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• Digital Libraries - Gallica
• Catalogs
• Collections and departments
  • Arts
    • Architecture and city planning
    • Art and art history
    • Performing arts
    • Cinema and video
    • Prints, photographs, and posters
    • Music
  • Law, economics, politics
  • Languages and literatures
  • Book, press and media
  • Science and technology
  • Humanities, philosophy and religion
  • Social sciences
  • The departments
• Information retrieval aids
• Reproduction services
• Reader registration for the Research Library

See also

• Music-hall,songs, cabaret
• Dance, ballet
• Opera

Digital resources

• Périodiques électroniques de la BnF - Musique
• Les Signets de la BnF - Musique
• Exposition virtuelle Berlioz, la voie du romantisme

Catalogs

• Catalogue général de la BnF
• Catalogues imprimés

Where to consult the documents ?

• Music Department
• Prints and Photographs Department
• Audiovisual department

Ask a librarian

SINDBAD is a free virtual reference service providing document references and factual information. Ask a librarian (SINDBAD)

Music

• Scores
• Recorded music
• Books and journals
• Iconography

Music iconography

Habit de musicien. Nicolas de Larmessin.

© BnF

At the Richelieu-Louvois site (Site Richelieu-Louvois), the Music department holds a collection of around 10,000 portraits of musicians, composers, and performers (drawings, engravings, photographs, and caricatures).

The Prints and Photographs department also holds portraits of musicians, as well as the following:

• posters for shows
• illustrations for music score frontispieces 
• sheet music for songs 
• representations of instruments, dances, and concerts

The Audiovisual department holds graphic materials forming part of special collections (Charles Delaunay, Godovitch, etc.), as well as a very extensive corpus of disc labels and LP sleeves.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011