Research Resources

Staff and students at RNCM have access to a wide range of resources that support and enhance their research activity, including purpose-built library facilities with a wide range of specialist print, audio and online media, the RNCM archive collection, which includes significant personal and organisational papers and documents particularly of musicians associated with Manchester and the RNCM Historic Instrument Collection, which comprises more than 300 instruments, many in playable condition. In addition, research students have access at concessionary rates to the full range of the RNCM’s extensive and wide-ranging student and professional performance programme  as well as performer master-classes, composer workshops and auditions for the RNCM’s major ensembles and productions.

In collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute for Musical Research, and other collaborators, the RNCM provides comprehensive research training for students and guidance on a wide range of relevant issues, including the ethical conduct of research.

The RNCM Guidelines on Good Research Conduct are available here:  Guidelines on Good Research Conduct

Further useful links can be found below:

American Musicological Society www.ams-net.org

Arts and Humanities Research Council www.ahrc.ac.uk

British Academy www.britac.ac.uk

British Forum for Ethnomusicology www.bfe.org.uk/

British Library www.bl.uk

European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music www.escom.org

Golden Pages for Musicologists, Royal Holloway, University of London http://web.me.com/jpehs/golden-pages/Index.html

Higher Education and Funding Council for England www.hefce.ac.uk/

Institute of Musical Research http://music.sas.ac.uk/

International Musicological Society www.ims-online.ch/news.aspx

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) www.jisc.ac.uk

Library of Congress www.loc.gov/index.html

Music and Science Online www.science.rcm.ac.uk

PALATINE (Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Music, Dance and Drama) www.palatine.ac.uk

PRIMO (Practice as Research in Music Online) http://primo.sas.ac.uk/eprints/

Royal Musical Association www.rma.ac.uk

SEMPRE (Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research) www.sempre.org.uk

Society for Musical Analysis www.sma.ac.uk