Music: Web Sites

Composer's biographies, lists of works and discographies; basic repertoire by time period

A list of links of worldwide Classical Music, Arts & Entertainment and subject category index

"Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress."

A database of biographical and descriptive information on artists, composers, compositions, songs and songwriters representing a variety of music styles, including classical, reggae, rock, and folk. The database includes links to sound recordings, a music glossary, and surveys of music styles.

An international database of bibliographic records of music dissertations completed or in progress.

An "up-to-date and (the) most comprehensive bibliography of J. S. Bach."

From San Jose State University, a comprehensive bibliography of scores and research materials.

The online edition of the Bach Gesellschaft edition of Bach's collected works.

The online collection, from the Library of Congress includes photographs, scripts from the "Young People's Concerts," scripts from the "Thursday Evening Previews," and correspondence.

Neue Mozart Ausgabe Online

Texts, translations of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles. The database also includes synopses and historical information on the opera, the vocal range of the aria, and links to scores and sound recordings.

A database of over 2,000 completed dissertations and dissertations in progress in the field of music, musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology and other related disciplines at institutions around the world.

An index to master recordings (matrixes) and published discs beginning in 1900; based at the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries.

Maintained at Washington University until 2012, this database includes death dates reported in music media..

At Indiana University.

"...the world’s largest reference archive of texts and translations of art songs and choral works."

Historical recordings from the Library of Congress encompassing a variety of genres from the first part of the 20th century

Enter actual pitches, contour, scale degree, etc. to search and find classical, renaissance, and folk song themes; includes identification of theme, midi example and musical notes.

"...aims to give free access to and make searchable every known Latin text on music from the late antiquity to the seventeenth century, in multiple editions and in transcriptions from original sources."

Includes a glossary and index to information about African artists, music in african countries, and links to other sources.

From Indiana University

From Indiana University, a large ethnographic collection of popular, world music, spoken word recordings, and the Hoagy Carmichael collection.

From the University of Washington, an extensive site of links to sites around the world and dedicated to specific regions and research resources.

From the Vanderbilt Wilson Music Library, "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 Americas." The current primary collection contains music from East Africa and Uganda.

A finding aid and digital archives of the collections at the Smithsonian.

A collaborative repository of choral music.

A digital collection of rare string quartets.

From the University of Oregon, includes popular music related to Oregon and music by Oregon Composers, Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, and Liza Lehmann.

A free public domain research library. Includes works of over 2,700 composers and a large collection of orchestral parts.

From John Hopkins, a large collection of American popular music from the years 1780 to 1980. Strengths of the collection are nineteenth-century America popular music and music "spawned by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I..."

A score database of over 22,000 pieces of music. A joint project of Bagaduce Music Lending Library, Blue Hill, Bangor Public Library, and the University of Maine’s Fogler Library, and funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The project

From the Library of Congress, "62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885."

Include Yiddish, Jewish, and American popular music, cantorial music, classical music, and ethnic music from 1797 through 2002, primarily published in the US, Latin America, Russia, and Europe.

Online access to important music manuscripts and print materials from the British Library, Library of Congress, Harvard University, The Julliard School, Morgan Library and Museum and the New York Public Library

Music and lyrics in the public domain

Links to sheet music collections and digitization projects around the world.

Includes radio and HD schedules

Includes world-wide current information about opera houses and productions, performers, managers, and rental productions.

Detailed information on operas; including libretti, texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, and role creators.