The activities of CMRD are carried out through a variety of ongoing research projects, documentation centers, and publications. These abstracts are compiled from all scholarly works of musical literature and also include reviews, pedagogical manuals, and other publications that are of scholarly interest.
Coverage encompasses a wide variety of fields.
Iconography is a vast archive of musical images. It publishes the semiannual journal Music in Art . It publishes The Free-Reed Journal each fall. The Pergolesi Research Center is a resource center that is producing the new Complete Works of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Eleven volumes are currently available.