Music Links

Arts Administration

1. Texas Arts Administration and Education
   
2. Opera Music Theater International
   
3. World Wide Arts Resources
   

Composition and Theory

1. Journal of Music Theory
   
2. Music Theory Online the online journal of the society for music theory
   
3. NoteWorthy Composer
   
4. Score web page for the discussion list, focuses on music notation, composition, publishing and editing
   
5. Teoría Practical Music Theory software, books, exercises and music links in English and Spanish; search-able
   

Computer Music Research and Technology

1. Computer Music Journal
   
2. Electronic Music Foundation
   
3. RailRoad Earth music and multimedia interest
   

Education

1. American Orff-Schulwerk Association
   
2. The Canadian Electronic Clearinghouse for Music Instructional Resources (CECMIR)
   
3. College Music Schools Address Book mailing addresses and phone numbers arranged by state
   
4. Edumus web page for the Italian mailing-list for pedagogy and music education
   
5. The Music Education Launch Site
   
6. Music Education Resource Base/Canadian Music Index (MERB/CMI) bibliographic database of more than 28,000 resources in music and music education from 31 Canadian resources including international journals and other sources, from 1956 to present; fully indexed by title, author, and subject
   
7. Music Educators National Conference
   
8. National Association of Schools of Music NASM ; search-able
   
9. Organization of American Kodaly Educators
   

General Research Resources

1. Aardvark's Archive of General Musical Interest
   
2. The American Music Center
   
3. African American Music general research guides to African American Music
   
4. A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
   
5. California sheet music virtual library of digitized 19th-century California sheet music, text of music and colored covers, photographs of stage productions of multicultural significance (African American composers, Chinese subjects, etc.); search-able
   
6. Canadian Music Periodical Index from The National Library of Canada
   
7. The Center for Research Libraries-Music
   
8. Directory of Music User Guides for Libraries brief descriptions of each guide along with Internet addresses for the documents or a mailing address for people willing to send copies
   
9. ECHO is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed Web-based journal that focuses on music and culture in diverse social contexts
   
10. The Icelandic Music Page
    
11. Internet Music Resource Guide
    
12. Music Necrology Washington Univ. in St. Louis Necrology database
    
13. Music Research Tools
    
14. Music Selection Resources on the WWW general music bibliography list
    
15. Parlor Songs collection of popular and classical sheet music from the 1800s to the 1940s
    
16. Penn Library Electronic Journals-Music
    
17. Sheet Music Online
    
18. Worldwide Internet Music Resources
    

History

1. American Musicological Society
   
2. Anniversary Music Calendar historical events broken down by month and day
   
3. Bach Bibliography
   
4. Beethoven Database
   
5. Black History in Music: Songs of a People looks at popular music with the focus on assisting in development of creative writing, history/social studies and music appreciation curricula; search-able
   
6. Composer Timeline
   
7. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online index of dissertations-in-progress and bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995; search-able
   
8. Chevalier de Saint-Georges(1739-1799) life and music of the French composer, as well as a list of classical CDs of other African, African American, and African European composers
   
9. The Duke Ellington Society celebrates the music, life, and lore of the jazz and 20th-century composer and performer
   
10. The Electronic Musicological Review yearly peer-reviewed scholarly journal whose goal is to foster research in the fields of Brazilian music, music technology and critical (or "new") musicology
11. Gabriel Fauré full biography, list of works, bibliography, discography with sound files, and much more
    
12. Handel on the Web
    
13. International Machaut Society organization devoted to the study, criticism, performance, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of the poet and composer
    
14. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
    
15. Lili & Nadia Boulanger biographies, list of works, discography with sound files, and much more
    
16. Medieval Music Database La Trobe University (Australia) search 8,200 chants from any word or fragment of melody
    
17. Mozart Guided Tour
    
18. Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
    
19. SCRIBE Network Music File Libraries texts of songs, dance steps, filk, presented by Serious Creation of Renaissance Information by Electronic
    
20. Sylvia Smith Archives University of Akron page containing works of more the 50 contemporary composers, including an archival folder with photos, biographical information, correspondence, concert programs, articles by and about these composers and other pertinent information
    
21. Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum
    
22. Unknown Composers Biographies, images and related resources on several European composers, primarily 17th through 19th centuries.
23. Welcome to the World of Classical Music
    

Instrumental Music

1. The American Guild of Organists the national professional association serving the organ and choral music fields
   
2. The Celtic Harp
   
3. Classical Guitar
   
4. The Drum Network - A Place for Rhythm Nuts playable with every browser with Java enabled
   
5. Guitar and Lute Issues electronic journal
   
6. GuitarLinks listing of online resources for guitarists
   
7. Harmony Central
   
8. The Internet Cello Society international community of cellists with chat area and forum boards and tips on preparation and performance
   
9. Keyboard Magazine Online
   
10. Libby and Louise's Mad World of Horns
    
11. Michael Moors' Clarinet things "clarinet," such as how to care for the instrument, a Chromatic Fingering Guide, a history of the clarinet, etc.
    
12. National Flute Association music collection housed at the University of Arizona Music Library
    
13. The Online Guitar Chord Dictionary database of over 4300 chords, includes both a chord diagram and a midi (sound) file; search-able
    
14. Percussive Arts Society
    
15. Piano Lessons
    
16. Piano on the Net series of piano lessons broken down for beginning, intermediate, and advanced piano students, plus sound clips, or download-able music
    
17. The Piano Page Piano Technicians' Guild web page
    
18. Piano World from buying tips and piano care to pictures and descriptions of the over 2000 moving parts inside a piano
    
19. The Seventh String information about software programs for guitar players, or general information about bands, guitarists, or their equipment, links to various sites, from midi sites to guitar publications, and blank tab sheets to print for free
    
20. Violin Making by Hans Johannsson sound clips from violins or cellos, learn about the construction of a violin, or learn how to take care of and perform routine maintenance on the instrument
    
21. VioLink the world of violins
    

MIDI, WAV and MP3 Sites

1. African Music Home Page download-able sound files; search-able
   
2. Audiogalaxy MP3 and Realaudio clicks, reviews, free hosting for musicians; search-able
   
3. Christmas Songs
   
4. JAM Music Production Latin MIDI files
   
5. Just Jazz classic and contemporary jazz Midi files
   
6. Keeper's Long-Lost MIDI Files built-in juke box that plays in the background
   
7. MIDI Players, MIDI Plugins, and Karaoke Players
   
8. The MIDI Universe popular and classical music
   
9. Net Radio listen to music while searching the net
   
10. RealAudio
    
11. Tunes listening station, various styles; search-able
    
12. Turkish Music
    

Miscellaneous Subjects

1. Black Music Archives
   
2. Classical Insites
   
3. Classical Music bi-weekly articles on the subject, good especially for the layperson
   
4. Classical Music Cube ... The Music Beat learn about and explore classical music using the Internet
   
5. Essays in Sound
   
6. Free Sheet Music includes some free children's, Ragtime, Christmas, classical, etc., music scores and midi files, plus free, download-able manuscript paper templates
   
7. John Lennon Songwriting Contest open to both professional and amateur songwriters of songs in Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, World, R & B, Gospel/Inspirational, Hip-hop, Latin, Dance, Folk, and a special category of children's music; entry fee
   
8. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
   
9. Kevin Lamb's Guide to Music collection of music links in various subjects
   
10. Music Business-L web site for the e-mail discussion list
    
11. Music Printer Plus
    
12. Music Yellow Pages Online music industry trade directory ; search-able
    
13. Pulitzer Prize in music exhibit by the American University Library
    
14. Quick Score Elite
    
15. (Re)Soundings journal comprising music, visual art, and verbal texts to allow scholars and artists to create and discuss texts, share and build commentary on a variety of media, and integrate sound and graphics as well as written materials; search-able
    
16. Sonances
    

Music Libraries/Archives and Librarianship

Libraries that concentrate on African American music or that have special AA collections are listed on my Special Collections page.

1. Arthur Friedheim Library Peabody Institute
   
2. Berklee's Catalog index of library's jazz/popular recordings and songbooks, including titles and (frequently) sidemen ; search-able
   
3. Bodleian Library
   
4. Boston University Music Library
   
5. The British Library Portico, The British Library's online information server; search-able
   
6. The Center for Popular Music sheet music, song books and trade catalogs ; search-able
   
7. The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) at the Univ. of Southampton in the U.K.
   
8. Directory of Music Collections in Canada an up-to-date listing of major music collections in Canadian institutions ; search-able
   
9. The Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians includes information on important bills related to copyright now in the legislative works
   
10. Duke University Music Library and Music Media Center
    
11. Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library Harvard University
    
12. Gaylord Music Library at Washington University, Missouri
    
13. Indiana University Music Library
    
14. International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
    
15. International Library of African Music Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
    
16. Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
    
17. Library of Congress Classification System: M - Music
    
18. Maxwell Music Library Tulane University
    
19. Music Library Association organizational web site
    
20. Music Library of Greece--Athens
    
21. Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG)
    
22. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts-Music
    
23. Oxford Music Faculty Library Home Page
    
24. Sibley Music Library at Eastman School of Music
    
25. Simmons College Music Librarianship Home Page
    
26. UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library
    
27. University of Edinburgh Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
    
28. Warren D. Allen Music Library Florida State University, Tallahassee
    

Organizations

1. Canadian University Music Society (CUMS)
   
2. College Music Society
   
3. Grammy Awards
   
4. International Association of African American Music (IAAAM)
   
5. The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
   
6. The Music Connection
   
7. The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) organization dedicated to the preservation, encouragement and advocacy of all genres of music created and/or performed by African Americans throughout the world
   
8. Urban Philharmonic Society dedicated to providing musical excellence to the greater Washington, DC, community and sponsors of the annual Paul Robeson Vocal Competition
   

Popular Music--All Jazz

1. All About Jazz magazine for jazz fans by jazz fans
   
2. East Coast Jazz Festival
   
3. 'The Influence of Jazz on the Beat Generation' article
   
4. InterJazz many types of data related to the jazz industry
   
5. iMusic music charts for the Top 100, Contemporary Artists, Modern Rock Artists, Rock Artists, Top 25 Requested Tours, features bulletin boards and chat rooms
   
6. JAZZ: A Film by Ken Burns biographies, photos, behind-the-scenes information about the PBS mini-series
   
7. The Jazz Age Page sound clips, biographies, historical event references
   
8. Jazz Central Station
   
9. Jazz Corner
   
10. Jazz Musicians Worldwide
    
11. Jazz Roots
    
12. Jazznet
    
13. Jazzopen a site for fans of jazz music
    
14. JazzUSA Online 'Zine monthly 'zine, music reviews, new releases, 400 home pages, women in jazz, events listing, puzzle contests, email central, jazz news
    
15. Just Jazz
    
16. Louis Armstrong Online
    
17. Miles Davis information celebrating the great trumpeter, composer and innovator
    
18. A Passion for Jazz! History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring photo gallery, timeline, festivals, webcasts, piano chords, scales, online lessons and teacher locator
19. The Real Mingus Web historical record and archival materials of the 20th-century composer, with links to related sites
    
20. A Salute to Jazz an historical overview and salute to great jazz music and musicians
    
21. Verve Music Group
    

Popular Music--Mixed Bag

1. African Influences in the development of American Music
   
2. All Star Magazine
   
3. Amazing Sounds - the Alternative Music E-Magazine
   
4. Austin City Limits web site for the long-running live music television series
   
5. Beats E-Zine free bi-weekly online magazine that covers all aspects of the music industry, including interviews with up-and-coming artists and industry insiders, news and analysis of events and of the emerging online music commerce, commentary and advice, reviews and charts of the latest albums and singles, etc.
   
6. BET on Jazz: Music Channel Web page for the cable channel with music news, links, chat room; search-able
   
7. Bob Marley collection of Web sites honoring Reggae artist Robert Nesta Marley
   
8. Digital Tradition Folk Song Database; search-able
   
9. Experience Music Project experience rock 'n' roll through a variety of online exhibits that highlight artifacts from the museum's collection, info on bands of the 1980s that created the "Seattle Sound," additional info about Seattle's popular music scene
   
10. History of Rock and Roll learn how rock and roll evolved and the types of music that influenced it, from "the African musical traits brought here beginning in 1619 and attempts to trace their fusion with the European music brought here by the colonists"
    
11. Jam TV offers the latest music news as well as featured artists, with online chat sessions
    
12. John Lee Hooker biography, real audio sideshow and news clips
    
13. Martha Reeves Page official page for the Motown performer
    
14. The Mississippi Rag, Traditional Jazz and Ragtime offers historical articles, profiles of current musicians, reviews, festival and gigs listings, news, photos
    
15. MisterLUCKY quarterly musical communique
    
16. Motherland Funk online platform for hip hop culture from the African continent
    
17. The Motown Alumni Association
    
18. Much Music USA
    
19. The Music Box concert and album reviews, the latest music news, Grateful Dead, Phish, Blues Traveler, Willy Porter, Dada, Allman Brothers, Tragically Hip
    
20. Music Factory Norwegian, limited English; search-able
    
21. Music Monitor monthly music magazine covering a broad range of musical styles: Rock, Alternative, Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Rap, Dance, Ambient, etc.
    
22. The Original Hip Hop Lyrics Archive includes RealAudio clips
    
23. P*Funk Review funk, classic soul, blues, artist profiles, wav and midi downloads, links, etc.
    
24. ProMusicFind.Com over 300,000 music items in database: instruments, books, printed music, educational resources, instructional videos, etc.
    
25. ProMusicNet for working musicians, providing profiles/information for their promotion, and links to resources, equipment manufacturers, and suppliers
    
26. Reggae
    
27. Rene Schubert's Lyric Server 80's and 90's rock and pop
    
28. The Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza
    
29. Rock on the Net discover the latest news about artists, music charts, new releases, tour schedules, has a listing of greatest rock 'n' roll artists
    
30. Rockabilly Music Hall of Fame
    
31. Rolling Stone Network online version of the rock magazine
    
32. SONGBIRDS - The Women of Classic Pop and Jazz subscription web site for the discussion list on legendary female vocalists of "classic pop" and jazz whose careers flourished between the 1930s and the 1960s
    
33. Soul Music Festival
    
34. Splendid E-Zine music e-zine updated weekly; experimental, punk, indie and pop
    
35. Top 40 from 1950 to 1989
    
36. Ultimate Band List categories include Music News, Concert Information, Record Labels, On- Line Events, and Charts
    
37. Urban Sounds
    
38. VH1 includes the Sound Shop-shop and purchase music online, The Score-a music magazine, Music First News, Sounding Boards-chat rooms, and The Link-music links
    

Publishers and Industry

1. Au Magazine daily urban business news site, for those seriously interested in the business aspects of music
   
2. Amazon.com Music Browse access to the music portion of the online bookstore search-able
   
3. BMI Hyperrepertoire resource for song titles, writers, and publishers search-able
   
4. Classical Vocal Repertoire specializing in new, standard & rare repertoire search-able
5. Da Capo Press
   
6. Edition Peters
   
7. Elderly Instruments international and traditional music recordings
   
8. Harrassowitz
   
9. House of Musical Traditions international music recordings
   
10. Ladyslipper Music annotated catalog about female musicians, writers, performers and composers
11. Lyrichord world and classical music
    
12. Multicultural Media
    
13. Music CD Search Page search by title, artist, song, or type of music
    
14. Music Matters designed to teach the basics of music publishing; Fee-Based
    
15. Music Mine Web Site
    
16. Music Publishers Association
    
17. Nordic Downloadable Music Site MPEG music archive, free mpeg audio players, online radio, vinyl database, music links, etc.
    
18. Pepper Music Network
    
19. Reference Recordings Online Catalogue
    
20. Revivendo Brazilian label that specializies in reissuing popular music from past decades, especially from circa 1960 and earlier; available in both English and Portuguese (English site under construction)
    
21. Smithsonian Folkways
    
22. Southern Music Company
    
23. William Grant Still Music
    

Sacred Music

1. American Gospel Music Directory
   
2. The Black Gospel Music Clef resources for participants and supports of the Black Gospel music industry on the Internet; search-able
   
3. By Faith Music Cyber Inspiration Site music seminars, workshops, and concerts
   
4. The Church Music Report Music Resources for church musicians, includes e-mail directory, music charts, special offers and more
   
5. Gospel Music On-Line
   

Vocal Music

1. African-American Art Song Alliance focuses on composers and performers of art song
   
2. Choralnet Resource Site
   
3. Contemporary A Cappella Society of America
   
4. F.A.L.C.O.N. Mailing List Web page for the mailing list set up to help people find lyrics not found easily on the net or anywhere else
   
5. The Fisk Jubilee Singers information about the historical and contemporary performing group
   
6. Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
   
7. International Lyrics Server lyrics to over 93,000 songs search-able
   
8. Lied and Art Song
   
9. Lyrics to Mister Rogers' Most Popular Songs
   
10. Lyrics Headquarters
    
11. Musica: International Database of Choral Repertoire virtual library of the choral music with approximately 68,000 titles, in English, German, French, and Spanish; search-able
    
12. Musical Heaven Showcases musical shows including opera, movie musicals, Broadway musicals, Off-Broadway musicals & London's West End with a synopsis of each play, scores lists, original cast recordings, licensing agents, etc.
    
13. Musicals.Net
    
14. National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
    
15. New York City Opera Online
    
16. Opera America
    
17. Operabase search the details of over 27,000 opera performances, schedules of specific singers/roles, conductors or producers, links to articles within Grove Dictionary of Opera, major newspaper reviews, etc.
    
18. The Opera Schedule Server find out what operas are being scheduled around the world search-able
    
19. Song Lyrics
    
20. Tenorland dedicated to the great tenor voices in history
    
21. Tower Lyrics Archives
    
22. Ultimate Catalog of Wedding Music hundreds of songs listed for bridal couples and musicians
    
23. 4000 German Folk Songs
    

World Music

1. African Australian Music focuses on music created by musicians of African origin living in Australia or New Zealand (either permanently or temporarily), irrespective of ethnic background, as long as the musical style has a strong African, Caribbean, or African American influence
   
2. American Music Archives traditional musics of the United States, including historical backdrops, biographies, discography's, information on recordings, photos, quick-time video, and sound samples
   
3. Kunzwana Trust
   
4. Mbira Home Page
   
5. Music & Anthropology multimedia interactive journal covering cultures in the Mediterranean region
   
6. Ceolas celtic music on the Internet
   
7. Dandemutande a resource for Zimbabwean Music
   
8. Ethnomusicology Online
   
9. An Evening of West African Music and Dances
   
10. Folk Stuff
    
11. Music of Bolivia listings of music of Bolivia, including cuecas, bailecitos, huaynos and carnavalitos
    
12. Patrick Murphy's Irish and Celtic Thingies
    
13. Philmusic.Com Philippines music web sites
    
14. Putumayo World Music
    
15. Rootsworld online magazine of world music: roots, folk, the music made by people for people
    
16. Society for Ethnomusicology
    
17. World Music from the Mining Co annotated links in almost 30 categories of music from many ethnic groups, cultures, countries, and styles, plus CD reviews and interviews with artists
    
18. The World Music Home Page
    

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