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Modern Architecture (114)

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School sourceColumbia GSAPP, ARCH 4348 Questions in Architectural History I
Begins with the late 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization; Fall 2026 sections by Mabel O. Wilson, Reinhold Martin, Lucia Allais, Maur Dessauvage.
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School sourceColumbia GSAPP, MArch degree requirements
Questions in Architectural History I and II, then four distribution courses (pre-1800; post-1800 N/W; post-1800 S/E; open).
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School sourceColumbia GSAPP, Master of Architecture program pagefree200
School sourceCornell AAP, M.Arch equivalency course informationfree200
School sourceCornell AAP, Professional Master of Architecturefree200
School sourceHarvard GSD, MArch I curriculum details by yearfree200
School sourceHarvard GSD, MArch I degree requirements (entering Fall 2026)
Lists HIS 4100 Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Origins and Ends; HIS 4223 Modernism, its Practices, and its Theories; SCI 6227/6229 Structural Design; SCI 6121/6122 Environmental Systems.
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School sourceHarvard GSD, MArch course waiver policy (history prerequisites)
States two semesters of architectural history (Renaissance through Modern) are prerequisites.
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School sourcePenn Weitzman, ARCH 5110 History and Theory I
Mid 19th century through World War II, global modernization.
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School sourcePenn Weitzman, Architecture MArch (Penn catalog)free200
School sourcePenn Weitzman, Master of Architecture programfree403
School sourcePrinceton Graduate School, Architecture field of studyfree403
School sourcePrinceton SoA, Professional M.Arch Student Handbook 2025 to 26 (PDF)
ARC 501/502 studio sequence and six History and Theory courses (18th/19th c., 20th c., urbanism or landscape, plus three more).
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School sourceYale School of Architecture, History and Theory study area (bulletin)
ARCH 7001 Architecture and Modernity: Theories and Projects; ARCH 7002 Architecture and Modernity: Sites and Spaces (Western architectural theory from 1750 to the present).
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VideoA305/01 What Is Architecture? An Architect at Work (CCA)free200
VideoA305/02 The Universal International Exhibition, Paris, 1900 (CCA)free200
VideoA305/03 Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Hill House (CCA)free200
VideoA305/04 Industrial Architecture: AEG and Fagus Factories (CCA)free200
VideoA305/05 Frank Lloyd Wright: The Robie House (CCA)free200
VideoA305/07 Erich Mendelsohn: The Einstein Tower (CCA)free200
VideoA305/08 The Bauhaus in Weimar 1919 to 1925 (CCA)free200
VideoA305/09 Berlin Siedlungen (CCA)free200
VideoA305/10 The Weissenhof Siedlung, 1927 (CCA)free200
VideoA305/11 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris 1925 (CCA)free200
VideoA305/12 Adolf Loos (CCA)free200
VideoA305/13 Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye (CCA)free200
VideoA305/16 Hans Scharoun (CCA)free200
VideoA305/21 The Other Tradition (CCA)free200
VideoA305/22 Mechanical Services in the Cinema (CCA)free200
VideoA305/24 The Housing Question (CCA)free200
VideoAesthetic perception and the architectural imagination (Harvard Online)free200
VideoArt Nouveau: Brussels and Victor Horta (HENI Talks)free200
VideoBeatriz Colomina, The Secret Life of Modern Architecture (Harvard GSD)free200
VideoDenise Scott Brown Symposium: South Street vs. Co-Op City (Yale School of Architecture)free200
VideoDenise Scott Brown, Mayhew's Architecture (Harvard GSD)free200
VideoFrank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Smarthistory)free200
VideoGustave Eiffel, The Eiffel Tower (Smarthistory)free200
VideoKenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture: Grafton Architects (Columbia GSAPP)free200
VideoKenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture: Rahul Mehrotra (Columbia GSAPP)free200
VideoKenneth Frampton, Architecture in the Age of Globalization (Harvard GSD)free200
VideoLe Corbusier, Villa Savoye (Smarthistory)free200
VideoLouis H. Sullivan, Schlesinger and Mayer Building (Smarthistory)free200
VideoLouis I. Kahn lecture, June 6, 1972 (SCI-Arc Media Archive)free200
VideoLouis I. Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum (Smarthistory)free200
VideoMies van der Rohe, Seagram Building (Smarthistory)free200
VideoOpen Course: Kenneth Frampton on Le Corbusier (Columbia GSAPP)free200
VideoRem Koolhaas lecture (Harvard GSD)free200
VideoSoaring upward: Louis Sullivan and the invention of the skyscraper (Smarthistory)free200
VideoThe Crystal Palace and iron in architecture (Harvard Online)free200
VideoThe first postmodern building: Vanna Venturi House (WTTW)free200
Video seriesCCA, A305 History of Architecture and Design 1890 to 1939 (Open University, 24 films)
1975 Open University broadcasts restored and posted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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Video seriesColumbia GSAPP YouTube channel (lectures)free200
Video seriesPenn Weitzman School YouTube channel (lectures)free200
Video seriesYale School of Architecture public lecture series (playlist)free200
Open course or textGetty Publications Virtual Library (free art and architecture books)free200
Open course or textHarvard Online, The Architectural Imagination (free to audit)
Harvard GSD faculty (K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski, Antoine Picon).
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Open course or textMIT OCW 4.125 Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapesfree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 4.401 Environmental Technologies in Buildingsfree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 4.430 Daylightingfree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 4.440 Basic Structural Designfree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 4.602 Modern Art and Mass Culturefree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 4.607 Thinking About Architecture: In History and at Presentfree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 4.645 Architecture from 1750 to the Presentfree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 4.665 Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debatefree (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textedX listing, The Architectural Imagination (HarvardX)free to audit200
Public domain textClaude Bragdon, Architecture and Democracy (1918) local copypublic domain200
Public domain textEbenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow (1902)public domain200
Public domain textFrank Lloyd Wright, Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe (Wasmuth portfolio, 1910)public domain200
Public domain textGottfried Semper, Der Stil (1878 ed., German)public domain200
Public domain textJohn Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) local copypublic domain200
Public domain textJohn Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, vol. 2 (contains The Nature of Gothic) local copypublic domain200
Public domain textLe Corbusier, Vers une architecture (1923, French original)public domain in the US (pre-1929); check local law elsewhere200
Public domain textLouis Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896) local copypublic domain200
Public domain textViollet-le-Duc, Discourses on Architecture (trans. 1875)public domain200
Public domain textVitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture (trans. Morgan, 1914) local copypublic domain200
Public domain textWilliam Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art (1882) local copypublic domain200
Citation (library)Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays (Ariadne Press, 1998)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 2000)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Alan Colquhoun, Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art, 2002)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1982 trans.)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Beatriz Colomina, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Ching, Jarzombek, Prakash, A Global History of Architecture, 3rd ed. (Wiley, 2017)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Daniel Schodek and Martin Bechthold, Structures, 7th ed. (Pearson, 2013)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Edward Allen and Joseph Iano, Fundamentals of Building Construction, 7th ed. (Wiley, 2019)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Francis D. K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order, 4th ed. (Wiley, 2014)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, The International Style (1932)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Joan Ockman, ed., Architecture Culture 1943 to 1968: A Documentary Anthology (Rizzoli, 1993)library or purchase200
Citation (library)K. Michael Hays, ed., Architecture Theory since 1968 (MIT Press, 1998)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, 5th ed. (Thames and Hudson, 2020)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Kenneth Frampton, Towards a Critical Regionalism, in Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic (1983)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture (Internet Archive record; borrow terms apply)library loan200
Citation (library)Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis, Critical Regionalism (Prestel, 2003)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Louis Kahn, Essential Texts, ed. Robert Twombly (Norton, 2003)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Mabel O. Wilson, Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian, 2016)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Marc-Antoine Laugier, An Essay on Architecture (trans. Herrmann, 1977)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design (1936; Penguin eds.)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment (1969)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (MoMA, 1966)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Ulrich Conrads, ed., Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture (MIT Press, 1971)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Venturi, Scott Brown, Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas (MIT Press, 1972)library or purchase200
Citation (library)William J. R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, 3rd ed. (Phaidon, 1996)library or purchase200
Tool or referenceArchitecture 2030 (embodied and operational carbon resources)free200
Tool or referenceBauhaus-Archiv / Museum fur Gestaltung, Berlinfree200
Tool or referenceBlender (free 3D modeling)free, open source200
Tool or referenceCanadian Centre for Architecturefree200
Tool or referenceLadybug Tools (open-source environmental analysis)free, open source200
Tool or referenceNAAB, accreditation body for US professional architecture degreesfree info200
Tool or referenceNCARB, Architect Registration Examination (licensure path, US)free info200
Tool or referenceWhole Building Design Guide (NIBS)free200
Database or archiveLibrary of Congress, HABS/HAER/HALS measured drawingspublic domain (US government work)403
Database or archiveMoMA collection online (architecture and design)free403
Database or archiveSAH Archipedia (Society of Architectural Historians)free403

Electrical Engineering (111)

TypeResourceAccessCheck
School sourceBrown, Sc.M. in Electrical and Computer Engineeringfree200
School sourceColumbia EE, MS elective specializationsfree403
School sourceColumbia Engineering, Electrical Engineering MS (catalog)
30 points, at least 15 at the 6000 level.
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School sourceCornell ECE, M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineeringfree200
School sourceCornell, ECE M.Eng. (catalog)
30 credits incl. two-semester design project.
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School sourceDartmouth Engineering, M.Eng. Electrical/Computer trackfree200
School sourceHarvard SEAS, Electrical Engineering graduate program (PhD)
No standalone terminal EE master's found.
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School sourceHarvard SEAS, SM and ME degreesfree200
School sourceOxford Engineering Science, course structure (4-year MEng)
Oxford's EE teaching sits in the integrated undergraduate MEng; no taught EE MSc found.
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School sourceOxford Engineering Science, postgraduate studyfree200
School sourcePenn ESE, MSE in Electrical Engineering
10 course units, 5 core across devices/nano, circuits/computer engineering, information/decision systems.
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School sourcePenn catalog, Electrical Engineering MSEfree200
School sourcePrinceton Graduate School, Electrical and Computer Engineering
M.Eng.: eight graded technical courses, four at 500 level.
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School sourceStanford EE, MS admissions overviewfree200
School sourceStanford EE, MS program (Stanford Bulletin)
45 units: 12 depth units in one area, 9 breadth, 15 technical; no thesis.
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School sourceYale GSAS, Electrical and Computer Engineeringfree200
Video18.06 Lecture 1: The Geometry of Linear Equations (MIT OCW, Strang)free200
Video6.002 Lecture 1 (MIT OCW, Agarwal)free200
Video6.013 Lecture 1 (MIT OCW)free200
Video6.041 Lecture 1: Probability Models and Axioms (MIT OCW)free200
Video6.450 Lecture 1 (MIT OCW, Gallager)free200
Video8-bit CPU control logic, Part 1 (Ben Eater)free200
VideoA Historical Perspective on Semiconductors and Moore's Law (Stanford)free200
VideoBut what is a Fourier series? (3Blue1Brown)free200
VideoBut what is a Laplace Transform? (3Blue1Brown)free200
VideoBut what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction (3Blue1Brown)free200
VideoDiscrete-Time Signal Processing, course about video (MITx on edX)free200
VideoEE261 Lecture 1 (Stanford, Osgood)free200
VideoEE263 Lecture 1 (Stanford, Boyd)free200
VideoEE364A Convex Optimization I, Lecture 1, 2023 (Stanford Online, Boyd)free200
VideoPower Electronics Lecture 1: Introduction (MIT OCW)free200
VideoPower Electronics Lecture 2: Analysis Methods and Rectifiers (MIT OCW)free200
VideoRES.6-007 Lecture 1, Introduction (MIT OCW, Oppenheim)free200
VideoWhy build an entire computer on breadboards? (Ben Eater)free200
Video seriesFundamentals of Semiconductor Devices (NPTEL, IISc Bengaluru, playlist)free200
Open course or text3Blue1Brown, Essence of Calculusfree200
Open course or text3Blue1Brown, Essence of Linear Algebrafree200
Open course or textAllen Downey, Think DSPCC BY-NC200
Open course or textAstrom and Murray, Feedback Systems (free wiki and PDF)free from authors200
Open course or textBen Eater, 8-bit breadboard computer projectfree200
Open course or textBoyd and Vandenberghe, Convex Optimization, free PDFfree PDF from authors200
Open course or textBoyd and Vandenberghe, Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra (VMLS), free PDFfree PDF from authors200
Open course or textEllingson, Electromagnetics, Volume 1 (Virginia Tech, open textbook)CC BY-SA200
Open course or textEllingson, Electromagnetics, Volume 2 (Virginia Tech, open textbook)CC BY-SA200
Open course or textJulius O. Smith III, Mathematics of the DFT (Stanford CCRMA)free online200
Open course or textKuphaldt, Lessons in Electric Circuits (all volumes)Design Science License (free)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 18.02SC Multivariable Calculusfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 18.03 Differential Equationsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 18.06 Linear Algebra (Strang)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 18.085 Computational Science and Engineering Ifree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.002 Circuits and Electronics (Agarwal)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.003 Signals and Systems (Fall 2011)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.004 Computation Structuresfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.007 Electromagnetic Energy: From Motors to Lasersfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.011 Communication, Control, and Signal Processingfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.012 Microelectronic Devices and Circuitsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.013 Electromagnetics and Applicationsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.01SC Introduction to EECS Ifree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.041 Probabilistic Systems Analysisfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.061 Introduction to Electric Power Systemsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.111 Introductory Digital Systems Laboratoryfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.241J Dynamic Systems and Controlfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.301 Solid-State Circuitsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.302 Feedback Systemsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.334 Power Electronics (2007)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.341 Discrete-Time Signal Processingfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.374 Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuitsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.432 Stochastic Processes, Detection, and Estimationfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.450 Principles of Digital Communications I (Gallager)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.622 Power Electronics (Spring 2023)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.630 Electromagneticsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.685 Electric Machinesfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.720J Integrated Microelectronic Devicesfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW 6.776 High Speed Communication Circuitsfree (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textMIT OCW RES.6-007 Signals and Systems (Oppenheim)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textNand2Tetris (Nisan and Schocken), free course materialsfree200
Open course or textOpen Yale Courses (index)free (CC BY-NC-SA)200
Open course or textOpenStax, Calculus Volume 3CC BY-NC-SA200
Open course or textOpenStax, University Physics Volume 2 (electricity and magnetism)CC BY200
Open course or textRobert Gallager, course notes and books (MIT)free online200
Open course or textStanford Engineering Everywhere EE261 The Fourier Transform and its Applications (Osgood)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textStanford Engineering Everywhere EE263 Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems (Boyd)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textStanford Engineering Everywhere EE364A Convex Optimization I (Boyd)free (OCW: CC BY-NC-SA; SEE: free materials)200
Open course or textSteven W. Smith, The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to DSPfree online200
Open course or textTexas Instruments, Basic Calculation of a Buck Converter's Power Stage (SLVA477B)free200
Open course or textTexas Instruments, Understanding Operational Amplifier Specifications (SLOA011B)free200
Open course or textnanoHUB (Purdue), device simulation and coursesfree account200
Citation (library)Adel Sedra and Kenneth Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 8th ed. (Oxford, 2019)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Alan Oppenheim and Alan Willsky, Signals and Systems, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 1997)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Alan Oppenheim and Ronald Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, 3rd ed. (Pearson, 2010)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey Lang, Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits (Morgan Kaufmann, 2005)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Behzad Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, 2nd ed. (McGraw Hill, 2017)library or purchase200
Citation (library)David Harris and Sarah Harris, Digital Design and Computer Architecture (Morgan Kaufmann)library or purchase200
Citation (library)David Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 4th ed. (Wiley, 2012)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis, Introduction to Probability, 2nd ed. (Athena, 2008)library or purchase200
Citation (library)John Proakis and Masoud Salehi, Digital Communications, 5th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2008)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, The Art of Electronics, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 2015)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Robert Erickson and Dragan Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 3rd ed. (Springer, 2020)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Robert Pierret, Semiconductor Device Fundamentals (Addison-Wesley, 1996)library or purchase200
Tool or referenceCVXPY (convex optimization in Python)free200
Tool or referenceEDA Playground (browser HDL simulation)free200
Tool or referenceFalstad circuit simulator (browser)free200
Tool or referenceGNU Octavefree200
Tool or referenceJupyterfree200
Tool or referenceKiCad (open-source PCB design)free200
Tool or referenceLTspice (free SPICE from Analog Devices)free000
Tool or referenceNCEES, PE Electrical and Computer examfree200
Tool or referenceNandGame (browser logic puzzles)free200
Tool or referencePythonfree200
Tool or referenceYosys open synthesis suitefree200
Tool or referencengspice (open-source SPICE simulator)free403

Troubadours (94)

TypeResourceAccessCheck
School sourceBrown, ENGL 1360U Europe in the Vernacular
Upper-level undergraduate; includes troubadours.
free200
School sourceColumbia, MUSI GU4122 Songs of the Troubadours (Susan Boynton, Fall 2024)
Graduate seminar: analysis, manuscript transcription, weekly work in Paden's Introduction to Old Occitan.
free200
School sourceCornell, Judith Peraino faculty page (graduate course: The Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres)
Course named on faculty page; no current syllabus found.
free200
School sourceHarvard, COMP LIT 193 Love Poetry of the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (Fall 2025)
Includes Provencal troubadour lyric within a comparative survey.
free403
School sourceKing's College London, The Troubadours and their Legacy (module, for comparison)
Not in scope list; included as a useful comparator.
free200
School sourceOxford TORCH, Old Occitan Literature Workshop (2024)
Read troubadour lyric and vidas; Chanson de Sainte Foy.
free200
School sourceOxford, MSt in Medieval Studies (Old Occitan among compulsory language options)free403
School sourcePenn, COML/FREN/ITAL 6381 Troubadours at the Center (Wendy Pfeffer, Fall 2023 syllabus)
Full graduate syllabus: Akehurst and Davis, Gaunt and Kay, Paden, Grains of Gold; bibliography, book review, abstract, term paper, conference talk.
free200
School sourcePoetry at Harvard, Troubadours
Overview essay; corpus of 2500+ texts and about 240 melodies.
free403
School sourcePrinceton, FRE 509 The Troubadours and the Occitan Tradition (Sarah Kay)
Registrar data mirror (a student project site); describes Old Occitan, microfilms/facsimiles, theory of desire and knowledge.
free200
School sourceStanford, FRENCH 205 Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics
Troubadours, trouveres, dolce stil novo; manuscripts and female voices.
free200
School sourceYale French, graduate seminars (FREN 8150 Medieval Lyric, Fall 2026)
Butterfield and Webb; Arnaut Daniel, Thibaut de Navarre, Gace Brule, Adam de la Halle, Dante.
free200
School sourceYale Summer Session, MUSI S121E 1000 Years of Love Songs (draft syllabus PDF)
Undergraduate summer course; week 1 is troubadour song.
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VideoArnaut Daniel, Lo ferm voler qu'el cor m'intra (Sequentia)free200
VideoBernart de Ventadorn, Can vei la lauzeta mover, hurdy-gurdy and voice (Zuberoa Aznarez)free200
VideoBernart de Ventadorn, Can vei la lauzeta mover, with MS fr. 844 score (Early Music Scores)free200
VideoBertran de Born, D'un sirventes no m cal far loignor ganda (Modern Language Association)free200
VideoComtessa de Dia, A chantar m'er de so (Jordi Savall)free200
VideoGuilhem IX, Farai un vers de dreyt nien (New Orleans Musica da Camera)free200
VideoIntroduction to Troubadours: Arnaut Daniel's Lo ferm voler and its afterlife (lecture)free200
VideoJaufre Rudel, Lanquan li jorn (Dominique Vellard)free200
VideoMarcabru, L'autrier jost'una sebissa (performance)free200
VideoNuits Occitanes: Songs of the Troubadours (Ensemble Celadon, album trailer)free200
VideoPeire Cardenal, Un sirventes novel vueill comensar (Jordi Savall)free200
VideoPurgatory XXIV, XXV, XXVI (Open Yale Courses, Mazzotta; Arnaut Daniel in Dante)free200
VideoRaimbaut de Vaqueiras, Kalenda maya (Martin Best Mediaeval Ensemble)free200
VideoReading a poem by Guilhem IX in Occitan (BRLSI)free200
VideoStolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French (Columbia Maison Francaise lecture)free200
VideoThe Mystery of the Cathars (The Rest Is History, popular history podcast)free200
VideoThibaut de Champagne, Ausi conme unicorne sui (Trefoil)free200
VideoThibaut de Champagne, Seignor, sachiez qui or ne s'en ira (crusade song)free200
VideoTrobairitz: Women Poets from Twelfth-Century Southern France (UA German Department lecture)free200
VideoWhat is Gallica? (BnF)free200
Public domain textAlfred Jeanroy, ed., Les chansons de Guillaume IX (1913), Occitan text with French translationpublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textAntoine Thomas, ed., Poesies completes de Bertran de Born (1888)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textBarbara Smythe, Trobador Poets (1911), English translations local copypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textCamille Chabaneau, Les biographies des troubadours (1885), Occitan vidas and razos local copypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textCarl Appel, Provenzalische Chrestomathie (1902), texts and glossarypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textDante, De vulgari eloquentia (1917 edition)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textEzra Pound, The Spirit of Romance (1910)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textFrancis Hueffer, The Troubadours: A History of Provencal Life and Literature (1878) local copypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textHarriet Waters Preston, Troubadours and Trouveres, New and Old (1876) local copypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textIda Farnell, The Lives of the Troubadours (1896), English translations of vidas local copypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textJohn F. Rowbotham, The Troubadours and Courts of Love (1895)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textJustin H. Smith, The Troubadours at Home, vol. 1 (1899)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textJustin H. Smith, The Troubadours at Home, vol. 2 (1899)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textKarl Bartsch, Chrestomathie provencale with grammar and glossary (1892)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textKarl Bartsch, Chrestomathie provencale, 6th ed. rev. Koschwitz (1904), texts plus glossarypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textKarl Bartsch, Grundriss zur Geschichte der provenzalischen Literatur (1872), the basis of PC numberingpublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textPaul Meyer, ed., La chanson de la croisade contre les Albigeois (1875)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textRaynouard, Choix des poesies originales des troubadours, vol. 3 (1818)public domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textRaynouard, Lexique roman, vol. 3 (1840s), dictionary of the troubadour languagepublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textS. Baring-Gould, In Troubadour-Land (1891), travel and local historypublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Public domain textVincenzo Crescini, Manualetto provenzale (1905), grammar and textspublic domain (US); OCR quality varies200
Citation (library)Boutiere and Schutz, Biographies des troubadours (Nizet, 1964)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Bruckner, Shepard, White, Songs of the Women Troubadours (Garland, 1995)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Elizabeth Aubrey, The Music of the Troubadours (Indiana, 1996)library or purchase200
Citation (library)F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis, eds., A Handbook of the Troubadours (California, 1995)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Frederick Goldin, Lyrics of the Troubadours and Trouveres (Anchor, 1973)library or purchase200
Citation (library)James Thomas, ed., Grains of Gold: An Anthology of Occitan Literature (Francis Boutle, 2015)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Janet Shirley, trans., The Song of the Cathar Wars (Ashgate, 1996)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Judith Peraino, Giving Voice to Love (Oxford, 2011)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Linda Paterson, The World of the Troubadours (Cambridge, 1993)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Maria Rosa Menocal, The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (Penn, 1987)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Mark Pegg, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade (Oxford, 2008)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Martin de Riquer, Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos (Ariel, 1975)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Meg Bogin, The Women Troubadours (Norton, 1976)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Michel Zink, ed., Les troubadours: une histoire poetique (Perrin, 2013)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Robert Kehew, ed., Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours (Chicago, 2005)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Rosenberg, Switten, Le Vot, Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres: An Anthology (Garland, 1998)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Sarah Kay, Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry (Penn, 2013)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Sarah Kay, Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry (Cambridge, 1990)library or purchase200
Citation (library)Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay, eds., The Troubadours: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1999)library or purchase200
Citation (library)UC Press page for A Handbook of the Troubadourspurchase200
Citation (library)W. A. Sibly and M. D. Sibly, trans., The History of the Albigensian Crusade (Boydell, 1998)library or purchase200
Citation (library)William Burgwinkle, Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus (Garland, 1997)library or purchase200
Citation (library)William D. Paden, An Introduction to Old Occitan (MLA, 1998)library or purchase200
Tool or referenceMHRA Style Guide (free)free200
Database or archiveArlima, manuscript notice for BnF fr. 844free200
Database or archiveCorpus des Troubadours (Institut d'Estudis Catalans)free200
Database or archiveDIAMM record for Paris BnF fr. 844 (Chansonnier du Roi)free200
Database or archiveDictionnaire de l'occitan medieval (DOM)free200
Database or archiveGallica, BnF fr. 22543, Chansonnier provencal (La Valliere, MS R; with melodies)free (BnF)403
Database or archiveGallica, BnF fr. 844, Chansonnier du Roi (MS W/M; troubadour and trouvere songs)
Ark confirmed through the DIAMM record for F-Pn fr. 844.
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Database or archiveLexilogos, Occitan dictionaries portal (links to Levy, Raynouard and others)free200
Database or archiveOpen Yale Courses HIST 210 The Early Middle Ages (Freedman), background to 1000free200
Database or archiveOpen Yale Courses ITAL 310 Dante in Translation (Mazzotta)free200
Database or archiveRialto: Repertorio informatizzato dell'antica letteratura trobadorica e occitana (critical texts and translations)free200
Database or archiveRomania (journal) on Persee, open archivefree archive200
Database or archiveTenso: Bulletin of the Societe Guilhem IX (JSTOR)library access200
Database or archiveWikisource (fr), Bernard de Ventadour author pagepublic domain texts200
Database or archiveWikisource (fr), Bertran de Born author pagepublic domain texts200
Database or archiveWikisource (fr), Jaufre Rudel author pagepublic domain texts200
Database or archiveWikisource in Occitan (main page)public domain texts200

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