MUSICA is currently a choral documentary search tool as well as a pedagogic tool for conductors, musicologists, schools of music, musical federations, music stores, etc... but it is also for amateurs and people eager to know about the choral music repertoire.
It fits perfectly as a database to manage a choral music library in a cooperative way with other libraries. It will be as a necessary tool for a choral conductor as his (her) tuning fork or pitch pipe.

MUSICA is a project those goals is to gather information on all choral music of the world into the single research tool. It is an international project and the database is therefore multilingual (French, German, English and Spanish), containing over 143,000 references (November 2003), what represents dozens of year-men of work. Its evolution to become a virtual multimedia library is underway. However this work will take many years, and the contribution of volunteers of the world's choral community is welcome to fasten its completion.

The documentary structure of each record is a set of 80 different types of information (composer, arranger, publisher, title, genre and form, level of difficulty, type of choir, language, century, instrumentation, etc ...). Even the musical themes are input for search and display. Musica on the Web will soon allow you to search on a musical theme!
For the moment, if you need to do such a search, you should get in touch with one of the Musica partners.

Each documentary field is subject to controls of coherence and homogeneity. Around twenty of them translate automatically by means of multilingual thesaurus elaborated by the team of Musica International. Thus a partner inputting data in a given language finds them automatically translated in all other activated languages.

Musica International c/o La Fabrique de Théâtre 13 rue de Phalsbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg (France) Tel: (+33) 3 88 36 17 54 Fax: (+33) 3 88 36 57 83 email: muse(at)musicanet.org