Baroque Music (ca. 1600-1750): A Guide to Research and Resources: Sources & Editions

Digital edition of newspapers from the Burney Collection at the British Library. Most are 17th and 18th-century London newspapers, but there are also pamphlets and broadsides from throughout the United Kingdom. For list of key newspapers and other information, click here.

Princeton University collection providing rich documentation of the performance history of the music of George Frideric Handel, including manuscripts copied during Handel’s lifetime, performance materials originating in the decades following Handel’s death, documents of 19th-century commemorative festivals in England, and memorabilia.

Includes almost thirty rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas, ballets, and compilations by Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons. Maintained by the University of North Texas.

Presents new editions of 17th-century compositions that have remained unpublished or that are not available commercially. Click here for catalog. Sponsored by the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music.

Partially searchable digital images of books printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as works in English printed elsewhere. Based upon the Pollard and Redgrave Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and the Wing Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700)

Partially searchable digital images of about 150,000 books, primarily British, printed in the eighteenth century. Based on the Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue

Imprints before 1800 from Britain and its dependencies.