Scores and beyond: the dark side of audio multimedia

The vast majority of the kind of music the author interested in is only available in the form of a symbolic representation known as the score. Therefore, searching for and working with scores to him is as important as searching for and working with recorded audio material. As long as one is happy with finding printed scores based on classical bibliographical data, the Internet revolution has made life much easier. Most library catalogs are accessible via the Internet, publishers now usually have a Web site, and many distributors provide curated catalogs of critical editions - for example, searching for all edited masses by Johann Ernst Eberlin takes a matter of minutes. Fortunately, more specialized compilations of content have emerged, like Musica (http://www. musicanet.org/en/index.htm). Musica strives to gather information on all choral music into a single research tool.