MUSIC WEBSITES

This page provides hypertext links to many useful sites in the field of music.

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General Music Information	Composers	Copyright
Music Libraries	Musical Instrument Sites
Electronic Hymnals	Online Music Journals	Ethnomusicology
Medieval Music	Jazz Information	Music Organizations
Music Scores	Music Stores	Musicals
Opera	Record Stores	Sheet Music Archives
Song Indexes	Song Lyrics	Sound Recording Archives

General Music Information Websites

AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors An alphabetical directory of music publishers and vendors.

All Music  The All Music Guide site allows users to access brief biographies of composers/performers with links to information on specific works.

American Music Resource "AMR contains bibliographies, lists, Internet links and text-files covering all styles of American music and related issues." 

Classical Music This site maintained by David Dickerson provides links to a number of valuable classical music Web sites.

The Classical Music Pages  "This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies.  It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional".

Classical Net Home Page This site provides a point of entry to over 2500 sources of information about classical music, as well as links to over 2200 music related Web sites.

DW3 Classical Music Resources The Duke University Music Library provides "the most comprehensive collection of classical music resources on the Web with links to more than 1,200 non-commercial pages/sites in more than a dozen languages."

Essentials of Music Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Co.  This site provides background information on the various classical music genres, composers, as well as a helpful glossary of definitions of musical terminology.

Online Resources for Music Scholars This site is maintained by the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.

Music in the Public Domain "A reference site to help the ordinary person identify music and songs in the public domain."

Music Search A link to an internet search engine specifically geared to music related topics.

Public Radio MusicSource Supporting Public Radio and its audiences since 1992.

Sibelius Academy Maintained by the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, this site provides valuable links to music publisher catalogs, music magazines, music libraries and archives, music schools and departments, music theory and research, and much more.

Solomon's Glossary of Technical Musical Terms A valuable dictionary of musical terms used in music theory and composition.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources A significant music internet site, provided through the auspices of the Indiana University Music Department.  Just for fun, check out music humor.
 
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists

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Composers

Beethoven-Haus Bonn

Chopin Early Editions  "The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin."

Arnold Schönberg Center

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Copyright

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies

Copyright Infringement Project

Copyright Resource Center The Music Publishers' Association of the United States' directory on Music Copyright law.

UNC Chapel Hill - Law Library

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Music Libraries

American Memory :  Performing Arts & Music  Internet portal to some 33 digital sheet music and sound recording projects sponsored by of the Library of Congress.

Brand Library & Art Center A truly unique facility, part of the Glendale Public Library system.  This library maintains a collection of materials entirely devoted to the visual arts and music.  Check out the history of the mansion itself, including the story of the "Ghost of Brand."

Melvyl The computer based library system for all nine University of California campuses.

UCLA Music Library The UCLA Music Library maintains a "significant collection of music books, scores, disc and tape recordings, in addition to a growing collection of multimedia materials."

USC Music Library The USC Music Library "is geared toward the needs of the performing musician and music scholar."

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Musical Instrument Sites

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments This site provides images of period instruments, as well as brief descriptions about their design and history.

Instrument Encyclopedia This Encyclopedia Database of Instruments features instruments from the Sterns' Collection at the University of Michigan. 

NIU World Music Instrument Collection An alphabetical listing of musical instruments with photos and sound samples.

The Virtual Instrument Museum displays with both visual and sound files, the impressive instrument collection at Wesleyan University.

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Electronic Hymnals

Cyberhymnal This site provides general information and lyrics to popular hymns, and enables you to listen to a requested hymn.

Electronic Hymnal This site provides valuable information concerning hymns, church music, and sacred songs.

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Online Music Journals & Journal Indexes

Billboard  Music News, Billboard Charts, Music Videos and Ringtones.

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music This refereed journal published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music focuses on studies of the various musical cultures of the seventeenth century.

Music Theory Online A refereed electronic journal devoted to music-theoretical subjects sponsored by The Society of Music Theory.

Rock's Backpages  "The ultimate library (index) of rock music writing and journalism."

RoJaRo "The World's largest free music magazine index" covering numerous popular music genre's.

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Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music Contents  Maintained by the University of Washington Music Library.

Ethnomusicology Online A peer reviewed multimedia Web journal, with scholarly articles covering music around the world.

Global Music Archive "The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americans." The archive is housed within the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library in Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.

Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings  "A collection of 78rpm phonograph recordings from the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American venacular recordings in existence."  Fifty seconds of any recording is available online.  For further access apply to the UCLA Digital Library.

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Medieval Music

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music  "This website is a portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts.  Sponsored by the University of Oxford, and the Royal Holloway University of London.

The Gregorian Chant Home Page  A comprehensive listing of Web sites related to Gregorian Chant and Medieval music theory.

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Jazz Information

Jazz Hall of Fame  Valuable introductory information on the various jazz formats contained within the "jazzology" link.

Jazz Online A great source of information on the contemporary jazz scene. This site features interviews with modern jazz artists and links to the record companies that produce their albums.

Jazz Research Portal Maintained by the University of North Texas Music Library.

A Jazz Improvisation Primer An online text by Marc Sabatella with "information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group."

WNUR-FM Jazz Information Server A valuable source of jazz history information, including photographs. Jazz station connected with Northwestern University.
 
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Music Organizations

American Musicological Society, Pacific Southwest Chapter Site of the local chapter of the American Musicological Society.

International Alliance for Women in Music "A coalition of professional composers, conductors, performers, musicologists, educators, librarians and lovers of music, men as well as women, the IAWM encourages the dissemination of music by women composers."

The National Association of Music Education This page provides links to both the national, as well as international association of music teachers.

Music Library Association, Southern California Chapter This site provides links to many of the major music collections held at local Southern California libraries.

Music Publisher's Association The site of the Music Publisher's Association of the United States, originally founded in 1895.  The site also provides the capability to perform copyright searches.

Music Teachers' Association of California  Incorporated in 1897, it is a professional organization of approximately 4,500 members with sixty branches throughout the state.

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Music Scores

 8notes.com An extensive collection of free, downloadable sheet music and lessons.

Choral Net "The Internet Center for Choral Music" with online resources and communications for the global choral music community.

Choral Public Domain Library "The largest website devoted exclusively to free choral sheet music."

Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Online  Scores and books in public domain, many of which are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.

IMSLP The International Music Score Library Project which "attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores."

New Mozart Edition: Digital Edition "The Mozart complete works edition (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe) in digital form."

Mutopia  "All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.  There are now 649 pieces of classical music available."

VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores   "An experimental prototype of the ways in which musical scores and recording liner notes might be used in conjunction with sound recordings available online through VARIATIONS."   Maintained by the Indiana University Digital Library.

Virtual Music Rare Book Room  "The University of North Texas Music Library's Virtual Rare Book Room... collection is particularly strong in eighteenth-century French opera."

Virtual Sheet Music  "High Quality and Exclusive Classical sheet music to download and print instantly" (there is a purchase fee).

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Music Stores

Every Note "Sheet music downloads from the world's largest digital music library." (Downloads are purchased.)

J.W. Pepper  "The World's Largest sheet music retailer."

Old Town Music "Old Town Music Company (located in Pasadena) has the best Southern California selection of in-stock and hard-to-find sheet music and musical instruments."

Sheet Music Plus "World's Largest Selection of Sheet Music, Scores, Songbooks, and Guitar Tabs."

Stanton's Sheet Music "From Chopin to chromatic harmonica, Tchaikovsky to techno, Bach to balalaika, Ellington to electric guitar and everything in between!"

Theodore Front Musical Literature  This Southern California music store is a great source for locating books on music, music scores, and sheet music.

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Musicals

Musical Heaven "Showcasing the worlds best loved musical shows including Opera, Movie Musicals, Broadway Musicals, and London's West End."

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Opera

Operabase This site is quite comprehensive, providing valuable information on the major opera houses and festivals.  One can also view a history of opera.  There are also hundreds of links to additional opera resources on the Web.

Opera Glass At this site one "can get detailed information, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more."

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Record Stores

CD Universe This site provides searching capabilities by composer, conductor, work title, orchestra, performer, or label.  This site also includes a classical top-sellers list.

FYE: Music An online discount music store with 100,000 major and independent label music CDs and videos.

Tower Records From this general site one can visit the classical department and search for recordings by composer, work, or browse by record label. This site also offers a listing of top-selling classics.

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Sheet Music Archives

Archive of Popular American Music  An extensive digital archive of the sheet music from the UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections' Archive of Popular American Music.

19th-Century California Sheet Music   "A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900."  This site, maintained by Mary Kay Duggan, also provides links to several major sheet music projects sponsored by important libraries.

Sheet Music Consortium  This Open Archives Initiative based project provides access to digital sheet music collections at UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, the National Library of Australia, the Maine Music Box, and the Library of Congress.

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Song Indexes
  Use the following Websites to find songs in anthologies.  Search by title of song, note the anthologies that have desired song, and then search the name of the anthology in Oasys.

Song Index: California Library Systems "The California Library System Cooperative Song Index contains 145,000 song titles (mostly popular music) from 1,500 sheet music collections (song books, magazines, and other collections).  It indexes the collections of the California Library System Reference Centers and some of the libraries in the system.  It is maintained by the San Joaquin Valley Information Service."

Song Index: Los Angeles Public Library

Song Index: Arizona State University

UTK Song Index. University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Song Lyrics

 The Aria Database  A vital research tool for "both singers and opera fans," providing invaluable information "concerning preparing an aria, including synopsis, range and tessitura, voice part, role, and where to find the sheet music."

Gracenote Lyrics  use the "Music search" box on the left to find lyrics.

IPA Source "Accurate word-for-word translations of songs and arias in Latin, Italian, German, and French with International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions in the user-friendly PDF format."

Lied and Song Texts Page Texts of lied and art songs at this site can be accessed by first line, title, poet, or composer.

Lyrics Library A comprehensive link to song lyric Web sites.    

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Sound Recording Archives

 Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project  An audio digitization project of traditional sound recording cylinders from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Department of Special Collections.

I am grateful to Ms. Valencia Mitchell  for her valuable contribution to this list of sites.

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