Online Music Resources

• Aaron Copland Collection. The Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth of the American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990).
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• African Music Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Mainz, Germany)
• All-music Guide. Links to all types of music and biographical information on artists.
• American Music Resource. Provides a multi-dimensional source of reference information about all styles of music indigenous to the Western Hemisphere. 
• Anglican Church Music. This site aims to be a central source of information for Anglican and Episcopal church and cathedral music, with resources for church musicians, singers, congregation members, or anyone who enjoys this kind of music.
• Archiv für Oberschwaebische Klostermusik (maintained by Rainer Naegele, Württembergische Landesbibliothek)
• Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music.  The abstracts relate both to completed dissertations and to those in progress.
• Argus Music Searcher. Search web pages, newsgroups, encyclopedias, magazines (including reviews from Rolling Stone), and books (especially good for popular music).
• Aria Database. Opera sites are organized by category and have a small description with them.
• Arto Wikla's Music Page (Early Music: focus on instruments)
• ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Includes a searchable database, ACE, of the ASCAP repertory.
• J.S. Bach Archive and Bibliography
• Bach Bibliography
• Band Music from the Civil War Era from Music Division of the Library of Congress
• Beethoven Bibliography Database
• Bach Cantatas (original German texts of most of Bach's vocal works maintained by Walter F. Bischof)
• Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame
• BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc.. Includes the BMI Music Repertory Database of 7.5 million items for whom they handle composer and publisher rights.
• British Song
• Canadian Music Periodical Index
• CANTUS : A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
• Center for Black Music Research (Columbia College Chicago)
• Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (Stanford University)
• Clara Schumann Home Page (David Kenneth Smith)
• clásica - A compendium of classical music links. Guide to classical music performance & recordings.
• Classic Music Archives. The Classical Archives is the largest classical music site on the web.
• Classical Composers' Archive. Has good information that is condensed, categorized by year and country with interesting year graphs, and nice pictures for program notes; multiple recommendations. 
• Classical Composers Database
• Classical Midi with Words. Featuring art songs with synchronized lyrics and translations.
• ClassicalNet
• Classical Recordings Collection Building, Label Pages, and Dealers (University of Washington Music Library)
• A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists. 
• A Collection of Selected Lutheran Hymnals
• The Commercial World of Music (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• Composers (University of Washington Music Library)
• Composers and Composition (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• Concert Web Music Archive. Offers, according to its author, Jay Schankman, "hundreds upon hundreds" of indexed/alphabetized links to all kinds of music sites on the Web.
• Copyright (University of Washington Music Library)
• CPDL - A Free Sheet Music Archive. The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is the largest website devoted exclusively to free choral sheet music.
• Dictionary of American Hymnology (Oberlin College)
• Digital Music Collections (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library)
• Directories (University of Washington Music Library)
• Directory to Musical Organizations, Societies, and Clubs on the Web (University of Washington Music Library)
• Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations (ProQuest) (FSU users)
• Dissertations in Music Theory. This index includes announcements of completed and in-progress dissertations that have appeared in Music Theory Online. 
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology - Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature. An online index.
• Dom Mocquereau Collection (Catholic University of America)
• Duckles 5, Electronic Resources in (includes updated links since the printing of this classic Reference Work)
• Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index
• Early Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• Early Music Archives (Gopher)
• Early Music by Women Composers
• Early or Historical Sound Recordings Collections (University of Washington Music Library)
• Electronic and Computer Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• Electronic Bibliographies Resource List (University of Washington Music Library)
• Electronic Dictionaries Resource List (University of Washington Music Library)
• Electronic Directories Resource List (University of Washington Music Library)
• Electronic Indexes Resource List (University of Washington Music Library)
• Electronic Texts and Documents (University of Washington Music Library)
• Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
• Ethnomusicology Online - A peer-reviewed multimedia Web journal
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• Euromusic. European music on the web.
• EveryNote.Com.  Digital piano sheet music library.  Pay to download sheet music, most in the public domain.
• European Free Improvisation. Begun in January 1995, EFIP is a comprehensive information resource for all aspects of the type of music known as European Free Improvisation.
• FestivalFinder A searchable database of music festivals in North America, all genres.
• Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (Library of Congress)
• Film and TV Music Resources (University of Washington Music Library)
• folkmusic.org. The most comprehensive source for folk and acoustic music resources on the World Wide Web. 
• Fourteenth Century Music Databases. This database is a systematic collection of scores, color images, texts and bibliographic information of medieval music which can be searched by text or melody and which will return musical information in the form of a modern score, text data and, where available, a color facsimile of an original manuscript. 
• Free sheet music, free music lessons, popular, classical , jazz and traditional sheet music pieces and riffs, free music resources.
• General music resources (Cook Music Library, Indiana Universtiy)
• Genres and Types of Music (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
• Gregorian Chant Home Page (Princeton University)
• Groups and Ensembles (Except Popular) (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Resources
• Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920 (Duke University)
• HymnSite.Com  The United Methodist Hymnal, 1989
• Image Collections (University of Washington Music Library)
• Indexes and Concordances to Works of C. P. E. Bach (David Schulenberg)
• Individual Musicians (All Genres) and Popular Groups (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• Information about Instruments (University of Washington Music Library)
• Institute for Music Research (Music Education, Music Therapy, and Music Psychology)
• Instrument Jokes
• The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
• International Computer Music Association
• International Lyrics Server
• Internet Resources for Music Scholars. Maintained by the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University.
• Jammin Reggae Archives. The Gateway to Reggae Music on the Internet.
• Jazz Research Portal - University of North Texas, includes links to meta sites, jazz programs, archives, and artists sites.
• JazzWeb - From WNUR-FM, Northwestern University, includes artist biographies and a collection of jazz links on the web.
• Musica: International Database of Choral Repertoire.  Project of the
  International Federation for Choral Music. 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.
• International Stiftung Mozarteum.  Includes the complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Italian Music Home Page (maintained by Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi)
• Jazz and Blues (University of Washington Music Library)
• Johannes Brahms WebSource (Mary I. Ingraham)
• Journals and Magazines (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• The Labyrinth - WWW Server for Mediaeval Studies
• The Lied and Songs Texts Page (first-line index and full texts of solo vocal pieces)
• Lutes, Old and New. 
• Machaut on the Web (International Machaut Society)
• Marching and Concert Bands, Brass Bands and Drum Corps (University of Washington Music Library)
• Medical Issues in Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• The Midi Farm. A Site of Sites - a place on the Web where others have home pages, provided that the subject matter has something to do with MIDI/Computer Music. Also contains links to other sites of relevance in the same field.
• Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (University of Copenhagen, Institute for Greek and Latin)
• The Mozart Project. The life, times and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Music Awards and Prizes (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Career Information (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Competitions and Contests (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Directories (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Education and Psychomusicology (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Education Online. 
• Music Files.  Sizeable catalogue of Sheet Music, MIDI files and MP3 files, together with informative content in the form of articles, reviews and reference material about composers and their music.
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress)
• Music History (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music History Resources. Based on A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout and Claude Palisca.
• A Music History & Studies - Composers. Links to sites on composers.
• Music humor (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• Music Information Centers (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Information Centres on the Web
• Music Information Meta-Sites (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library)
• Music Information Resources. Music meta-site from the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
• Music Jokes. Collection of jokes related to music.
• Music Libraries and Music Library Association (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music of the Fourteenth Century: Databases (Latrobe University)
• Music Publishers and Dealers (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Publishers' and Vendors' Sites (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library)
• Musical Recordings (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music-Related Graphic Images
• Music Research Sites. School of Music. Florida State University.
• Music Resources. Compiled by Sibelius Academy.
• Music Resources on the Internet. An extensive collection of free music graphics and annotated links to music information, resources, graphics, newsgroups, discussion lists, organizations, publications, and more.
• Music Schools Database (University of Alabama)
• Music Software (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Theory (University of Washington Music Library)
• Music Therapy (University of Washington Music Library)
• MuSICA: The Music and Science Information Computer Archive
• Musical Scores and Sheet Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• Musicals (Broadway & Hollywood) & Operettas (University of Washington Music Library)
• Musicians and Injuries
• National Archives and Records Administration
  • NARA Home Page
  • Audiovisual Information Record Locator Database (NAIL) The NAIL database contains 81,000 series and item-level descriptions of material held by the Still Picture Branch and the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch , as well as information about ordering copies.
• Database of Mozart Sources (maintained by the editorial board of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe)
• National Association of Composers, USA.   It is one of the oldest organizations devoted to the promotion and performance of American music.
• New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (FSU users - on order)
• News Resources (University of Washington Music Library)
• 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Norwegian Music Information Centre
• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (Library of Congress)
• Operabase
• OperaGlass
• Opera Libretti Page - Full texts of operas, choral, and vocal works, with links to related resources.
• Popular Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• Quellen der Bach-Werke: Datenbank der Werke J. S. Bachs und ihrer handschriftlichen Quellen bis 1850 (Gottinger Bach-Katalog)
• Recorded & Broadcast Opera Basic Dictionary. Edited by Mario Biondi, writer in Italy.
• The Recorder Home Page
• Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census (University of Michigan)
• RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
• Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census (RELICS)
• Research and Study (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• Resources for Music Educators. Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels.
• Root Source (The English Folk Dance and Song Society Directory of the Folk Arts)
• Sacred Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• saggi musicali italiani: A Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics (CHMTL, Indiana University)
• Scholarly Societies, Research Organizations, etc. (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library)
• Selected Music Sites (Sibley Music Library)
• Sheet Music (Duke University)
• Jean Sibelius
• The Sibelius Academy. Is the only music university in Finland. Its Website is well laid out and contains a trove of links to hundreds of music related sites... with, not surprisingly, a European flavor. Refreshingly, sites having to do with composition, technique, theory, and so forth, predominate, unlike other sites whose links favor electronic music toys and gadgets.
• Singers Resources (University of Western Ontario)
• Song Index Online - University of Tennessee.
• Song Lyrics and Libretti (Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
• Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (University of Utrecht)
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum Database for Latin Music Theory (CHMTL, Indiana University)
• TME: Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (CHMTL, Indiana University)
• The Ultimate Rock Cyclopedia. A full alphabetical listing of artists, giving band details, session details, brief biographies, photographs, links and much more.
• University of Jyväskylä: Research Project on Cognitive Musicology
• UTK Song Index (University of Tennessee)
• Variations Prototype: Online Musical Scores. Variations is a digital library system which provides access to over 7000 titles of near CD-quality digital audio to users at computer workstations in the Cook Music Library, located in the Simon Music Library and Recital Center at Indiana University Bloomington, and select locations on the IUB campus network.
• Virtual Music Libraries (University of Western Ontario)
• Vocal and Choral Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• Wagner Archive. Richard Wagner Archive.
• The Wedding Music Information Source
• What is Jazz? - Extensive selections from Dr. Billy Taylor's lecture series at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
• William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
• Women Composers: A Bibliography of Internet Resources. The purpose of this bibliography is to provide quick access to a variety of internet resources on women composers for both the amateur and the scholar by Tara Guthrie..
• Women in Music (University of Washington Music Library)
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources.  Compiled by William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music.
• WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists. WWW Sites compiled by the American Musicological Society.
• Yahoo - Listing of Music Resources.

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Last Updated: 12/14/06