Music Webliography
The Academics of Music
- Musicology
- Music Theory
- Music Education
- Music Composition
- EthnoMusicology
- Dissertation Sites
- Music Research and Citation Guides
- Sound Recording Publishers/Distributors
- Music Schools
- Music Librarianship
- Scientific Aspects of Music
Music defined by time period
Regional or national music
World music
Regional or National Music
American Music Societies and Organizations
- ASCAP -- The American Society of Composers, Authors, Publishers
- American Music Center
- The Society for American Music (formerly the Sonneck Society)
Specific American Composer Sites
- The Charles Ives Society, Inc.
- Stephen Collins Foster
- The Hoagy Carmichael Collection -- from Indiana University
- The Official Leonard Bernstein Site developed and maintained by the Leonard Bernstein Society
- Library of Congress's American Memory Collections in the Performing Arts: Specific American Composers:
- The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 -- Music Div., Library Of Congress
- The Aaron Copland Collection, 1900-1990 -- from the Library of Congress
- The Irving Fine Collection: Ca. 1914-1962
- Woody Guthrie Correspondence, 1940-1950 -- From the Library of Congress
- The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 -- Music Div., Library Of Congress
Collections from the Library of Congress (That are not composer specific)
- African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
- Nineteenth Century Song Sheets
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
- Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
- Historic American Sheet Music
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860, 1870-1885
- Now What a Time! Blues, Gospel & the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
- Omaha Indian Music
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- Voices from the DustBowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
- "We'll sing to Abe our Song:" Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
- William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
- Presidential Campaign Songs
American Sheet Music Collections (Excluding Library Of Congress Collections listed above)
- 19th Century California Sheet Music -- from Berkeley University
- Historic American Sheet Music -- from Duke University Library
- Sheet Music Collections in the U.S.
- University of Oregon Historic Sheet Music Collection
- LSU's Circulating Sheet Music Collection
Collections of African American Music
- Afrocentric Voices in "Classical" Music
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- The Mississippi River of Song
- AfriClassical.com African Heritage in Classical Music
- The Center for Black Music Research
Miscellaneous Other Collections of American Music
Music in Louisiana
Performing Organizations and Venues
- Baton Rouge Symphony
- Louisiana Sinfonietta
- Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
- New Orleans Opera Association
- Jefferson Performing Arts Society
- Swine Palace on the LSU campus.
Informational Sites
- Offbeat -- An electronic publication about Louisiana Music
- Louisiana Music from the Louisiana Department of Tourism
- The Mississippi River of Song
- Louisiana Biography & Obituary Index
Music Festivals
- New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
- Mamou Cajun Music Festival
- Baton Rouge FestForAll
- Baton Rouge Blues Festival
Choral Music
- American Choral Directors' Association (ACDA)
- Musica -- The International Database of Choral Music
- ChoralNet : The Internet Center for Choral Music
- Chorus America
- The Choristers' Guild from Garland, TX (an ecumenical organization of church choir directors of children's and youth choirs and publishers of music and related materials)
- The Choral Public Domain Library
- Choral Music and Ensembles (from Indiana University)
Vocal Music
- DictionHelper
- Lied and Art Song Texts
- University of Tennessee Song Index
- The National Association of Teachers of Singing
- The Aria Database
- Schubertline The online score service for singers
- ASCAP's Ace on the Web Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses.
- Britten-Pears Foundation
- Free Translation Site Translates from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian into English and from English into these languages.
- Yahoo! Babelfish Translation service
- Multiligual Resources and Translating Services
Sacred Music
- The Choristers' Guild -- from Garland, TX (an ecumenical organization of church choir directors of children's and youth choirs and publishers of music and related materials)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library -- Online books in the Public Domain.
- Lutheran Hymnal.com
- Cyber Hymnal
- The Electronic Hymnal
- The Revised Common Lectionary -- from Vanderbilt Divinity University, includes text of the Scriptures
- Lectionary readings from the Presbyterian Church, USA
- The Roman Catholic Lectionary for Mass
- Calendar of the Church Year according to the Episcopal Church
- Cantica Nova's Liturgical Planning Guide
- MorningStar PublishersLiturgical Planning Guide
- Hymn Tune Index: An online searchable index
Shape Note, Sacred Harp and Fasola
- Old Harp Singing in East Tennessee
- Sacred Harp Singing
- Sacred Harp Resources
- Sacred Harp Online Index
- Sacred Harp Singing
Jazz and Blues
- The Hoagy Carmichael Collection -- Indiana University
- All About Jazz
Popular Music
- World-Wide Black Radio Stations
- IASPM - International Association for the Study of Popular Music
- Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame
- Nashville Songwriters Foundation and Hall of Fame
- Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University
Popular Music Lyrics
Film Music
Musical Theater
Electronic Music
- SEAMUS -- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
- Institut fur Spracht und Kommunikation: Fachgebiet Kommunikationswissenschaft Here you will find data about studios concerned with the production and/or the research and teaching of electroacoustic music and data about works which have been produced or conceived at these studios. Their database contains 21,500 works from about 4,000 composers.
- Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin
- The International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music
- CEMI -- Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia.
Folk Music
Informational Sites
- Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America
- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads (Visitors wishing to explore this site might try searching "horse" or "lucky".)
- Folk Song Site -- Folk song lyrics, midi-files, etc.
- Library of Congress American Folklife Center
- Center for Popular Music Middle Tennesse State University
- Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill
- Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University
- Digital Library of Appalachia The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.
- Cultural Equity Sound files collected by Alan Lomax. First time all are available free of charge
Indexes
- The Traditional Ballad Index An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World
- Cantaria -- a library of traditional and contemporary folk songs, mostly from Ireland, Scotland, and England
Country Music
Bluegrass
Opera
Opera Companies
- Metropolitan Opera
- Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center
- MetOpera Database Metropolitan Opera Archives
- New York City Opera
- New Orleans Opera Association
- Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Italy
- Opera Companies on the Web
- Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point
Opera Resources
- Resources from Stanford University
- Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres
- A cross-index of data for over 38,000 opera and oratorio premieres
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
- The Opera Glass opera librettos, synopses, etc. from Stanford University
- Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres
- OperaBase
- Oberlin Opera Resource Guide INCREDIBLE SITE!
- The Aria Database
- Opera Today
- OPERA America Supports the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera in America
Conducting
Band Music
- John Philip Sousa: American Composer, Conductor and Patriot
- American School Band Directors Association
- International Association for Jazz Education
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Bugles Across American "Every Veteran deserve[s] a live rendition of taps played by a live Bugler. To this end, we are actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families."--from their website.
Audition Information Sites
- Musical Chairs--Audition information for all types of music jobs
Braille Music
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) -- The Library of Congress
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically handicapped - Music Services
- American Federation for the Blind
- Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology
Music as a Business
- The Commercial World of Music -- from Indiana University
- American Federation of Musicians
The Academics of Music
Musicology
- American Musicological Society
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
- Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature -- from Indiana University
- Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFaMusik)- VifaMusik is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
- Journal of Music History Pedagogy
- National Online Catalogs
- Italy (to search in English, click "English" in the top bar)
- German speaking countries (including selected world-wide libraries)
- Important American Libraries for Musicologists
Music Theory
- Society for Music Theory Home Page
- Music Theory Online (journal)
- Music Theory Online Dissertation Index -- hosted by the Society for Music Theory.
- Music Theory Online (journal)
- Journal of Music Theory (information about the journal)
- Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum -- Latin Music Theory databases, a project from the University of Indiana
- Saggi Musicali Italiani -- A Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics, a project from the University of Indiana
- Form and Analysis: A Virtual Textbook / by Dr. Jeff Perry, Associate Professor, LSU School of Music.
- Schenker Guide
- Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature -- from Indiana University
- Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic Peer-reviewed journal of the the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic
Music Education
- Music Educators National Conference Website
- Music Education Online
- American Orff Schulwerk Association
- Music Teachers National Association
- K-12 Resources for Music Educators
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
- CAIRSS Music Database of Music Research Literature CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.
Music Composition
- NACUSA The National Association of Composers
- Society of Composers, Inc.
- Southeastern Composers League
- ASCAP -- The American Society of Composers, Authors, Publishers
- Composer's Tools: An Interactive Idea List by Kenneth R. Rumery.
Ethnomusicology
- Center for World Music
- RootsWorld: The Online Magazine of World Roots and Folk Music
- Society for Ethnomusicology Website
- American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
- British Forum for Ethnomusicology
- British Library National Sound Archive
- Ethnomusicology OnLine (EOL)
- International Council for Traditional Music
- Music & Anthropology
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Society for American Music
- American Gamelan Institute
- Ceolas Celtic Music Information Source
- Sephardic Voices: A Century of Recordings
Dissertation Sites
- Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest. Available through the LSU Libraries Indexes and Databases page--Must have university affiliation to view
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
- Music Theory Online Dissertation Index -- hosted by the Society for Music Theory.
- Dissertationsmeldestelle (DMS) German language dissertatins from Austria, Switzerland and Germany from 1998. Read searching instructions carefully.
- ETD Union Catalog Electronic Theses and Dissertations, a browsable index.
- LSU ETD Catalog
Music Research and Citation Guides
Music Research Guides
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
- Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)
- CAIRSS Music Database of Music Research Literature CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.
- ELEMENTS OF STYLE, by William Strunk, Jr.
Sound Recording Publishers and Distributors
- GEMM for hard-to-find recordings
- Berkshire Record Outlet
- Ars Antiqua
Music Schools
Music Librarianship
- Music Library Association
- Southeast Music Library Association (SEMLA) Homepage
- Music Library Association (MLA) Clearinghouse -- Sponsored by the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association.
- Directory of Library School Offerings in Music Librarianship, 10th ed.
Scientific Aspects of Music
Stringed Instruments
- American Viola Society
- Bass - Double Bass
- Viola da Gamba Society Page
- American String Teachers Association
- Cello Music Collection, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- Harp Music Wiki from BYU.
- International Harp Archive--scans available
Wind Instruments
Woodwinds
- National Flute Association
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection at the Library of Congress
- Composers of Flute Music by Dr. John Ranck
- International Clarinet Association
- International Double Reed Society Homepage
- Oboe and Reed Information-- from Arizona State University
- Oboe Resources from Arizona State University
- North American Saxophone Alliance
Brass
- International Trumpet Guild
- Bugles Across American "Every Veteran deserve[s] a live rendition of taps played by a live Bugler. To this end, we are actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families."--from their website.
- Online Trombone Journal
- International Trombone Association
- International Tuba-Euphonium Association (ITEA)
- Embouchures.com
Composers
- Composer Necrology -- Composer birth and death dates from Washington University in St. Louis
- Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Online: Composers Bureau -- lots of hard-to-find information found here.
- Classical.net Composer Lists Composer birthdays, Death dates, Timelines, Thematic Index abbreviations, and many more lists included here.
- Classical Composers' Archive -- biographical information and photos included
Women in Music
- 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."
- Women Composers Database
20th and 21st Century Music
- SEAMUS -- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music
19th Century Music
17th and 18th Century Music
- The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM)
- The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Homepage (SSCM)
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music
- SSCM-L, a discussion and mailing list for the SSCM. To subscribe to SSCM-L, please visit the following link: https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/sscm-l to enter your e-mail address and create a password. You will receive an e-mail confirmation that will also tell you how to change your delivery preferences and unsubscribe.
Specific 17th & 18th Century Composer Sites
- Bach Cantatas page
- Bach Bibliography: For the Global Community
- Neue Mozart-Ausgabe - Digital Mozart Edition in English
- The Beethoven House in Bonn, manuscripts and documents.
- The Beethoven Center from San Jose State University.
Early Music
- Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum -- Latin Music Theory databases at the University of Indiana
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music -- (DIAMM) Arts and Humanities Research Board in the United Kingdom
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Digital Collections
- How Do Researchers Find Digital Collections and Materials?
- Archive Hub
- Online Archive of California
- Newberry's Digital Collections
Various Topics
- Melody Hound OR "Name this Tune"
- Themefinder Need help finding the title of a tune? Use this.
Aids for Writing Program Notes
- Gaylord Music Library Necrology file from Washington University Libraries
On-line Databases
- RILM Can be used on campus or logging into your myLSU account.
- Index to Printed Music Can be used on campus or logging into your myLSU account.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
- Canadian Music Periodical Index
Music Web Pages
- LSU School of Music
- Indiana University Music Page
- NPR Homepage
- WRKF Homepage
- Melody Hound OR "Name this Tune"
Periodicals
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Provides access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- Society for Music Theory
- Journal of Music Theory
- Computer Music Journal
- Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
- Offbeat -- New Orleans' and Louisiana's Music Magazine
- Online Trombone Journal
Translation Guides
- Multiligual Resources and Translating Services
- Free Translation A great translation guide
Copyright
- Know Your Copy Rights: Resources for Teaching Faculty. Published by the American Association of Research Libraries (ACRL). (includes a brochure that can be downloaded for free)
- Copyright for Music Librarians -- Sponsored by the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association.
- U.S. Copyright Office Home Page This categorized but unannotated directory provides numerous links to sites covering copyright resources, performance rights organizations, mechanical and other rights organizations (U.S. and international), songwriter resources, publishers, general music resources, on-line services, software, books, trades, magazines, and publications. From the Nashville Pop Songwriters Association International.
Music in the Public Domain
- Public Domain Music
- Sheet Music Resources on the Net
- Pianists' Guide to the Internet
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
- Free Sheet Music
- On-line Music Scores to Download -- website of Dr. Gordon Callon, Acadia University
- Lutheran Hymnal.com
- Net Hymnal
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library the free public domain sheet music library. IMSLP is primarily a Canadian site and so there will be pieces that are public domain only there. At present due to administrative reasons, scores not found to be public domain in the US are blocked, but soon they will be available. Users are asked to read the tutorials on copyright and know and follow copyright laws of their respective countries.
- The Internet Archive The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.