Music libraries' guides to Internet resources || Indexes to music dissertations || Style guides for citing electronic resources || Writing and grammar guides || Copyright || Music periodicals || Electronic lists and discussion groups || Music publishers || Music libraries/music schools homepages || Sheet music collections || Composer homepages || || Musicology || Music theory || Musical instruments || Iconography || Women || African American music || Biographical information || Using the library || Wedding music || Vocal music including song texts || Guides to music organizations || Music festivals || Music awards and competitions || Addresses || Musical calendar || Chant/Early music || Opera || Film music || Music in TV commercials || Jazz || Rock || Popular music || Blues || Country music || World music || Computer music || Music and technology || Music in fiction || Sound recording technology || Musical humor

• Electronic resources in Duckles 5
• Yale University Music Library: Electronic resources in music
• Bowling Green State University: Research aids
• Brooklyn College: World Wide Web resources in music
• Duke University: Classical music resources
• East Carolina University: Music resources on the Internet
• A directory of home pages and other resources from schools of music and music research institutes, maintained by Florida State University
• Harvard University: Internet resources for music scholars
• Indiana University: Worldwide Internet music resources
• King County Public Library System (Seattle, Washington): Music resources
• Library of Congress: Music resources gopher
• Louisiana State University: Libraries webliograpy
• Royal Holloway University of London: Department of Music golden pages
• Sibley Music Library: Selected music sites
• Tufts University: Music research tools
• UC-Berkeley: Research resources
• UCLA: Lists of music sites on the World Wide Web
• UC-Santa Barbara: Selected music web sites
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Music resources around the World Wide Web
• University of Washington: Internet resources
• University of Wisconsin-Madison: Internet music resources
• Répertoire international des sources musicales (RISM)
• Washington University in St. Louis: Music resources on the Internet

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• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
• Finding dissertations on music
• Music Theory Online Dissertation Index
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) 17th-Century Music Dissertations, 1994-
• Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
• UMI

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• MLA-Style citations of electronic sources
• Bibliographic formats for citing electronic information
• Guides for Citating Internet Sources from W.W. Norton
• Citing Internet addresses
• Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information
• A Style Sheet for Citing Internet Resources: MLA Style

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• A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (the other MLA) Documentation
• Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions from the other MLA
• A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
• Online English Grammar
• Writing style suggestions
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk
• Society for Music Theory Guidelines for Nonsexist Language
• Brass Music of Women Composers
• Gyrating, Vibrating & Rocking all Night Long : Women's Voices In Music
• Concert and Sacred Music by Women Composers

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• United States Copyright Office/Library of Congress
• Union for the Public Domain
• Music copyright pages
• A guide to copyright for music librarians from MLA
• Music copyright information, from American Music Resource
• Copyright and fair use
• Copyright resource center of the Music Publisher's Assocation
• Copyright information from UCLA
• Intellectual property and performance rights
• Copyright and performing rights issues

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• International Index to Music Periodicals
• Selected list of online periodicals from Sibley Music Library
• See the section on (free) Online journals
• Early music periodicals: past and present
• Electronic journals
• Electronic journals- music
• Finding articles about music
• Electronic journals and digests
• Academic and popular Periodicals and Journals
• Electronic music journals
• Music Periodicals: MTO, EthnoFORUM, and other electronic journals from CICNET
• Music Electronic/Online Journals

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• LISTSERVs & newsgroups on music
• Scholarly and professional e-conferences in music
• Electronic journals and digests
• The Comprehensive Internet Reference to Discussion Lists: Music
• Maarten's Music Links: Newsgroups on Music (good for world music)

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• Music publishers/distributors (sheet music and books on music)
• Music Publisher Agency List gives addresses and phone numbers

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• Directory of Music Libraries and Collections in New England
• A Directory of Music Collections in the Midwestern United States
• Libraries and Collections in the Chesapeake Chapter of MLA
• Music Libraries and Library Associations including academic, public, national, and foreign libraries, some with links to their catalogs; from Indiana University
• Music libraries in the U.S. and Canada from Rice University
• College music school address book a list of more than nine hundred college music programs in the US; maintained by the University of Alabama School of Music
• Music schools and music libraries home pages
• Special collections in US and Canadian music libraries
• The Big Ten music libraries (all 12 of them)
• US and international music libraries
• Music Departments
• Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada

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• Johns Hopkins University Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
• Gaylord Music Library index to sheet music collections
• Orchestra/Ensemble Web Pages
• See this site for foreign language dictionaries

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• Clara Schumann homepage
• Zoltan Kodaly homepage
• Composers and compositions from UCLA
• Composers and compositions from Indiana University
• Bibliographies about composers from American Music Resource
• The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose State University

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• AMS
• WWW sites of interest to musicologists
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
• Selected Web Resources for Music and Musicology from Princeton. Includes departments of music, music libraries, homepages for individual composers, theorists, musicologists, and performers, links for web resources on contemporary and computer music, early music, opera, performing organziations, commercial web sites.
• 20th Century Music
• 19th Century Music
• Music Through ca. 1800
• Music before the 20th century
• Music History/Musicology

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• Thesaurus musicarum latinarum: database for Latin music theory
• Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum: Italian music treatises from the second half of the sixteenth to the early seventeenth century
• Readings in Tonal Music Theory
• Music theory resources
• Society for music theory or
• Society for music theory
• Music Theory Online Dissertation Index
• Journal of music theory

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• A bibliography of writings about historic brass instruments, 1988-96
• Information about musical instruments
• A bibliography of writings about the oboe and bassoon, 17th- 19th centuries
• A bibliography of woodwind research guides
• Musical instruments
• Instruments
• The "List" of Period Instrument Performance Ensembles
• Musical instrument dealers
• Online guitar chord dictionary

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• Iconography

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• Women in music
• Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930
• The International Alliance for Women in Music
• Women in music, from American Music Resource
• Women-in-Music Bibliographies
• Women Composers Born 1760-1899
• Women composers/Women in music

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• Archives of African American Music and Culture
• African-American music, from American Music Resource

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• Biographical Information in the World of Music
• Dates of people in the world of music
• Necrology of Musicians : Inspired by a well-known dictionary of musicians formerly edited by Nicolas Slonimsky
• Biographical information on performers
• Gaylord Music Library Necrology File

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT HEADINGS

• Guide to ranges of LC classification numbers
• An overview to the Library of Congress Classification System
• An index of subjects and their corresponding call numbers in the Library of Congress Classification System

UNIFORM TITLES

• Principles of uniform titles
• The basics of uniform titles

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• The Ultimate Catalog Of Wedding Music
• Music for your wedding (at University of Virginia)
• Music played at weddings

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SONGS

• Musiklink : UTK song index, a publicly available database providing access to about 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
• An index to songs in popular music collections and fakebooks that are not in the following: Where's that tune?, Popular Song Index, Songs in Collections, Index to Song Books Includes a list of collections indexed and and alphabetical index of song titles.
• Links to popular songs indexes
• Index to arias and art songs in collections (under construction)
• Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930

CHORUSES

• ChoralNet : Internation Federation for choral music
• The Choir Links Page, a list of choirs, by type, with links to their homepages.
• Musica, the database of choral music

SONG TEXTS/LYRICS

• ASCAP's Ace on the Web
• BMI's HyperRepertoire
• The Lied and song texts page
• A mirror of song lyrics from ftp.uwp.edu
• International lyrics server
• Van Ketel's lyrics page
• The digital tradition folk song database
• Finding Translations of Vocal Works in Books (at Indiana University)

LYRICS TO MUSICALS

• Tower Lyrics Archive: lyrics to musicals
• Lyrics page: lyrics to musicals
• Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts

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• Musical organizations
• The College Music Society International Directory of Music Organizations
• Musical organizations, societies, and clubs
• See the section on Music societies and foundations
• Music organizations
• Societies and Associations
• Foundations/centers for music, arts, and humanities
• Music-Related Associations
• Music Professional Societies
• The International Alliance for Women in Music
• Musical organizations
• Music Information Centers

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• Finding information about music festivals
• Event Calendars, Festivals and Exhibitions
• Festivals, etc.
• Festival finder

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• Music awards and prizes
• Music Competitions and Contests

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• Music Publisher Agency, gives addresses and phone number
• Addresses in the World of Music
• Addresses and phone numbers of Music Schools: US and some Canadian music schools; maintained by the University of Alabama

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• Anniversary Music Calendar
• Anniversaries of Composers, Sorted by Anniversary & Birthday
• Statistics and dates of composers arranged chronologically

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• La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
• Gregorian chant home page
• Plainchant
• CANTUS: a database for Gregorian chant
• List of resources on early music and chant
• Early music resources

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• List of opera companies in the US and Canada, and links to over 150 opera-related sites on the web
• Opera resources from the University of Washington
• Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
• Opera from UC-Berkeley
• Opera, Musical Theater, and Choral Music
• List of opera resources

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• Film music resources (including information on composers)
• Film, television, radio music

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• Music used in television commercials in New Zealand and worldwide
  A cooperative venture between several large New Zealand public libraries, this site lists classical music used in New Zealand TV commercials, many of which have been used worldwide. It is arranged alphabetically by the product being advertised.

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• Jazz Artists: a bibliography
• William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
• Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers)
• Jazz from UCLA
• Jazz sites from UC-San Diego
• Blues and jazz from UC-Santa Barbara
• General Internet Jazz Resources
• Jazz and blues : biographies, discographies, labels, and other resources
• The JazzWeb at at Northwestern University

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• Rock from UCLA
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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• Popular music (general) from UCLA
• MusicLink: Music on the Internet: Popular genres and jazz

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• Blues from UCLA
• Blues and jazz from UC-Santa Barbara
• Jazz and blues : biographies, discographies, labels, and other resources

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• Country Music from University of Washington

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• Archive of World Music, Harvard University
• World Music and Traditional Folk Music from UC-San Diego
• Folk and Non-Western Music Sources from UC-Santa Barbara
• Maarten's Music Links: World Music
• Maarten's Music Links: Newsgroups on Music (good for world music)
• Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music: 1) Organizations,Institutions, Archives 2) Bibliography, Periodicals and Online Publications, 3) Recordings: Labels and Distributers, 4) Sites by Geographical Region 5) Dancing and Dance Music
• Ethnomusicology, Jazz and World Music Resources
• Music from Africa and the African diaspora
• Smithsonian Folkways Database

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• Computer music research from UC-San Diego
• MIDI, computer and electronic music
• Computer music resources from UC-Santa Barbara
• Electronic and Computer Music from University of Washington

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• Music and technology from UC-Berkeley
• Technology and music from UCLA
• The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)

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• Music fiction/Music in literature
• Opera in fiction

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• Early or Historical Sound Recordings Collections and other 78 and Cylinder Sites of Interest
• The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music
• The CD information center

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• New Zealand Symphony Orchestra amusements and trivia
• The Caption James T. Kirk Sing-a-long Page
• Texas Institute of Theory
• Hosaphone^(tm) Headquarters
• JOKES
  • Viola Jokes
    • Viola jokes from Alex Beam's Boston Globe column on Wednesday, November 30, 1994
    • Viola jokes
    • More Viola jokes
    • Even more Viola jokes
    • Pete Levin's Viola Joke collection
    • No Laughing Matter: The Viola Joke as Musician's Folklore by Carl Rahkonen
  • Non-viola jokes
    • Conductor jokes
    • Drummer jokes
    • Band instrument jokes
    • Musical instrument jokes, arranged by instrument
    • Instrument jokes
    • Instrument jokes
    • Yahoo's musical instrument jokes
    • Music jokes
    • Bagpipe jokes
  • General music jokes
    • Jokes
    • Preston-Beachwood Music Jokes
    • Musician and industry jokes

Music Library Association Clearinghouse
Sacred music
Vocal music
Marching and concert bands
Canadian music information sources
Geographical and Cultural Sites
Music databases and archives
American Music Resource
Music Instrument and Voice Sites
Selected Web Links for Music Library Internauts
Gaylord Music Library Music Instrumental/Vocal Pages
Gaylord Music Library Technology and Music/Arts Research Centers
The Golden Pages: Links for musicians on the WWW
Latin American Music Center

Yale University Music Library
Comments to Mickey Koth
Last revised Sept. 12, 1999.
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm
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