Research Tools
ANALYSIS
- Analysis Index (University of Tennessee-Knoxville). Indexes descriptions or analyses of musical compositions and program notes in books.
- Allen Forte Archive (UNT College of Music)
ADDRESSES
- MPA Music Publishers Sales Agency List (Music Publishers Association).
- Addresses in the World of Music (Indiana University School of Music).
- Addresses and phone numbers of Music Schools (University of Alabama). US and some Canadian music schools.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC
- African-American Music (American Music Resource).
- Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University.
- Other Lists of Links:
- Afro-Centric Voices in "Classical Music" , compiled by Randye Jones. Focuses on African American performers and composers and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera, art songs and spiritual arrangements.
AMERICAN MUSIC
- American Music Resource A multi-dimensional source of reference information about all styles of music indigenous to the Western Hemisphere.
ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
- Library and Archives Canada: Music
- Concert Programmes Project Online Database (Cardiff University and the Royal College of Music): Documents the holdings of some 5,500 collections of music-related performance ephemera dating from 1690 to the present daym, held by 53 institutions--major libraries, archives and museums--in selected regional centres throughout the UK and Ireland.
- See also
AWARDS AND PRIZES
- Database of Grammy Award winners (official website)
- Music Awards and Prizes (University of Washington).
- Pulitzer Prizes presented by CJR
BAND MUSIC
- American Bandmasters Association
- Drum Corps International
- Marching and Concert Bands (University of Washington).
- National Band Association
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Electronic Resources in Duckles 5. Updates the chapter on electronic resources in Vincent Duckles and Ida Reed's Music Reference and Research, 5th ed. (New York, Schirmer Books, 1998). SML, Music Library, Reference ML 113 D 1998.
- International Repertory of Musical Sources (RISM). Provides news and reports on RISM activities throughout the world; describes the various printed and online resources made available by the Zentralredaktion and the U.S. RISM Office. Supplements the printed volumes of RISM (SML, Music Library Reference ML12 B478 and Reference ML113 I61). Also links to several databases (which are also available on CD-ROM, Music Library Periodicals Room)
- The Music Sack. This is a "database of factual data about people involved in music and the activities they have been involved in. The Music Sack is also an index to what has been written about these people."
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BIOGRAPHY
- Biographical Information in the World of Music (Indiana University School of Music).
- Gaylord Music Library Necrology File (Washington University, St. Louis). The goal of the web page is to report what appears in the music media as it arrives in this library. This includes the Obituary Index that appears annually in Music Library Association Notes.
- MLA Obituary Index, (Music Library Association). An on-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes.
BLUES
- Blues and Jazz (UC-Santa Barbara).
- Blues and Jazz (University of Washington). Biographies, discographies, labels, and other resources.
CANADIAN MUSIC
- Canadian Music Information Sources (Libraries & Archives Canada).
- Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia, by Jaimie Vernon (Jam! Showbiz)
- Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, 3rd ed., 2003 (The Canadian Encyclopedia/Historica Foundation of Canada).
- Library and Archives Canada: Music
COMPETITIONS AND CONTESTS
- Music Competitions and Contests (University of Washington).
COMPOSERS
- ASCAP's Ace on the Web. Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses.
- Bach-Archiv Leipzig
- Beethoven, Ludwig van: The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (San Jose State University).
- Berlioz, Hector: The Hector Berlioz Website (Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin).
- Charpentier, Marc-Antoine: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Musicien du Baroque (Catherine Cessac, chargée de recherche au CNRS).
- Chopin, Frederic: Chopin Early Editions (University of Chicago).
- Ives, Charles Edward: The Charles Ives Society
- Kodaly, Zoltan: Zoltan Kodaly Homepage (Organization of American Kodaly Educators).
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Mozart Ways (complete, four-language, annotated searchable edition of Mozarts’ letters)
- The Music Sack. This is a "database of factual data about people involved in music and the activities they have been involved in. The Music Sack is also an index to what has been written about these people."
- Schumann, Clara: Clara Wieck Schumann (David Kenneth Smith).
- Thomson, Virgil: Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.
- Weill, Kurt: Kurt Weill Homepage (The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.)
- Other Lists of Links:
- Composer Links (MOLA)
- Composers and compositions (Indiana University School of Music).
- Guide to Composer Data and Works List (Classical Net).
COMPOSER SOCIETIES
- Anderson: Anderson, Leroy
- Brahms: American Brahms Society
- Handel: American Handel Society
- Hindemith: Hindemith Foundation
- Mozart: Mozart Society of America
- Schubert: Schubert Society of the USA
COMPUTER MUSIC
- Computer Music Resources (UC-Santa Barbara).
- Electronic and Computer Music (University of Washington Library).
- Computer Music Resources (University of Tennessee-Knoxville).
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
- Contemporary Music (gateway to contemporary music resources in France, post 1945)
- Studio for New Music (NY)
COPYRIGHT
- ASCAP's Ace on the Web. Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses.
- Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University).
- Copyright Resource Center of the Music Publisher's Assocation. Provides a step-by-step guide to researching the copyright holder or publisher of a piece of music. It also provides forms for obtaining permission from the publisher to arrange a piece of music or make copies of out-of-print music.
- A Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians (Music Library Association).
- Music Copyright Information (American Music Resource).
- Music Copyright Pages (University of Washington).
- Union for the Public Domain: Union for the Public Domain (UPD) is a non-profit citizens group. Its mission is to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.
- United States Copyright Office/Library of Congress.
DANCE
- An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1600-1920 (Music Division, Library of Congress). Presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance.
- Music and Dance Bibliography and Reference (Brigham Young University)
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Death Dates of Composers and Other Musicians
- Gaylord Music Library Necrology The Gaylord Music Library Necrology file first began as a card file in the mid-1980s. In 1991, the project moved to a word processing file and in 1995, became available as a web page. The goal is to report what appears in the music media as it arrives in this library. This includes the Obituary Index that appears annually in Music Library Association Notes.
- Obituary Index This is an on-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes. The index facilitates access to information about musicians and other members of the music world. Obituary citations are compiled from a wide range of sources; selection criteria have varied by editor. Entries from the 1966 through 1995 issues of NOTES are now grouped into one database that can be searched by keywords. Entries containing keywords are returned to the user. Journal and dictionary abbreviations in individual entries are linked to names in full lists of journals and music dictionaries.
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DICTIONARIES
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary A dictionary of music terms that gives definitions, equivalents in British English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, illustrations, pronunciation (by means of sound files), and references to recordings illustrating forms, genres, and styles. An appendix gives more detailed information on musicians, historical eras, notation, ornamentation, etc.
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DISSERTATIONS
- Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music (Royal Holloway). Abstracts of both completed dissertations and to those in progress.
- UMI (Bell-Howell). Site for purchasing copies of American and Canadian dissertations.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (DDM-Online) (Indiana University School of Music). Presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories. In addition, DDM-Online includes all the records previously published in the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, which are still available for sale.
- Finding Dissertations on Music (Indiana University).
- Music Theory Online Dissertation Index.
- Proquest Dissertations & Theses (yale subscription)
EARLY MUSIC
- CANTUS: A Database for Gregorian Chant: Indices of the chants in selected manuscript and early printed sources of the Divine Office.
- Gregorian Chant Home Page (Princeton University).
- La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
- Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture: Music--From Gregorian Chant to Opera's Origins. An online exhibition of about thirty manuscripts, books, and documents.
- Other Links:
- Acadia Early Music Resources (Acadia University).
- Early Music Resources (University of Washington).
FESTIVALS
- Festival Finder.
- Finding Information about Music Festivals (Indiana University Music Library).
FILM MUSIC
- Classics from the Silver Screen (Benjamin Chee). Index of classical music and opera used in feature films.
- Film and Television Archive (UCLA): Their catalog is a good source for finding music credit in films and television.
- Film & TV Music Resources (University of Washington). Includes information on composers.
- Yale University Library Film Studies Research Guide
- Selected Internet Resources in Film (UCLA).
GRAMMAR AND WRITING - GUIDES
- The Elements of Style (William Strunk). Complete text. The book presents the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
- Society for Music Theory Guidelines for Nonsexist Language (Western Michigan University). In affirmation of its belief that language which includes women and treats both sexes fairly should characterize all its publications, the Society for Music Theory recommends the following guidelines to contributors to the SMT Newsletter, Music Theory Spectrum, and Music Theory Online. These guidelines have been drawn up jointly by the Committee on the Status of Women and the Publications Committee. They offer strategies for avoiding irrelevant gender distinctions in language.
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HYMNS
- NetHymnal. Lyrics, sound, scores, and more for more than 1700 Christian hymns and gospel songs.
INSTRUMENTS
- Woodwind Research Guides (Indiana University School of Music). The following guides are selective annotated bibliographies concerning printed woodwind resources available in Indiana University's Cook Music Library. These bibliographies describe general sources, intended to serve only as starting points for research, and are by no means comprehensive.
- A Bibliography of Writings about Historic Brass Instruments, 1988-96 (Indiana University School of Music). Covers writings about Western brass instruments and their makers, making, original performance situations, performers, performance practices, repertory, and depiction in works of art through the nineteenth century. Interviews with modern performers of historic brass instruments are also included, but not reports on conferences and workshops unless they contain significant historical information. The items listed comprise books, theses and dissertations, and periodical articles in Western European languages. All the books and articles arepublished. Unpublished items and works-in-progress have been excluded .
- A Bibliography of Writings about the Oboe and Bassoon, 17th--19th Centuries (Indiana University School of Music).
- Information about Musical Instruments (University of Washington).
- Instruments (UC-Santa Barbara).
- The "List" of Period Instrument Performance Ensembles - The PIPE List
- See also Sheet Music Collections
JAZZ
- Blues and Jazz (UC-Santa Barbara).
- Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University). The Institute of Jazz Studies is the world's foremost jazz archive and research facility. It was founded in 1952 by Marshall Stearns (1908-1966), a pioneer jazz scholar. In 1966, Rutgers was chosen as the collection's permanent academic home.
- Jazz and Blues (University of Washington). Biographies, discographies, and other resources.
- Jazz Artists: A Bibliography (East Carolina University).
- Jazz-Institut Darmstadt Houses public archives on jazz; the website includes lists of jazz repositories and jazz periodicals, as well as the "Wegweiser Jazz," a guide to jazz in Germany.
- The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection. (recordings of performance at the festival)
- Weber Jazz Collection, 1970-2005: The digital collection consists of photographs taken by Mark Weber of experimental jazz musicians during the 1970's - 1990's in Los Angeles.
- William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz (Tulane University). The Hogan Jazz Archive is a renowned resource for New Orleans Jazz research. The collection includes oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, and sheet music and orchestrations. The archive also maintain files of manuscripts, clippings, and bibliographic references.
- Yahoo Jazz Directory: Everything from artists and labels to transcriptions and magazines.
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JEWISH MUSIC
- Jewish Music WebCenter Home Page. The purpose of the Jewish Music WebCenter is to provide a forum for gathering and presenting information on academic, organizational, and personal activities in Jewish music today. Information is provided to encourage, and support the enjoyment, study, creation and pursuit of knowledge of Jewish music.
- Research in Jewish Music (JWMC). This is a guide to library research in the field of Jewish music. It contains a selective list of resources that may be helpful for getting started.
- Yiddish Sheet Music Collection (Brandeis University Library, Special Collections). The collection includes Yiddish sheet music written for the Yiddish stage, Yiddish and Hebrew folksongs, as well as cantorial compositions.
LATIN-AMERICAN MUSIC
- Latin American Music Center (Indiana University). The Latin American Music Center fosters the research and performance of Latin American art music and performance of the repertory. Founded in 1961 by distinguished composer and musicologist Juan Orrego-Salas, the center has established an important library, has promoted exchanges between musicians and scholars from the United States and Latin America, and commissioned, performed, and recorded exemplary music.
LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS OF MUSIC
- College Music School Address Book. (University of Alabama School of Music). A list of more than nine hundred college music programs in the US.
- A Directory of Music Collections in the Midwestern United States
- Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada (College Music Society).
- Directory of MusicLibraries and Collections in New England (Music Library Association, New England Chapter).
- The Atlantic Chapter of MLA.
- Music Libraries and Library Associations (Indiana University School of Music). Includes academic, public, national, and foreign libraries, some with links to their catalogs.
- Music Library and Listening Centers (University of Washington).
LIBRARY USE - GUIDES
- Guide to Ranges of LC Classification Numbers (Indiana University School of Music).
- An Index of Subjects and Their Corresponding Call Numbers in the Library of Congress Classification System (Indiana University School of Music).
- Music Cataloging at Yale (Call Numbers) (Yale University Music Library)
- An Overview to the Library of Congress Classification System (About.com).
- Principles of Uniform Titles (Indiana University School of Music). Libraries use music uniform titles in their catalog records to uniquely identify and to collocate similar printed and recorded musical works by a composer. Music uniform titles are a device by which musical scores and recordings may be found more easily in a library's catalog. However, if they are to be employed effectively, music uniform titles must be understood by the user of the catalog. The following principles and examples should help you to familiarize yourself with the conventions and meanings of music uniform titles.
MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY
- The Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media (NYU)
- The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool.
- MusTech.net (Blog-based website with all kinds of news and information on the topic).
- Music Technology -- Guide (Indiana University)
MUSIC IN FICTION
- Music in Fiction (University of Washington)
MUSIC THEORY
- Analysis Index (University of Tennessee-Knoxville). Indexes descriptions or analyses of musical compositions and program notes in books.
- Allen Forte Archive (UNT College of Music)
- Journal of Music Theory (Yale University).
- Music Theory Online, including Dissertation Index (Society for Music Theory). An electronic journal that features peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, job announcements, a new books list, and a new dissertations list.
- Music Theory Resources (University of Washington).
- Society for Music Theory (SMT)
- Thesaurus musicarum italicarum (TMI). An electronic corpus of Italian music treatises from the Renaissance and early Baroque in facsimile and multimedial transcription.
- Thesaurus musicarum latinarum, Indiana University. Database for Latin music theory.
- Traités français sur la musique (TFM) (Indiana University, Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature)
MUSIC VENDORS
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Harrassowitz Music Services
Pepper Music Network
Several useful databases can be viewed from these pages:
Scores database (primarily European Editions)
Monuments of Music from Europe contains the most important Monuments of Music from Europe, including those of Eastern European countries and Israel. New volumes which are in preparation and the total number of volumes planned (as far as known from the publishers) are given for each work.
Composers' Collected Editions from Europe includes the larger collected editions of composers which are currently in the process of being published. EXCLUDED are: most of the older Russian collected editions (e.g. Dunaevskii, Prokofiev, Chaikovskii), since many of the volumes from these works have not been available for quite some time; all of the Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel collected editions (e.g. Cornelius, Händel, Palestrina), reprinted on demand by Gregg in England, although these may be purchased from us; most collected editions which are currently published or reprinted in non-European countries (we have included a few titles from Israel and Japan).
An American music dealer that provides an online ordering service for music educators. Electronic versions of several publishers catalogs. Links to other sites
MUSICALS AND MUSICAL THEATER
- Internet Broadway Database. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
- ASCAP's Ace on the Web. Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses.
- BMI's HyperRepertoire. Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses. (Scroll down to find HyperRepertoire Song Search window).
- Links to Popular Song Indexes (Anna Seaberg, King County Library).
- SESAC's Repertory. Database of song or composition titles, writers, publishers, and artists. Includes publishers' addresses.
- Theater & Dance Guide (this is a research guide developed at Yale)
- UT Song Index (University of Tennessee-Knoxville). This is a publicly available database providing access to citations for about 50,000 songs in more than 1,500 published song anthologies.
- Popular Songs in Collections Database (University of Washington). Indexes songs "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.
MUSICOLOGY
- The American Musicological Society (AMS). A non-profit organization to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship."
- Music History/Musicology (UC-Santa Barbara).
- Musicology Jobs Wiki Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) Provides information aboutthe Society and its activities as well as links to other online resources maintained by the SSCM.
- WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists (AMS)
OPERA
- The Aria Database.
- List of Opera Companies (wikipedia)
- Metropolitan Opera Database. The database provides access to information on the Metropolitan's past performances. New performances are added weekly.
- Opera Resources (University of Washington).
- Opera Today News, commentary, information, a forum, and other resources.
- Operabase
- OperaGlass
ORGANIZATIONS
- American Classical Music Hall of Fame
- American Music Therapy Association
- American Musical Instrument Society. An international organization founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods.
- The American Musicological Society (AMS). The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship."
- The College Music Society International Directory of Music Organizations
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). An international organisation established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of Popular Music. Its activities include conferences, publications, and research projects designed to advance an understanding of Popular Music and the processes involved in its production and consumption.
- The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). A resource on women composers and women in music topics.
- International Association of Music Libraries (IAML)
- Major Orchestra Librarians' Association (MOLA)
- Music Information Centers (University of Washington).
- Music Library Association The Music Library Association is the professional organization in the United States devoted to musiclibrarianship and to all aspects of music materials in libraries.
- Music-Related Associations (UC-Santa Barbara).
- Musical Organizations, Societies, and Clubs (University of Washington).
- Society for Music Theory (SMT) (UC-Santa Barbara). The Society for Music Theory was established in 1977 in order to promote music theory as both a scholarly and a pedagogical discipline. Currently there are about 750 members from around the world, and about 300 institutions subscribe to our semiannual journal, Music Theory Spectrum. The goals of the SMT include fostering the development of all aspects of the discipline of music theory, including research and teaching. It provides forums for the presentation of research, including workshops and other aspects of professional development; and it both supports and encourages pre-professionals in their pursuit of a career in music theory.
- Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) Provides information aboutthe Society and its activities as well as links to other online resources maintained by the SSCM.
PERIODICALS
If you are a YALE student, faculty, or staff, try our LIBGUIDE first.- Early Music Periodicals: Past and Present (Indiana University School of Music).
- Finding Articles about Music (Indiana University School of Music).
- Music Theory Online
POPULAR MUSIC
- If you are a YALE student, faculty, or staff, try our LIBGUIDE first.
- Music Library Subject Guides. Look under Music Genres (University of Tennessee-Knoxville).
- Database of Grammy Award winners (official website)
PRONUNCIATION
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians© (WOI Radio, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa)
PUBLISHERS
- MOLA Index to International Listing of Publishers, Agents and Dealers (Major Orchestra Librarians' Association)
- MPA Music Publishers Sales Agency List (Music Publishers Association). A current directory of music publishers and an index of publishers' imprints with hypertext links to entries in the directory of publishers.
ROCK
- Music Library Subject Guides. Look under Music Genres (University of Tennessee-Knoxville).
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Database of Grammy Award winners (official website)
SACRED MUSIC
- Sacred Music (University of Washington).
- Berlioz Music Scores (Michel Austin and Monir Tayeb).
- The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840 (Duke University): Rare and unusual publications of music for string quartet.
- Chopin Early Editions (University of Chicago)
- The Choral Public Domain Library. Contains scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
- DMOZ Open Directory Project: Downloadable Music Sheets
- DSpace (Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music). Scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Library.
- International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). A collaborative music score library. Over 15,000 works.
- Kern Scores. Standard western classical repertory, medieval to twentieth century, in a variety of genres. Uses Humdrum **kern data format.
- MuseData: An Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores (Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities). As of 12/00, includes music composed between 1700 and 1825 by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Corelli, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Vivaldi. Music by Marcello and Telemann are slated for inclusion. Requires registration.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA)
- Mutopia. Public-domain music scores in several formats; includes some audio.
- Staff Paper in various formats.
- See also Hymns, Sheet Music Collections
SCORES ONLINE
SHEET MUSIC COLLECTIONS
- 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project (University of North Carolina)
- African-American Sheet Music from Brown University (Part of the American Memory Project.) This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920.
- American Memory Collections: Performing Arts (Library of Congress)
- American Popular Song Sheet Covers, 1890-1922 (NYPL) Thousands of examples of covers.
- American Song Sheets (Duke University) Approximately 1800 broadsides and song sheets from nineteenth-century America.
- Archive of Popular American Music: Sheet music from the UCLA Performing Arts
- Bagaduce Music Lending Library (Blue Hill, Maine). Their mission is to collect, preserve and lend printed sheet music and scores, and to provide music education programs.
- Gaylord Music Library list of Sheet Music Collections (Washington University, St. Louis).
- Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University). 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.
- Indiana University - Sheet Music. Indexes some of the more than 150,000 pieces of sheet music in several collections; includes those which have been digitized.
- Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection (John Hopkins University). The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is comprised of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The over 26,000 pieces of music in the Levy Collection are indexed on this site, and images of the cover and music are available for pieces of music more than 75 years old.
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress Music Division). Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. This first release of the online collection consists of over 22,000 musical compositions registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1879. The second online collection release (scheduled for the Fall of 1999) will make available an additional 23,000 titles registered during the years 1880 to 1885.
- Sheet Music Collections (MLA Sheet Music Roundtable). Annotated lists of collections with links to indexes or digital music sites.
- Sheet Music Consortium. An Open Archives Initiative collection of digitized sheet music from a group of libraries, including the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, Duke University, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and the University of Maine.
- Sheet Music from Canada's Past (Library and Archives Canada).
SOUND RECORDINGS
- American Memory: Performing Arts, Music (Library of Congress) Search also on sound recordings to find recordings in other collections.
- The CD information center
- The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). Through its archives, journal, conferences and discography project, CHARM aims to promote the study of music as sound. Research activity at CHARM ranges from the creation of analytical tools and software to new critical approaches that highlight the importance of performance in musical culture.
- Cylinder of the Month (tinfoil.com)
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (University of California-Santa Barbara). Digital files of more than 5,000 cylinder recordings. The collection includes nearly all types of recordings made around the turn of the 20th century including popular song, vaudeville, minstrelsy, comedic monologues, classical and operatic, solo instrumental recordings, bands, foreign and ethnic recordings, and speeches.
- Early or Historical Sound Recordings Collections and other 78 and Cylinder Sites of Interest (University of Washington)
- Edison National Historic Site - Sounds (National Park Service)
- Out-of-Print Sound Recordings (Anna Seaberg)
- The Cylinder Recordings from the Gerhardt Marimba Xylophone Collection. Percussive Arts Society.
- The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings (Library and Archives Canada)
STYLE GUIDES FOR CITING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
- The Chicago Manual of Style Online. This website provides partial access to the Manual, sufficient enough to get your bibliography started. For further help with citations Yale students, faculty, and staff can use the citation software RefWorks, Endnote, or Zotero.
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The Columbia
Guide to Online Style. (Online Book -- Yale Access Only) A guide to locating, translating, and
using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and
Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed
sources. - A Style Sheet for Citing Internet Resources: MLA Style (UC-Berkeley).
THEMES
- Musipedia: The Open Music Encyclopedia. A searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.
- Themefinder (Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University, and Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, Ohio State University). An index to ca. 35,000 musical themes of Classical and Baroque instrumental music, Latin motets freom the 16th century, and European folksong repertories. About Themefinder.
VOCAL MUSIC
- The Choral Public Domain Library. Contains scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
- ChoralNet: Internation Federation for Choral Music. Home of Choralist, ChoralTalk, ChoralAcademe, Web Message Boards, and many other Internet resources for the choral music world. ChoralNet is also the official Website of the International Federation for Choral Music.
- Musica: The Database of Choral Music. An international project and the database is therefore multilingual (French, German, English, Spanish and Dutch), containing over 71,000 references.
GENERAL LYRICS
- The Aria Database.
- Mudcat Café (Folk song lyrics database)
- Finding Translations of Vocal Works (Indiana University School of Music).
- The Lied and Song Texts Page (recmusic.rog)
- LowLand's Alternative Music Archive (LLAMA). Formerly Van Ketel's Music Index, the site offers a comprehensive collection of links to (alternative) bands & artists, record companies & labels, lyrics, (Dutch) radio stations, worldwide hitlists & charts, music archives, and audio related sites and the site uses a unique interface with JavaScript and frames.
- Lyrics World Includes Top 40, #1 by year, top singles by decade, and by artist. Also Portuguese lyrics and links to related sites.
- RePIM: Repertorio della Poesia Italiana in Musica: 1500-1700, a cura di Angelo Pompilio (Università di Bologna)
OPERA see above
SONGS
- ASCAP's Ace on the Web. Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses.
- BMI's HyperRepertoire. Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses. (Scroll down to find HyperRepertoire Song Search window).
- Links to Popular Song Indexes (Anna Seaberg, King County Library).
- SESAC's Repertory. Database of song or composition titles, writers, publishers, and artists. Includes publishers' addresses.
- UT Song Index (University of Tennessee-Knoxville). This is a publicly available database providing access to citations for about 50,000 songs in more than 1,500 published song anthologies.
- Popular Songs in Collections Database (University of Washington). Indexes songs "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.
WOMEN
- Concert and Sacred Music by Women Composers (Arsis Press).
- The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). A resource on women composers and women in music topics.
WORLD MUSIC
- Archive of World Music (Harvard University). The Archive of World Music is a special collection of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. It is devoted to collecting commercial and field recordings of ethnic and folk musics, with a special emphasis on the musics of Asia and the Middle East. It also has substantial holdings of Anglo-American ballads and songs.
- Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music (University of Washington). 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.
- Folk and Non-Western Music Sources (UC-Santa Barbara).
- Global Music Archive: GMA (Vanderbilt
University) The GMA's primary mission is to provide access to sound recordings
and images of
indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas. The GMA recently launched its first database in a series of databases, the Digital Collection of East African Recordings which contains over 2,000 discrete musical performances recorded by an East African musicologist, Centurio Balikoowa. - Music from Africa and the African diaspora
- Smithsonian Folkways Database
- Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings: A collection of 78rpm phonograph recordings from the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence.
OTHER LISTS OF LINKS TO INTERNET RESOURCES ON MUSIC
Comprehensive Lists of Music Web Sites:
- Infomine (University of California): Scholarly Internet Resource Collections -- Visual & Performing Arts
- Internet Public Library (University of Michigan): Music
- Librarians' Internet Index: Music
Other Lists of Music Links:
- Bowling Green State University: Research aids
- A directory of Music Departments and libraries. (Harvard)
- Harvard University: Internet resources for music scholars
- King County Public Library System (Seattle, Washington): Music resources
- Louisiana State University: Libraries webliograpy
- New York Public Library: Music & Related Subjects Resources
- Royal Holloway University of London: Department of Music Golden Pages
- 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
Based on a page originally created by Mickey Koth. Last revised 7/06/2009 by Remi Castonguay.