Music Subject Guide

General | American Music | Blues | Bluegrass | Choral Music | Church Music | Composers | Copyright and Licensing | Country Music | Digital Music Collections l Ethnomusicology | Folk Music | Gospel Music | Jazz | Journals | Music Education | Music Events | Music History | Music Stores | Music Theory | New Age Music | Opera | Orchestras | Rhythm and Blues | Rock and Roll Music | Sheet Music l World Music

General

• All Music Guide
• CAIRSS for Music: Database of Music Research Literature
• Ethnic and National Music (Indiana University)
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music and World Music (University of Washington)
• Grammy Awards
• International Lyrics Server
• Music Library Association Clearinghouse
  Includes directory of music publishers amid other information.
• Music Resources on the Internet (Indiana University) 
• Music Search
  Music only search site. Includes reviews.
• Scholarly Societies Project: Music (University of Waterloo)
• Sibelius Academy Music Resources

  American Music

• American Popular Music 1900-1950 (Kingwood College)
• American Popular Music to 1900 (Kingwood College)
• American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
  Database of writers, publishers, titles and performers.
• Archives of African American Music and Culture
• Archives of Traditional Music (Ethnographic Sound Archives)
• BMI
  Legislative updates, information about songs, photos and publishers.
• Classical Music on the Net
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online (DDM)
  AMS' list of dissertations since 1995.
• Early Music America
• Fasola Home Page
  Resources for information related to the tradition of Shape Note singing.
• Film Music (Indiana University)
• Musicals.net
  Everything associated with Broadway musicals
• Native American Home Page:Sources for Indian Music
• Native American Music Resources on the Internet
• Southern Music in the 20th Century
  History and links to music in the South.
  

  Bluegrass

• Cybergrass: Internet Bluegrass Music Magazine

  Blues

• B. B. King (Official Page)
• The Blue Highway
• BluesNet

  Choral Music

• ChoralNet
• Musica International Database of Choral Repertoire

  Church Music

• CANTUS: Gregorian Chant
• Gregorian Chant Home Page (Princeton University)

  Composers

• Bach Central Station
• J. S. Bach Home Page
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Official Leonard Bernstein
• Classical Composers Archive  (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
• Classical Composers Database
• Classical Net
• Composer Biographies
• Composer Links
• Composer Timeline
• George Friedric Handel Home Page
• Handel and Haydn Society
• The Mozart Project
• Rogers and Hammerstein Organization
• Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

  Copyright and Licensing

• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
• BMI
• Copyright Resource Center

  Country Music

• Hank Williams
• Johnny Cash

  Digital Music Collections

• 19th Century American Sheet Music (UNC, Chapel Hill)
• 19th Century California Sheet Music
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
• Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection (Mississippi State University)
• Chopin Early Editions (University of Chicago)
• Digital Scores from the Collections of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library (Harvard University)
• Hoagy Carmichael Collection (Indiana University)
• Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection (MIT)
• Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
• Library of Congress American Memory Collections
  • Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990
  • African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920 (from Brown University)
  • America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
  • American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
  • Band Music from the Civil War Era
  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.
  • Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
  • Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
  • Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
  • Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920 (from Duke University)
  • Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
  • Irving Fine Collection
  • Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
  • Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
  • Omaha Indian Music
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
  • "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
• Performing Arts in America 1875-1923 (New York Public Library)
• Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520 (Rob Wegman, Princeton University)
• Sheet Music Consortium: Sheet Music on the Web (UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University)
• University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection
• VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores (Indiana University)

• Ethnic and National Music (Indiana University)
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music and World Music (University of Washington)
• Latin American Music Center (Indiana University)

  Folk Music

• Folk Music
  Folk music resources, organizations, concerts, albums, and lyrics.
• Bob Dylan
  Database of published lyrics and audio samples of Dylan.
  

  Gospel Music

• Black Gospel Music Clef
• CC Music (Cotemporary Christian Music)
• Singing News Magazine

  Jazz

• Ella Fitzgerald
• All About Jazz
• Jazz Online
• Louis Armstrong
• World Wide Jazz Web

Journals

• Electronic Journals (University of Pennsylvania)
• Music, Journals and Magazines, Newspapers and Periodicals (University of Indiana)

  Music Education

   
• Music Education Online
  Guide to music education K-12.
• Resources for Music Educators
  Resources for music educators K-12 in all areas and at all levels.
• Teacherlink
  Teaching links including musical instruments.
• Web Resources for Study and Research in Music

  Music Events

• Billboard Online
  Daily music news and weekly charts.
• Concert Hotline (Pollstar)
  Comprehensive concert tour database.
• Festival Finder
  Music festivals of North America.
• Operabase
  Schedules of opera houses and festivals worldwide.
  

  Music History

  American Music

• American Musicological Society
• Sacred Harp Singing
  
  

  Early Music

• Arto Wikla's Music Page
• CANTUS
• Early Music
• Early Music America
• Early Music FAQ
• Early Music Shop
• Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
  Showcase of 12th - 17tj century replica instruments.
• Music of the 14th Century
• NetSERF: Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• Renaissance Instruments
• Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census
• Sixteenth Century Ballads
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML): Database for Latin Music Theory

  18th Century Music

• Classical Music-Classical Net Home Page
  Updates information on classical music and composers.

• BMG Music Services Online
• Brodt Music
  Internet source for printed music.
• CDnow
  Music store of U.S. albums and 6000 imports.
• H & B Catalog
• OCB Trading Post: Native American Music
• Sheet Music Online
  Online ordering and downloading of sheet music. Music Racks free download of public domain and educational resources.
• Tower Records

  Music Theory

• Journal of Music Theory
• Music Theory Online
• Society for Music Theory Home Page

  Opera

• Opera Glass
• Operabase
  Schedules, houses, festivals, reviews, and links.
• New York City Opera
  Information about the New York City opera plus excellent links to opera internet sites.
  

  Orchestras

• Orchestras (Indiana University)
  List of orchestras and web page addresses.
• Atlanta Symphony
• Boston Pops
• Boston Symphony
• New York Philharmonic
• Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
• Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
• San Francisco Symphony

  Rhythm and Blues

• Rhythm and Blues Foundation

  Rock and Roll Music

• Classic Rock Spot
• Electric Magic: Led Zeppelin on the Net
• Liverpool Beatles Album
• The Most Complete Pink Floyd Page
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Rolling Stone Magazine
• The Rolling Stones

Sheet Music

• 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - alphabetical listing

• 19th-Century California Sheet Music (Mary Kay Duggan, University of California Berkeley)

• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress: American Memory project)

• The Choral Public Domain Library

• Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection (Lewis Music Library, MIT)

• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music from 1870-1885 (Library of Congress: American Memory project)

• Sheet Music Collections from Duke University

• Wisconsin Sheet Music Database (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - searchable bibliographic information, no digitized music provided

          World Music

• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music and World Music (University of Washington)