Country:
ALBANIA
State:
City:
TIRANË
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Public Examinations in Music, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
This is a newly formed institution comprising the former Institute of Folk Culture and the Centre of Arts Studies. It operated formerly under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences, and is now under the Ministry of Education. Founded in 1979 from the amalgamation of several former institutions, the...
Country:
ALGERIA
State:
City:
ALGIERS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
With the French translation of its name as 'Musique Andalouse d'Alger', this is a cultural society particularly concerned with the promotion and preservation of classical Arab-Andalusian music. It was founded in 1951 from the amalgamation of two former societies. It is an ensemble of singers and ins...
Country:
ARGENTINA
State:
PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES
City:
BUENOS AIRES
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Institute, the principal music research institute in Argentina, was founded in 2006 and operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires. It is not a teaching institution. It carries out research into all aspects of ethnomusicology, with particular reference...
Country:
AUSTRALIA
State:
VICTORIA
City:
MELBOURNE
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
While there are no music programs at the university, it does hold the LaTrobe University Library Medieval Music Database (http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/MMDB/) with a vast collection of scores, colour images, texts and bibliographic information of medieval music from the twelfth to the fifteenth cent...
Country:
AUSTRALIA
State:
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
City:
PERTH
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University of Western Australia was established in 1911. The Conservatorium of Music has strong connections with the West Australian Opera and West Australian Symphony Orchestra. The Wigmore Library of the School of Music has a significant and growing collection of music by Australian composers....
Country:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
VIENNA (WIEN)
Special Indexes:
Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Austrian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1847, is the most prominent organisation promoting non-university academic research in Austria. In the area of music it works through its Institute for Art and Music Historical Research with a data bank of Austrian music. This Commission issues regular pu...
Country:
BELGIUM
State:
FLANDERS
City:
GHENT
Special Indexes:
Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The Institute, founded in 1996, offers music graduates and other young artists (Belgian and foreign) the possibility of developing their artistic talents and ability and broadening their academic knowledge under the guidance of prominent guest lecturers. The program combines musical performance with...
Country:
CROATIA
State:
City:
DUBROVNIK
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
This 14th century Monastery is a large complex belonging to the Order of Friars Minor, and consisting of a monastery, a church, a library and a pharmacy. It is not a teaching institution, but it houses a large archive of early Croatian music. During the siege of the city in 1991-92 it was moved off-...
Country:
CROATIA
State:
City:
ZAGREB
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Institute, founded in 1948, is not a teaching institution, but specialises in interdisciplinary research into Croatian folk music and ethnomusicology. In the New Ethnography Library there is a significant sound, film and manuscript archive of traditional Croatian music, dance and theatre costume...
Country:
CUBA
State:
City:
LA HABANA (HAVANA)
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This Center for Research and Development of Cuban Music (CIDMUC) is not a teaching institution. It was established in 1978 and is organized under the Instituto Cubano de la Música of the Ministry of Culture, the main objective being to foster studies, research and development in Cuban and Caribbean...
Country:
FINLAND
State:
City:
KAUSTINEN
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Finnish Folk Music Institute is an Accredited expert organisation of the Unesco Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is a music and dance research institute and information centre founded in 1974, with a large archive of Finnish folk music and dance, and a libr...
Country:
FINLAND
State:
City:
VAASA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
A government-subsidised research institute, founded in 1978, and concentrating on the traditional music of the Swedish language-speaking regions of Finland. Researches have been carried out in such areas as the instruments used in various districts, recording the history of the folk musician movemen...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
VERSAILLES
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
Created in 1987 by the Ministry of Culture, the Centre aims to rediscover, restore, edit and distribute the French musical heritage of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is associated with the national museum of Versailles and produces a season of concerts each year. The Centre consists of four departm...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
PARIS
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
After seventy years of existence the former Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires was closed in 2005 and its collections were transferred to the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseille, Province. While not a teaching institution as such it offers courses...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
PARIS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Musée du Quai Branly opened in 2006 and is the newest of the major museums in Paris. Among other research bodies and collections, it houses the French Society of Ethnomusicology, founded in 1982, a centre of ethnomusicological research through its Laboratoire d'ethnomusicologie. The research te...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D'AZUR
City:
MARSEILLE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Museum, known as MUCEM, was originally founded in 1937, and after a time spent at the Bois de Boulogne, it was relocated to Marseille in 2013. It conducts research into aspects of European and Mediterranean civilisations, including French culture both at home and in French possessions abroad. Wh...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
City:
HEIDELBERG
Special Indexes:
Music Therapy, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The German Centre for Music Therapy Research was founded in 1995. It is a not-for-profit institute of the University of Applied Sciences, Heidelberg (SRH Hochschule Heidelberg) and is the largest music therapy research institute in Europe. It houses an outpatient clinic for music therapy patients an...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
HESSEN
City:
DARMSTADT
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Jazz Institute is a municipal institute founded and financed by the City of Darmstadt. It is not a teaching organisation, but is a premier institution in the archiving, preservation, research and documentation of jazz and its evolution. It holds the largest public research archive on jazz in Eur...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
ATHENS
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Centre for Asia Minor Studies was established in 1930. It is not a teaching institution, but is a scientific institute involved in the collection, research and documentation of oral and written historical tradition related to Asia Minor Greeks. The Musical Folklore Archives form the oldest depar...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
ATHENS
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
Founded in 1989, the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA) is a non-profit, public interest organisation supported by the State, the European Union and private sponsors. It aims to develop and support research into all aspects of music and acoustics as well as to provide systematic in...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
THESSALONIKI
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The museum was founded in 1984. It houses the collection of 200 rebuilt instruments from 2800 BC until the beginning of the twentieth century. In the museum is also a music school where concerts and special educational projects for children are organised. There is a music library, an electronic arch...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
ATHENS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Museum of Popular Instruments – Research Centre for Ethnomusicology - is not a teaching institution. Established around 1840, it consists of a collection of about 1200 Greek traditional musical instruments dating from the 18th century to the present day. The aim is to collect, preserve, study ...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
ATHENS
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The Centre, founded in 1979 and operated under the guidance of Ianis Xenakis, conducts research into sound sources available for the composition of contemporary works. The aim is to research and develop the composition of electroacoustic music in Greece. The Centre has carried out research into the ...
Country:
HUNGARY
State:
City:
BUDAPEST
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Musicology Institute (Zenetudomanyi Intézet) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is not a teaching school. It is a research centre, an examining body and publisher of scholarly works. There are departments of folk music research and early music history. The Institute incorporates the Bartók A...
Country:
IRELAND
State:
City:
DUBLIN
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
While not a teaching institution, the Contemporary Music Centre, founded in 1986, documents and promotes Irish music. It is the national archive and resource centre for new Irish music in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. The library holds an audiovisual archive of some 10,000 recordings of Ir...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
HOKKAIDO PREFECTURE
City:
SAPPORO
Special Indexes:
Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The Center was established at Hokkaido University in 2007. It is not a teaching body, but conducts comprehensive and interdisciplinary research into Ainu and other indigenous peoples around the world, and provides education and public information about their cultures. It organises lessons, lectures ...
Country:
MEXICO
State:
FEDERAL DISTRICT OF MEXICO
City:
MEXICO CITY
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical Carlos Chávez (CENIDIM), founded in 1974, is one of four national entities that form the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL). This music section involves itself in research into Mexican music of various...
Country:
NORWAY
State:
City:
STAVANGER
Special Indexes:
Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This is not a teaching institution, but houses one of Europe’s biggest collections of recorded sound, with 50,000 78 rpm records, 120,000 LPs, 10,000 audio reel tapes, 5,000 video and music cassettes, 5,000 books about music as well as extensive technical equipment to play and copy different recor...
Country:
OMAN
State:
City:
MUSCAT
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
Established in 1984 by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, this is a research centre for Omani traditional music operating under the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture. The aim is to collect and document the country's musical heritage and ge...
Country:
POLAND
State:
City:
POZNAŃ
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Museum of Musical Instruments was established in 1945 as a section of the National Museum of Poznan and was re-opened in a splendidly restored arrangement in 2019. Not a teaching institution, the Museum is the only one of its kind in Poland, and one of the few in Europe. It runs courses in organ...
Country:
QATAR
State:
City:
DOHA
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This research centre was founded in 1983 by agreement between the governments of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Board of Directors includes representatives from each member State, with the chairperson being the Minister of Information from Qatar. ...
Country:
ROMANIA
State:
City:
CLUJ-NAPOCA
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei) was founded in 1922. It is not a teaching institution. It has a collection of traditional Romanian instruments as well as recordings and photographs of traditional costumes and instruments, together with information about t...
Country:
ROMANIA
State:
City:
BUCHAREST (BUCURESTI)
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The National Village Museum (Muzeul Național al Satului „Dimitrie Gusti”), created in 1936, is operated under the Ministry of Culture. It is an open-air ethnographic museum showcasing traditional Romanian village life, with 272 authentic peasant farms and houses from all over Romania. It can tr...
Country:
SERBIA
State:
City:
BELGRADE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts can trace its history back to 1841. The Musicological Institute was established in 1886 and is not a teaching institution. It engages in research into Serbian folk music and music of Serbian composers. Master and Doctor degrees are awarded for research in mus...
Country:
SLOVAKIA
State:
City:
BRATISLAVA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Institute can trace its history back to 1943. While not primarily a teaching body, it offers facilities for doctoral studies in musicology and ethnomusicology. The Institute conducts research into musical culture, including music and dance folklore in Slovakia in its regional, international and ...
Country:
SLOVENIA
State:
City:
LJUBLJANA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The Academy, founded in 1938, is not a teaching institution, but aims to promote and encourage research into sciences and arts. The Institute of Musicology was established in 1972. It specialises in the historical aspects of Slovene music, and has published in bibliographical catalogues, scientific ...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
ANDALUSIA
City:
GRANADA
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This is not a teaching body. It holds musical archival material of Andalusia, with the aim of conserving, cataloguing, classifying and disseminating musical materials pertaining to the province of Andalusia (scores, recordings, audio-visual materials and the like). Included in the collections are ma...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
ANDALUSIA
City:
MÁLAGA
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The University of Malaga was established in 1972. While there are no formal courses in music at the university, the research group MUSITHEMA from the University’s Faculty of Psychology and Education has been active in studying such topics as relationships between music and artistic education, musi...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
CATALONIA (CATALUÑA)
City:
BARCELONA
Special Indexes:
Research-only Institutions
Notes:
The Institution was created in 1968 to carry out advanced research in the humanities. It consists of two departments - a) archaeology and anthropology, and b) medieval studies, history of science and musicology, with some emphasis on knowledge and heritage in urban spaces. It is not a teaching body,...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
CATALONIA (CATALUÑA)
City:
BARCELONA
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The museum, founded in 1946, conducts restoration of and research into historical European and Spanish traditional instruments. It has an important collection of over 500 instruments from various periods and cultures, with biographical and musical documents of the main Catalan composers including I ...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
VIZCAYA (BASQUE COUNTRY)
City:
ERRENTERIA
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
Eresbil, founded in 1974, is not a teaching body. Its main goal is the collection, preservation, protection and dissemination of the Basque musical heritage and, especially, the production of Basque composers. It has a huge collection of scores, manuscripts, books, recordings and memorabilia of comp...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
VIZCAYA (BASQUE COUNTRY)
City:
OIARTZUN
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This is not a teaching body, through it does hold training courses for teachers and courses for students to complement their existing studies. The Centre was founded in 1996 and is involved in the collection and study of folk music. The archive holds a library of books, scores, manuscripts, photogra...
Country:
TUNISIA
State:
City:
SIDI BOU SAÏD
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Centre of Arab and Mediterranean Music was founded in 1991 and operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Leisure. The Centre acts as a facilitator of musical and cultural exchange between Europe and the Arab world. While not a teaching institution, it is the home of t...
Country:
VENEZUELA
State:
City:
CARACAS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
Notes:
A private foundation, organised in 1978 under the National Cultural Council of Venezuela with government support. It was granted its current name and status in 2016. It is the national musicological institution of Venezuela and not primarily a teaching body. It exists to preserve and promote Venezue...
Country:
VENEZUELA
State:
City:
CARACAS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Foundation of Ethnomusicology and Folklore (sometimes known as FUNDEF) was founded in 1987 and is organised through the National Cultural Council of Venezuela. It is not primarily a teaching body, and has the aim 'to investigate, preserve and disseminate the traditional and popular oral cultures...
Country:
YEMEN
State:
City:
SANA’A
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This recently established institution holds an archive of traditional Yemeni music, set up in 1998 with assistance from UNESCO and the Japanese government. Organised under the jurisdiction of the Yemeni Ministry of Culture, its director is Mr Jâber Alî Ahmed, a distinguished lute player and teache...