General

Baroque Music Homepage
This site contains a number of links on Baroque music including information on performances, composers, musicians, recommended recordings and discussion of historical perspectives of Baroque. -cb

CAIRSS for Music (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System)
This is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.

Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature [Indiana University]
Offers electronic access to Doctoral Dissertations Online, music bibliographies, Saggi musicali Italiani, Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum and more for serious scholars of music. -cb

Classical Music MIDI Page
This site contains note-for-note accurate MIDI sound files of classical music from composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Handel, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and others. While access to the MIDi files is free,  this site does contain links to purchase music. -cb

Classical Net Homepage
Classical Net is one of largest sites of classical music, composer and works on the Internet. It contains the sheet music collection at John Hopkins University, composer page links and links to music organizations all over the world, a basic repertoire of the canon of classical works and modern performers currently playing the music of the masters. -cb

College Music Society, Music Arts and Education Links
The College Music Society is a consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in composition, ethnomusicology and world music, music education, music in general studies, musicology, performance, theory, and other fields. The Society is dedicated to gathering, considering, and disseminating ideas on the philosophy and practice of music. -cb 

Copyright for Music Librarians
This page offers clear guidelines concerning copyright issues for educators and and librarians.  It has been published by the Music Library Association and contains current updates. -cb

 Digital Music Collections, Ada Kuhn Loeb Music Library [Harvard College Library]
The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library is the primary repository of musical materials at Harvard. It includes about 62,000 books, 99,000 scores, 60,000 recordings, and nearly 900 periodical titles that support research in a wide variety of musical disciplines including historical musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, composition, and historically informed performance practice.

DW3 Classical Music Resources : Index
Extensive collection of classical music resources with links to many non-commercial pages/sites over a dozen languages. The site is created and maintained by Yale Fineman, User Services Librarian, Duke University Music Library.

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
"This electronic version of the 1992 edition describes Canada's musical heritage and culture. It includes popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well as Canadian music's educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects."- C Bruns.

Essentials of Music
This web has been created by the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, and contains music information in three categories: eras, composers, and glossary.

Gaylord Music Library Necrology File
Do you need to know if someone in the music field has died? The Gaylord Music Library at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, maintains a necrology index. Listing is alphabetical by last name and the file is updated daily. The entries are complied from a wide range of international music journals and includes the date, age at death if known and the source. -cb

Gramophone
Classical music reviews, interviews, analysis, and audio equipment news and reviews.

The Hoagy Carmichael Collection
Indiana University’s extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981). Web site will contain the complete catalog of the Carmichael Collection, access to selected digital objects, and supplemental research information, such as genealogy. The Hoagy Carmichael Collection contains sound recordings of Hoagy’s music, letters, photographs of him and his family, print and handwritten musical compositions, and more. - site intro

Information Resources for Music
Site maintained by the Arts Library UC Santa Barbara. Computer music resources, music history/musicology, copyright information, blues & jazz, folk and non-western music, instruments, performers, and much more. An interesting part this web site is the searchable digitized sheet music, much of it historical. -cb

Internet Resources for Music Scholars
This site is maintained by the Loeb Music Library at Harvard. It contain links to scholarly societies and organizations, online journals, music databases, MIDI resources, meta-sites, homes pages for music libraries and academic music departments, and vendor sites.

Music Resources: Sibelius Academy [Finland]
Music Resources is part of Sibelius Academy's larger Arts and Culture meta-site, but it stands alone as a portal to music resources. Although sites are not annotated, a wide range and broad scope of sites are available. Categories include different types of music, education, libraries, theory, catalogs, and instruments, among others. Note that most classical music information can be found under "composers." Maintained by the Sibelius Academy in Finland.

Musica
A project at the University of California Irvine to maintain records on scientific research on music and its biological substrates(MuSICA Research Notes was published in nineteen (19) issues from Spring 1994 through Summer 2001). -cb

Musicals101: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Music Theater, TV and Film
This site has general information for musical theater fans. The site also contains an especially useful section on the history of musicals starting in the 1900’s. -cb

Online Classics
At the site, visitors will find over 150 hours of video-on-demand of opera, theatre, concerts, plays, dance, and musicals, and new live broadcasts are added each week. -cb

Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Library of Congress website that offers a search engine for Music, theatre, and dance materials found in the American Memory Project. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/guide/guide-home.html -cb

Public Domain Music
Use this web site to determine whether a song is in the public domain and therefore available for use without fear of infringing upon copyright. -cb

Selected Music Resources on the Internet
This site contains a wide range of Internet sites compiled by the music research library at the New York Public Library, such as additional music links, music licensing and publishing, music libraries and archives, music organizations, and performance schedules for the New York area.

Songfile
A database of over two million songs. The database offers name of performers, and sometimes audio files, or lyrics, or sheet music or licensing information. -cb

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
An easy-to-use music music dictionary with pronouncing sound files attached to entries, useful as so many music terms are in languages other than English. -cb

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
A combination of popular and scholarly material, this site is a Web directory to musicians and musical organizations. Maintained at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.

WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
Maintained at the University of Pennsylvania.

Composers

Aaron Copeland Collection: ca 1900-1990
This is a part of the American Memory Project from the Library of Congress and contains digitized documents including original scores, letters, photographs, unpublished writings and more on Aaron Copeland’s work. -cb 

Bach Bibliography
This bibliography is maintained at the Queens University in Belfast but its mission is to serve Bach scholars all over the world. The worldwide distribution of contributors reflects the international importance of this database. There are a number of mirror sites worldwide. This URL will take you to the United States site. The Bach Bibliography contains an extensive bibliography with search capability, a list of collections worldwide, new publications in the field, and a list of journal abbreviations. -cb

Bach Central Station
Links to Bach-related Internet resources including: Analysis, Audio, Bibliography, Biography, Commercial, Educational, Events, Images, Instruments, Links MIDI, Newsgroups, Performers, Personal, Recordings, Scores, and Works. -mh

Beethoven-Haus Digital Archives
Beethoven-Haus Bonn is a museum of Beethoven's birthplace and a library for researchers.  This museum also manages a substantial digital archive that includes manuscripts, correspondence, music clips, portraits, and sound files. -cb

Beethoven Bibliography Database
The Ira F. Brillant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University has produced a fully-indexed bibliography of published material relating to Ludwig van Beethoven held by the Center’s own library. This bibliography contains over 10,000 records. -cb

Classical Music Navigator
Contains a list of the 444 most influential composers with a list of their most notable work, their style and period, what music influenced their work and what composers they influenced. Also included is a geographical listing of the composers and a listing of the forms and styles of music with the related composers. -cb

Composers: Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Links to various classical composers both old and new (Adams, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Piazolla, Purcell, and Sierra are a few examples). Also includes links to biographies, lists, and timelines. -gy

Composers Bureau Online
This site provides information on contemporary American composers. It includes biographies, works, audio clips, score samples, photographs, and contact information for many members of the Bureau. -gy

Digital Mozart Edition
This website is a reproduction of the new collected edition of Mozart's works in a digitized format.  This is a project of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum and The Packard Humanities Institute.  The website provides easy access to different variants and versions of compositions and simultaneous access to scores and critical commentaries -Choice May 2007

Hector Berlioz Website
This site is devoted entirely to the music, life, and works of Hector.  It is maintained by Michael Austin and Monir Tayeb, both based in universities in Scotland.  The site is updated twice a week and contains a massive amount of information, all of which is searchable through  an in-site search engine.  -cb                                                                                                                                                     

Leonard Bernstein Collection:1920-1989
A part of the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress. -cb

Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter
This website from the University of Pennsylvania Library provides an exhibition on the career and music of Leopold Stakowski -cb

Composition & Music Theory

Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics
Maintained at Stanford University, this web site provides information on the center, its research and serves as a repository of software developed or maintained at CCRMA.

Music Theory Online
Electronic refereed journal by the Society for Music Theory, Inc. -gy

Ethnomusicology & Folk Music

Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
Extensive list of links maintained at University of Washington Music Library.

FolkLib Index: A Library of Folk Music Links

Google Web Directory: Ethnomusicology
This site features links to archives, societies, journals, world music, folk music, and instruments. -gy

Society for Ethnomusicology

History

Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
"Ragtime: Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection. This site contains a digitized Ragtime sheet music from the Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection. This is an ongoing project and new materials will be added."- C Bruns.

Evolution of Rap Music in the United States
Curriculum unit intended for middle and high school students who are studying American history. Includes study of rap music's major components, the influence of Jamaican music, and examines rap artists and their styles and technology. By Henry A. Rhodes.

Historic American Sheet Music
"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."-Home Page.  Searchable. 

Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing
Sponsored by PBS, this web site offers a cultural history of American concert songs.

Instrumental

Brass Resources
This site includes links to various brass pages, fingerings, performers, vintage instruments, and societies. -gy

Google Web Directory: Instruments
This site features links to various instruments. Includes articles, fingerings, historical information, and links to societies. -gy

Music Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia
This site comes to us from the cultural Heritage Information and Community Outreach project at the University of Michigan. Users may browse for information on instruments around the world by classification, geographic origin, instrument type, make, materials or description. -cb 

Oddmusic.com
This site features ethnic, experimental music and instruments. The gallery features descriptions, photos, and sounds of the instruments. The site also has a discussion group area, resources page, and links to other sites. -gy

Piano Resources on the Internet
This site features links to education, history, performers, and many other piano related links. -gy

World Guitarist
These pages are dedicated to news coverage of the classical guitar community. Includes links to artists, online webzines, guitar societies, history and reference material, and more. -gy

Jazz / Blues

Big Bands Database
Information on the bands, composers, players, and overviews of the styles (Kansas City, Retro Swing, Western Swing). -gy

Blue Highway
Essays, photos, chat rooms, news, and links to related sites. -gy

BluesNet
Information on blues performers with links to musicians, essays/documents, photos, and other web sites. -gy

DownBeat.com
Online version of the jazz magazine Down Beat. Features Artists, News, Festivals DB Radio, Digital Downloads, Education, Boards, and Hall of Fame.

Jazz Alley
Links to a handbook for playing jazz, and to several sites with interviews, reviews, and photos. -gy

Jazz/Blues Archives, Collections & Museums
National/international links to Jazz/Blues archives, collections, and museums. -gy

Latin Jazz Network
Information on artists, articles, and reviews of Latin Jazz. -gy

William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz [American Memory]
"The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C."

Opera

Aria Database
Information on over 1000 operatic arias with translations and aria texts as well as MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles. -gy

OperaGlass
Libretti, reviews, information on opera companies, and links to other opera sites. -gy

Rock / Pop / Rap

Epsilon: an ambient music information archive
Articles and documents on ambient music and also ambient music links. -gy

Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
Reference resource for progressive rock music with  alphabetic index, a guide to subgengres, and entries on mainstream, obscure, and new bands. -gy

HipHop-Directory.com
Reviews, deejaying, emceeing, online magazines and news. -gy

Popular American Music Collection from UCLA
A database of the history of popular music in the U.S. from 1790 to present date. It includes music for the theatre, motion pictures, radio, televison, and general popular music, country, rhythm and blues, and rock. cb

R&B Music Primer
Links to R&B artists, primer on the music, news, and reviews. -gy

Rap Music.com
Links to artists, news, reviews, old school, and turntablism. -gy

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Information on all the inductees to the Hall of Fame. -gy

RockWisdom.com
Online reference book of over 10,000 rock song quotes. Search by subject, artist, or view the full lyrics of a song. -gy

Trouser Press
Trouser Press produced rock music guides from the 70s to the 90s. Now all the information from their previous guides is online including new updated entries. -gy

Scores          

American Memory Collections: Performing Arts
The Library of Congress has a large collection of public domain digitized materials. Topics include the research materials for Aaron Copeland, Leonard Bernstein, African American Music, Civil War music, American folk music, Hispanic music, and more. Most of these digitized collections contain sheet music or scores.

Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
"Ragtime: Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection. This site contains a digitized Ragtime sheet music from the Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection. This is an ongoing project and new materials will be added."- C Bruns.

Choral Public Domain Library: A Free Sheet Music Archive
The purpose of the Choral Public Domain Library is to make available public domain music in the form of scores and to make sure that these materials remain free and available to the users.

Digital Mozart Edition
This website is a reproduction of the new collected edition of Mozart's works in a digitized format.  This is a project of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum and The Packard Humanities Institute.  The website provides easy access to different variants and versions of compositions and simultaneous access to scores and critical commentaries -Choice May 2007

Digital Scores Collection
This project comes from the Loeb Library at Harvard.  It includes scores from The Bach Family, Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi. It is an expanding collection of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores that are freely available via the Web for classroom and research use.

Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
An index of over 29,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1780-1980. In the case of music printed before 1923, the cover and the sheet music itself may be retrieved and downloaded.

Mutopia Project
This site features free sheet music. There are 259 pieces available from the web site. The music is available as postscript and pdf files. -gy

Sheet Music Archive
This is a database of public domain scores.  A user may download two scores for free each day or you may subscribe to the site for a fee.  This website also offers advice on how to recognize public domain music.  cb

Sheet Music Plus
Commercial site for the purchase of sheet music, including difficult to find titles.

VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores
This site is from Indiana University's Cook Music Library. It includes selected opera, song, orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and piano scores that are in the public domain. -gy