégraphique, création et diffusion des ouvres et pédagogie. Une singularité qui s'inscrit dans les services proposés aux artistes, dans le soutien et l'accompagnement de leur travail, des processus de création jusqu'à la rencontre avec les publics, conçue sur des modes simples, directs, permettant l'échange et le dialogue. (...)

www.turchini.it

Centro di Musica Antica Pietà di Turchini.

www.krenek.com

Ernst Krenek Institute. (...) Prior to the establishment of the Ernst-Krenek-Institute-Private-Foundation in Krems, the Ernst Krenek Institute in Vienna, for five years, not only promoted his works but worked toward preserving them thus laying the ground work for establishing a foundation, which was its ultimate goal.

www.karajan.org

Herbert Karajan Centrum. The Herbert von Karajan Centrum sees itself as a cultural institution whose goal it is to preserve the musical legacy of the conductor in a central archive and make it available to the public on the one hand, and to continue the pursuit of the maestro's various interests and special projects on the other.

www.irpmf.culture.fr

Institut de Recherche sur le Patrimoine Musical en France. L'Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France (IRPMF) a été créé en janvier 1996. Ses programmes scientifiques portent sur la musique savante composée et jouée en France. Le caractère multiple de ses missions et des recherches menées permet des approches très diversifiées du patrimoine musical : éditions critiques des ouvres complètes et de la correspondance d'un compositeur, études historiques d'une période ou d'un aspect de la musique, analyse d'un genre musical, constitution d'outils de recherche Les équipes sont formées en majorité de musicologues, d'historiens et d'historiens d'art. L'IRPMF offre un potentiel important d'instruments documentaires (centres de documentation, bases de données textuelles et iconographiques) et assure des formations à la recherche par des séminaires réguliers. Il diffuse et valorise ses recherches grâce à ses publications et à des événements scientifiques (colloques et journées d'étude, expositions) qu'il suscite afin de créer une confrontation fructueuse avec différents champs disciplinaires et des publics variés.

www.icst.net

Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST of the Zurich School of Music, Drama and Dance (Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich HMT). The Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST of the Zurich School of Music, Drama and Dance (Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich HMT) came into being in January 2005. The ICST was the idea of Daniel Fueter, Rector of the HMT. It is divided into two departments, Computer Music and Sound Technology. Its primary function is to carry out research with particular emphasis on projects involving collaboration between these two domains. Student, teachers and researchers are welcome at the Institute to work on their projects. The Institute also invites composers to do research or to realize pieces in its studio. In addition, the ICST organizes several series of public events during the school year, including the ICSTalk lectures, monthly concerts in the Kleiner Saal in the Florhofgasse and the "Generator" concert series for student compositions. (...)

www.kloster-michaelstein.de

Institut für Aufführungspraxis.

www.imeb.net

Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges. L'Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique / Bourges a été créé en 1970 sous l'appellation GMEB jusqu'en 1994, par les compositeurs Françoise Barrière et Christian Clozier qui en assurent aujourd'hui la direction. Il est reconnu "Centre National de Création Musicale" depuis 1997. L'Association est régie par la Loi 1901 et reçoit ses subventions du Ministère de la Culture, de la Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, de la Ville de Bourges, du Conseil Régional du Centre, du Conseil Général du Cher. Avec l'ensemble de ses activités situées à un niveau international, Création, Recherche, Diffusion, Formation/Enseignement, Editions bibliographiques et phonographiques, Archivage/Etude et Pérennité des musiques électroacoustiques, l'Institut de Bourges est aujourd'hui l'un des principaux Centres de Création Musicale et sa notoriété est largement reconnue internationalement.

www.ircam.fr

IRCAM. Georges Pompidou initie en 1969 la création de l' Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique dont il confie la direction au compositeur et chef d'orchestre Pierre Boulez. L'Ircam devient alors, et demeure aujourd'hui encore, un centre unique au monde, dédié à la recherche et la création musicale contemporaine.