Music
Resources on the Web
This guide is a selective list of useful music reference sources available via the Internet. It is not by any means a complete list. For general assistance on navigating the
Internet see the Searching
the Internet portion of the Library's pages. If you have any questions please ask
the Music Librarian by calling x6995 or by sending an e-mail to Music.Librarian@lawrence.edu.
Directories
| Composers
and Performers | Associations
Publishers | Digital Projects
| Misc. Databases and Reference
Sources
Back to Music Main
Directories
- Worldwide Internet
Music Resources
(Indiana University)
- Large directory of music related websites provided by the Cook Music
Library at Indiana University.
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- DW3
Classical Music Resources (Duke University)
- Large directory of music related websites provided by the Duke University
Music Library.
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- Musical America
- The online equivalent of the popular print directory which has international
listings for the music business and includes listings for performing
groups, opera companies, publishers, record companies, newspapers, services,
camps, awards etc. The website also brings together industry news, press
releases, performance reviews and a calendar of events. Listings includes
address, phone, fax, web address and chief administrator for each entry. The Artist
Search feature allows you to search for an artist, production company, band
or orchestra for management information. Better to be less specific with
your data entry or be prepared to try different searches.
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- Andante
- Andante's aim is "to serve as the de facto primary source of
information on classical music for everyone from professionals to dedicated
amateurs." This they aim to accomplish through their recording label and
through their website which contains news, concert reviews, CD reviews,
commentary, interviews; a concert and performance calendar; an online
reference library; and all of the articles on classical music published in The
New York Review of Books since 1963; and an online database of composers and
their works.
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- WWW Sites
of Interest to Musicologists
(American Musicological Society)
- List of scholarly resources and other sites of interest including libraries,
schools of music, jobs, etc.
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- Internet
Resources for Music Scholars
(Harvard University)
- Another directory of music related websites provided by Eda Kuhn Loeb Music
Library at Harvard.
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- Google--Arts--Music
- The popular search engine has a good directory of music related resources.
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- Voice of the Shuttle: Music
- This web directory brings together websites of interest to humanists and
began at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. The Music
section offers a selective list of resources on classical, jazz and non-western
music.
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- Festival Finder
- Provides details on over 1500 festivals. Covers Classical, Jazz, Blues,
Cajun, Country, Alternative, Rock, Folk, Reggae festivals and more.
Composer and Performer Biography
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- New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians, Second Edition
- The online full-text version of the important print reference work.
Browse for composer and performer entries.
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- Gaylord Music Library Necrology Index
- The Gaylord Music Library at Washington University maintains this index of
composer and musician obituaries. Entries from 1991- .
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Social Security Death Index (via ancestry.com)
- This database contains information provided by the Social Security
Administration. Useful for locating death dates.
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- All Music Guide
- Database of information on classical, jazz, rock, blues,
gospel, world music, and more. Historical information, commentary, good
discographies.
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- Biography (A & E)
- The popular A&E program site includes brief composer and performer entries.
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Classical
Composers' Archive
- A personal website that includes pictures and dates for many composers from the baroque through the present.
Also includes timelines, groupings by nationality and a list of Pulitzer Prize
winners.
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- Classical Music
Navigator
- A website of information
on classical composers and their works whose purpose is to help the casual
listener identify related works.
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- Yahoo--Entertainment--Music--Artists
- Browse for composer, orchestra or artist sites.
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- Composers'
Homepages (Duke University)
- List of composer specific sites organized into historical periods.
Composers
(Indiana University)
List of composer specific sites from the Gale Cook Music Library at Indiana University.
Associations, Societies, Organizations
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- Musical
Organizations and Professional Societies
(Indiana University)
- A list of websites provided by the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at
Indiana University.
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- Musical America
- Includes searcheable listings for professional music organizations. Scroll to
Services and Professional Music Organizations or to International
Services and Professional Music Organizations and search. Includes address,
phone, fax, web address and chief administrator for each entry.
Quick Links:
American Choral Directors Association
American Guild of Organists
American Music Center
American
Musicological Society
American String Teachers Association
ASCAP (American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers)
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)
Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
Chamber Music America
College Music Society
Early Music America
International
Association of Jazz Education
MENC (National Association for Music
Education)
Music Library Association
Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)
National Association of
Schools of Music (NASM)
National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
Society for American Music
(formerly Sonneck Society)
Society for Ethnomusicology
Society for Music Theory
Society for
Seventeenth-Century Music
Publishers of Scores and Sound
Recordings
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- Musical America
- Search the directory for a domestic music publisher.
Includes address, phone, fax, web address and chief administrator for each
entry.
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- Acqweb
- Includes
links to book publisher websites, including out of print and other book
related information.
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Music
Publishers Association
- Directory of domestic and international members of MPA.
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Publishers
Catalogues Homepage
- Many links to book, cd and music publisher homepages. Browse publishers by
city, state, country, topics or types of material.
Classical
Sheetmusic Publishers and Distributors
Another site with links to music publisher homepages. Arranged by country.
Yahoo--Business-Shopping--Music
Links to music label websites. Arranged alphabetically or by genre.
Large Retailers, Scores:
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Theodore Front
- Large and reputable sheetmusic and music book dealer. Large database of
inventory searcheable online.
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J.W. Pepper
- Large and reputable sheetmusic and music book dealer. Large database of
inventory searcheable online.
Large Retailers, Sound Recordings:
ArkivMusic.com
CDconnection.com
HB Direct
Tower Records
World Music Store
Berkshire Record Outlet
(best in used classical)
Digital
Projects
- Acadia
Early Music Archive
- A collection of Renaissance and early Baroque scores.
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- African
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
- A collection of 1,305 pieces of African American sheet music from Brown
University.
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- American Memory Project
- The National Digital Library Program makes historical holdings at the Library of Congress available over the internet and include
photographs, scores, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.
Notable music projects include Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, Leonard Bernstein and
numerous folk music projects. Click
here to browse their music related projects.
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- Choral Public Domain Library
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An archive of 2800 choral scores.
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- Cyber Hymnal
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Includes 2,900 Christian hymns and Gospel songs of different
denominations.
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- Historic American
Sheet Music (Duke University)
- A project of the Rare Book/Manuscript/Special
Collections Library at Duke University that provides access to digital images
of 3,042 pieces published in the United
States between 1850 and 1920.
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- Inventions
of Note: Sheet Music Collection
- Project of the Lewis Music Library at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Pieces 1890 to 1920 pertaining to new technologies of the
time.
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- Keffer
Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895
- A collection 2,531 scores ranging in date from ca. 1790 to 1895from the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of
Pennsylvania.
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- The Lester S. Levy
Collection of Sheet Music
- 29,000 pieces of music dating from 1780 to 1960 housed in Special
Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins
University.
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- MuseData
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A digital collection of classical music scores and midi files.
Part of Stanford University's Center for
Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.
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- 19th-Century
California Sheet Music
- A virtual library of approximately 2,000 pieces of sheet music published
in California between 1852 and 1900 from UC Berkeley.
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Miscellaneous
Databases and Reference Sources
- American
Music Resource
- A reference source devoted to all styles of Western
music. The source is browseable by genre or subject and lists bibliographies
and reference works about the topic and provides links to selected Internet
resources.
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- Analysis
Index
- An index to program notes and analyses of musical compositions
in located in print sources provided by the George F. Devine Music Library at
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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- Bach Bibliography
- Database contains over 14,000 references to items about Bach.
Includes citations to published books, articles, facsimiles, dissertations,
and papers read at conferences.
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- Beethoven Bibliography Database
- Database maintained by the Beethoven Center at San Jose State University.
The Beethoven Bibliography Database provides information on significant
published materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven. Includes citations from
the late 18th century to the present.
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- Boethius Server
- Site of the Society for Music Theory. Home for Music Theory Online, their
electronic journal and their database to journal articles related to music
theory among other information.
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- Doctoral Dissertations in
Musicology-Online
- DDM-Online is an index to dissertations-in-progress, dissertations reported since mid-1995,
and dissertations published in the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, which are
still available for purchase. Searchable by author or broad category.
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- International
Directory of Musical Instrument Collections
- A Directory jointly provided by the International Committee of
Musical Instrument Museums and the American Musical Instrument Society.
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- International
Index to Music Periodicals
- IIMP is an index which helps you locate
articles in music periodicals.
Includes some full-text.
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- ITER
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- ITER is a non-profit research project whose goal is to
increase access to published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and
Renaissance through the creation of bibliographic databases. Search for
journal or books citations.
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- Music Education Resource Base
- MERB/CMI is a bibliographic database of more than 30,000 resources in music
and music education from 32 Canadian and International journals and other
sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are
fully indexed by title, author, and subject.
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- Music
Index
- An index to help you locate
articles in music periodicals. Gives citations for items.
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- New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians
- The online full-text version of the important print reference work.
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- RILM
Abstracts of Music Literature
- An index to help you locate
articles in periodicals as well as books, collections of essays,
dissertations, videos, conference proceedings, etc. Includes
abstracts.
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- Themefinder
- A non-profit collaborative project of the Center
for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford
University and the Cognitive
and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at the Ohio State University.
see also the Reference
Sources portion of the Library's webpages.
And as always, if you need help, ask the Music Librarian or another
Reference Librarian.