Music Libraries
- Online Resources for Music Scholars
http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/music/resources/index.html
This site, located at Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard
University, contains links to scholarly societies and organizations, online
journals and newsletters, music databases and information resources, music
information meta-sites, library and music department home pages, and more.
- Indiana University William and Gayle Cook Music Library & Worldwide
Internet Music Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
This is one of the better sites on the Internet on the subject
of music, with links to Individual musicians, different genres and types of
music (barbershop music, chamber music coral music, country music, orchestral
music and more), areas of research and study (baroque music, early music,
music theory, and more) composers (Bach,Handel, Astor Piazzolla, Sibelius,
and more)and an extensive list of general music resources ( Classical Music
on the Web, Internet Music Resource Guide, Network USA, Music Resources–Penn
Library, and more). There are links under the heading of The World of Commercial
Music, such as: composing and arranging services, instrument makers, music
publishers, music software, and more
- University of North Texas Music Library
http://www.library.unt.edu/music/
This site contains information about the University of North Texas
Music Library in Denton, Texas, plus links to important Internet resources.
- University of Virginia Music Library
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/
This is a great directory of music resources on the Web. It
has links to composers, organizations, performance, and theory and composition.
It has research links to early music, electronic music, film music,
folk, national and world music, jazz and blues, music education and coursework,
music onstage: musical theatre and opera, popular music: rock, rap,
and hip-hop, vocal music: choral music, song, and women in music. There
are lists of bibliographies, and a list of electronic journals about music,
a list of links to other subject music directories and more.
- Yale Music Library: Music Resources on the World Wide Web
http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm
This is a list of links on the Internet on music topics, such as: early music, band music, composers, copyright,
country music, dance, hymns, instruments, radio music, sheet music collections, organizations, periodicals, television
music and wedding music.
- Columbia University Music Library: Selected Internet Resources in Music
and the Arts http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/music/offsite.html
This is digital library of links to music resources on the Internet. There
are links to composition, ejournals, ethnomusicology, historical musicology,
music education, music theory, online audio, and popular music and jazz.
- Public Domain Music
http://www.pdinfo.com
"A reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music . . . royalty free music
you can use anywhere and any way you choose . . . performance, sing-along, film, video, advertising, business,
or personal."
- MusicSearch.com
http://www.musicsearch.com/
The Internet's Music-only search site
- Sibelius Academy Music Resources
http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
"The Sibelius Academy is the only music university in Finland and one of the biggest in Europe. In
addition to providing the highest education in the field of music, it engages in performance and creative
art and research and is committed to the fostering of Finland's musical culture and cultural heritage.
It also seeks active collaboration with Finnish society and participates in the development of culture."
http://www.siba.fi/en/
It music resources web page contains many useful links to music resources on the Internet.
- Alternate Music Press: An Online Music Archive
http://www.alternatemusicpress.com/amp.html
AMP is an online music archive with a World-Wide readership.
Since its inception in the spring of 1997, AMP has been visited by over six
million readers. During the first two years of existence, AMP appeared on
line promptly on the first day of each month. Since this is not a traditional
form of print media, we did some brainstorming. Why wait a month to get news
on albums, artists, and important music related information? Why not get the
information while it is happening - immediately? Instead of only being able
to access a select group of articles, as in the old monthly format, we now
present every interview, article, and review ever published in AMP. There
are nearly 800 reviews covering the latest acoustic, ambient, bluegrass, classical,
Celtic, electronic, world music, jazz, fusion, avant garde releases, and dozens
of interviews with some of the most influential musician/composers of our
time.
- The Muse's Muse: Songwriting Tips and Tools
http://www.musesmuse.com/
Musical Databases
- CAIRSS for Music
http://www.twu.ca/Library/cairss.htm
"CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music
psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Citations have been taken from 1,354 different journal
titles; 18 of which are primary journals, meaning that every article ever to appear is included."
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/
"DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation
topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical,
scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Containing more than 13,600 records, including the corrected and
updated contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (still available
for sale) and supplements contributed from musicological centers throughout the world, DDM-Online is browsable,
just as was possible in the earlier printed editions, but it is also fully searchable by author and or by as many
as three simultaneous keywords in any part of the record. The pages of DDM-Online are updated
periodically throughout the academic year. Since its opening to the public in September 1996,
DDM-Online has responded to more than 12,000,000 searches of its data."
- Music Education Resource Base/Canadian Music Index
http://www.fmpweb.hsd.uvic.ca/merb/
"MERB/CMI is a bibliographic database of more than 31,000 resources in music and music education
from 35 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the
present. The journals are fully indexed by title, author, and subject."
- Music Research Databases
http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/research.html
This is a list of music databases on the web maintained by William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.
- Opera del Vocabolario Italiano: OVI
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/OVI/
"Welcome to the ItalNet publication of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) textual database.
The production database contains 1849 vernacular texts (21.2 million words, 479,000 unique forms) the
majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The beta-test installation of
the database under PhiloLogic3 contains 1960 documents (see below). The verse and prose works include
early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and
obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. The OVI database was created to aid in
the compilation of an historical dictionary of the Italian language, the Tesoro della lingua italiana
delle origini, (portions of which are now available online). The fully-searchable ItalNet implementation
of the OVI database presented here has been produced in order to enable scholars around the world to
benefit from this rich textual resource."
Science of Music
Ethnomusicology
- Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, And World Music (Sebelius Academy, Finland)
http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/folk.html
- Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, And World Music (University of Washington)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html
Ethnomusiocology is, according to The New Oxford Companion
to Music, "A branch of musiocology in which special emphasis is given
to understanding music in its cultural context. It includes the study of non-Western
musical systems, as well as folk music and dance of the West, and popular
music....The term was coined in 1950 by Jaap Kunst to replace the label "comparative
musiocology"" These two sites above contain many links to ethnomusicology
sites on the Internet. The one ad the University is epically good.
- Ethnomusicology Sources on the Web
http://echarry.web.wesleyan.edu/ethno.html
Sheet Music
- Sheet Music Collection
http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html
This page from Duke University contains links to other sites that contain sheet music
- 8Notes
http://www.8notes.com
Free classical & traditional sheet music, free popular and jazz riffs, free music lessons, free music
resources.
- Indiana University Sheet Music Site
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/s/sheetmusic/
"Sheet music is held in several repositories at Indiana University. This web site allows
you to search some of the holdings from the Lilly Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music,
including those for which there are digitized images available."
- Historic American Sheet Music
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at
Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century
American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access
to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United
States between 1850 and 1920.
- UCLA Digital Library Sheet Music Project
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/apam
American Popular Songs in the form in which they were originally
published. The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a
research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States
from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level
through the UCLA Library Orion2 catalog, is one of the largest in the country,
numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements
for band and orchestra. The collection also includes 62,500 recordings on
disc, tape, and cylinder.
Music History
General
- Center For the History of Music Theory and Literature
http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl
- Smithsonian: Musical History
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/music.htm
Contains Recordings of different types of music, such as:
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Music at the National Museum of American
History, Smithsonian Performing Arts Calendar, Radio Smithsonian, Smithsonian
Polkas, America's Jazz Heritage. Also contains information on american
musicians, such as Duke Ellington , Louis Armstrong, Paul Collins and other
musicians. There are many links to information about musical instruments
- Women Composers
http://www.kapralova.org/DATABASE.htm
This is by no means the ultimate database of women composers. In fact, this list represents only a tiny fraction of more than
6000 women composers about whom a record exists (e.g. Aaron Cohen's Encyclopedia of Women Composers lists 6,196 women composers).
Only composers of classical music whose works have been recorded on compact disc have been included in this database. Composers are
listed in alphabetical order; their name is followed by their date of birth and country of origin. Where a link to online resources
exists it has also been provided.
Ancient Music
Medieval Music
- Early Music Network
http://www.earlymusic.net/
"Early Music Network provides the following free information and services to members or non-members:
- information and news about early music and historical performance from all over the world
- links to web sites of other early music organizations
- information about education in the early music field (colleges, summers schools, master classes etc.)
- recommended music and video recordings performed on period instruments and ability to order music on line
- services for musicians: instrument exchange, classifieds, concert organization
- servicing organization for early music ensembles, including concert organization, sale of tickets for early music concerts, festivals, magazines and courses all over the world
- interesting topics and discussions about early music issues"Information and services about early music and historical performance all
over the world
- The Gregorian Chant Homepage
http://www.music.princeton.edu/chant_html/
This site contains links to: Chant Research
Sites, Medieval Music Theory Sites, resources for Chant Performance Other
Chant Web Sites, Web Sites Helpful for Chant Researchers, such as: Ecclesiastical
Sciences, Historical and Humanistic Sciences and Information Sciences
- Gregorian Chant Notation
http://lphrc.org/Chant/
Explains how to read Gregorian Chant Music
- CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus
- Cantus Planus
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_I/Musikwissenschaft/cantus/
- La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/MMDB/
This database contains a listing of over 70,000 medieval music pieces and sometimes the text of the piece and sometimes al source where the
music can be obtained.
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Contains a list of links to resources on the Internet about many aspects of the medieval period, including
links to music resources.
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
http://www.diamm.ac.uk/
"The purpose of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) is to obtain and
archive directly-captured digital images of European sources of medieval polyphonic music. Where there is
damage that makes these sources difficult to read, levels of digital restoration are also undertaken on
copies of the original images to improve legibility and scholarly access."
Renaissance Period
Baroque Period
- GOTTFRIED SILBERMANN: Master Organ-Builder of the German Baroque
http://www.baroquemusic.org/silbeng.html
"Pictures, historical detail, locations
of thirty-one original instruments, a visit to the Silbermann Museum, Silbermann
organs on CD, plus all the info you need for a Grand Organ Tour!"
- Baroque Music Page
http://www.baroquemusic.org/
This site answers the questions of "What is baroque music?"
and Why it is so rewarding? It also has a Baroque Music Sampler, and Portraits
of Baroque Composers and Rare Baroque Instruments.
- Music History 102: the Baroque Age
http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/#baro
This is a music history series of articles
at the Internet Public Library
- Renaissance and Baroque and Classical Era Music: Composers
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2233/composer.htm
This is a part of a massive list of links to music resources put together by Dr. Gordon J. Callon of Arcadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia
- Baroque Aria
http://www.baroquearia.co.uk/
"Baroque Aria has been launched to offer arias from Baroque operas, serenatas,
dramme per musiche and cantatas which were much fêted in their day and still stand today as excellent
examples of the genre. You can preview, audition and purchase music, much of which is not available in any other place."
- Baroque Cantata
http://www.baroquecantata.com
Dedicated to the cantata repertoire, baroquecantata.com intends to further the
opportunities to research and perform this vast and fascinating genre."
- Baroque Opera
http://www.baroqueopera.co.uk/
"The baroque era...saw both the birth of opera as a musical form
and its growth into perhaps the most enduring musical genre. Of the thousands of operas which
were known to have been written in those 150 years, only a small percentage survive." This site contains information about the baroque
opera and its composers.
- The Porpora Project
http://www.porporaproject.com/
"A celebrated composer and singing teacher, Porpora's ability
to set the Italian language to music was internationally acknowledged during
his lifetime."
- The Durante Project
http://www.duranteproject.com/index.htm/
"Francesco Durante was a highly respected composer and teacher during the first half
of the 18th century in Naples. He chose to concentrate on sacred music rather than the more fashionable
opera composition favoured by other Neapolitans and his works became examples of 'good composition'
used for teaching."
- The Hasse Project
http://www.hasseproject.com/
Johann Adolph Hasse Il Sassone (1699 - 1783) was for a number of decades the most prolific
and popular composers of opera seria in Italy and German-speaking countries.....The Hasse Project plans to make more
of his music available through invaluable access to both autograph and copy scores of Hasse's works."
- The Scarlatti Project
http://www.scarlattiproject.com/
This website exists to share the music of Alessandro Scarlatti and his contemporaries through editions,
recordings, and discussion. It is based largely on the research of Rosalind Halton, Kate Eckersley, and James Sanderson."
- The J.S. Bach Homepage
http://www.jsbach.org/
This site contains a biography of Bach's life, a listing of his complete works, a list of recommended or not recommended
recordings of his works, and links to other sites with information on J.S. Bach.
- George Frederic Handel
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/handel.html
- George Frederic Handel 1685-1750
http://gfhandel.org/
"This web site ...is dedicated to the great baroque composer,
"il caro Sassone", George Frideric Handel....G.F. Handel was the consummate,
18th-century traveler, artiste, and entrepreneur. He was an independent
and strong-willed individual, and although he was approached several times
by royal patrons to become their court composer, Handel was hesitant to
professionally "settle down" until he was offered a position commensurate
with the status he felt he deserved." This site contains information on
Handel, information on recordings of his works, reviews of recordings of
his works, a discography, a list of concerts and festivals of Handel's music,
radio and television programs of his life and works,
- Handel's Messiah Through the Centuries
http://psg.com/~patf/handel/messiah.html
This is a paper written by Patrick N. Findlay while he was a student at University of Texas, and
published in Early Music News in 1999.
- Messiah by George Frederick Handel
http://ccel.org/h/handel/messiah/
This is the complete vocal score to Handel's Messiah
- Antonio Vivaldi: A Detailed Informative Biography
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxvivaldi.html
Classical Period
- Classical Composers Database
http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=_phome
This is a database of classical
composers, either dead or still living. There is some information about
each composer at this site, plus links to other sites on the Internet that
contain information about each composer.
- The Classical Music Navigator
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
"Welcome to The Classical Music Navigator, a new concept in classical music education!
... We have compiled information on important classical music composers and their works and arrayed these
data in a fashion making it easier for the novice or casual listener to identify additional materials that
are allied to his or her already-existing "points of familiarity." Let's take an example. Suppose you hear
the Ravel G major piano concerto on the radio, and take an immediate liking to it. Our database will help
you extend this interest to other music by making it possible for you to quickly identify: additional works
by Ravel, other piano concerti, other works for piano in general, other concerti in general, composers allied
to the same general period and style (Impressionism) as Ravel, other French composers, composers who influenced
Ravel, and composers influenced by Ravel."
- Classical Net
http://www.classical.net
This site contains 6000 information
files about classical music. It contains information and recommendations
on classical music CD's. It also has over 4000 links to other Internet sites
dealing with: artists, publishers, composers, or classical music, early music,
music education, ensembles and orchestras, festivals and concerts, instruments
and instrument makers, opera, choral and vocal music links, and music schools
- The Mozart Project
http://www.mozartproject.org/
- The Mozart Institute--Neue Mozart Ausgabe
http://dme.mozarteum.at/mambo/index.php
Romantic Period
Modern Music/Twentieth Century Music
Popular Music
- American Popular Music before 1900
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/music-1.html
This site contains an overview of American history
through its music. It contains ballads, religious music, political songs,
ragtime, broadway, negro spirituals, wartime music, and more.
- American Roots Music
http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/
"Travel back through the 20th century to explore the roots of American
music... Blues, Country, Bluegrass, Gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, and Native American."
- I H ear America Singing
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/
Organizations
- American Musical Instrument Society
http://www.amis.org/
"The American Musical Instrument Society is an international organization
founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction,
restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods."
- American Musicological Society
http://www.ams-net.org/
This is the official AMS homepage. At this page,
you can find out information about the AMS, the AMS committees, Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology, and AMS publications. A very useful part
of the AMS page is the category: WWW sites of Interest to Musicologists,
which contains links to other sites on many topics, including: dissertations,
music libraries, music archives, music journals, dictionaries and encyclopedias,
music publishing sites, music societies and organizations, opera and song,
orchestras, choirs, ensembles, church music, early music, instruments,
composers and composition, music theory, computer music and electronic
music, rock and pop music, jazz, folk music and ethnomusicology, music
in Latin America, women in music, and music education.
- Society for Seventeenth Century Music
http://www.arts.uci.edu/sscm/
This page contains information about the Society and
links to important Internet sites in seventeenth century music
- Chamber Music America
http://www.chamber-music.org/
- Early Music Institute
http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/emi
"The Early Music Institute at Indiana University's School
of Music provides a comprehensive program in the study of historical performance
on original instruments of music before ca.1800"
- The Gregorian Association (London, England)
http://www.beaufort.demon.co.uk/chant.htm
- The Handel and Haydn Society
http://www.handelandhaydn.org/
- The International Alliance for Women in Music
http://www.iawm.org/
- Society for Music Theory
http://www.societymusictheory.org/
"The Society for Music Theory was founded in 1977. The Society holds annual meetings,
publishes two journals (Music Theory Spectrum and Music Theory Online), and encourages scholarly excellence
by giving awards for outstanding publications in music theory. We also work to increase the diversity of
our discipline and to promote fruitful exchanges between music theorists, musicologists, performers,
and scholars in other fields."
- The Music Library Association
http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org
"Founded in 1931, MLA is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and all aspects of music materials in libraries."
- Society for Ethnomusicology
http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/home.cfm
- Musical Organizations and Professional Societies
http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/societ.html
This is a part of the Indiana University School of Music web site and contains links to over 300
musical organizations worldwide.
Music Departments at Colleges
Musical Instruments
PIANO
- Pianopedia
http://www.pianopedia.com/
Contains a list of piano compositions of many composers and publishing information.
- Piano.com
http://www.piano.com/welcome/index.cfm
"Piano.com is the piano enthusiasts ultimate resource for locating piano-related information on the Internet.
Piano.com has the most comprehensive set of links available anywhere. Whether you are a professional, a classical or jazz pianist,
a student or a piano hobbyist, Piano.com has everything you need."
- History of the Piano
http://www.uk-piano.org/history/history.html
STRING INSTRUMENTS
VIOLIN
CELLO
PERCUSSION
FLUTE
CLARINET
TRUMPET
FRENCH HORN
TROMBONE
Different Genres of Music
Music has evolved and divided into many different forms, or genres, since the beginning of time. Here is a listing of some of the many different
genres of music:
SACRED & RELIGIOUS
CLASSICAL
OPERA
COUNTRY
FOLK
- Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
http://www.missouristate.edu/folksong/maxhunter/index.html
"The Max Hunter Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded
between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder
into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories
of many generations of Ozark history. As important as the songs themselves are the voices of the Missouri and Arkansas
folks who shared their talents and recollections with Hunter. Designed to give increased public access to this unique and
invaluable resource, this site is a joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the
Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri, where the permanent collection is housed."
- Folkworld: The Home of European Music
http://www.folkworld.de/
This site proclaims that it is probably the biggest European folk music resource on the internet." It contains
editorials, news and gossip, letters to the editor, CD and book reviews, and articles and live reports. The magazine is
in both English and German.
JAZZ
ROCK
- The History of Rock-n-Roll
http://www.history-of-rock.com
"This web page attempts to explore the roots of rock
in such a way as to illuminate the natural progression of musical styles.
To often the study of rock begins with Bill Haley and His Comets and includes
scant information about the blues and rhythm records that he, and others,
used as a model. A musical genre does not simply appear, it gradually
evolves to a point in time when some event-performance, publication, or
recording allows listeners to perceive its unique qualities and apply
label. Wyonnie Harris' 1947 recording of "Good Rocking Tonight" was one
of many "rhythm records" made during the late 1940s, however when it was
recorded by Elvis Presley in 1954 it seemed like a new and different approach.
What made it seem new and different was its context. Without exploring
the history of black popular music, country and western music, race relations,
technical developments, and the music business one can be led easily to
the conclusion that rock and roll was some new and different music which
appeared suddenly."
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
http://www.rockhall.com/
SOUL
RAP
GOSPEL
CHORAL
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