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CMO is a long-term project for the critical edition of Near Eastern music manuscripts. The project focusing on manuscripts of Ottoman music written in Hampartsum and staff notations during the nineteenth century, is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This platform provides access to the online versions of both music and text editions, as well as the source catalogue, which is a comprehensive database of printed, manuscript and online sources.
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Being both, a demand as well as a chance of the present age of information technology for cultural preservation and continuation, public databases possess an immense importance for providing a comprehensive access to cultural material as far as their contents and also their clientele of users are concerned. Therefore, an exemplary completely preserved stock of primary sources as the one of the Weimar theatre is no less than an invaluable piece of luck, possibly just due to the manageable local conditions of this small (former courtly) town in the middle of German language area. In this English version, first this rare cultural-historical phenomenon and its sources are described. Furthermore, the data- and metadata-contents within the Weimar theatre- and music-ephemera database are presented. Finally, the principal opportunities of searching this (meta-)data pool are explained, where presumed to be necessary supported by screenshot images from the internet platform.