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- Aaron Copland Collection - Library of Congress. Online material includes approximately one thousand items selected from Copland's correspondence, writings, photographs, and complete sets of music sketches. His letters describing his three month stay in Mexico (September 1932 to January 1933) are particularly interesting.
"Mexico was a rich time. Outwardly nothing happened and inwardly all was calm, yet I'm left with the impression of having had an enriching experience. It comes, no doubt, from the nature of the country and the people. Europe now seems conventional to me by comparison. Mexico offers something fresh and pure and wholesome - a quality which is deeply unconventionalized." (January 13, 1933 letter to Mary Lescaze).
"I am installed here in a small town near Mexico City [Quinta Catipoato, Calle de Allende y Matamoros, Tlalpam, D.F.] in great style with a villa and a magnificent garden..." (November 13, 1932 letter to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky.)
"I am bringing with me a young violinist who is a pupil, companion, secretary and friend! His name is Victor Kraftsor [sic]." (August 18, 1932 letter to Carlos Chávez.)
Copland also spent the summer of 1936 in Tlaxcala:
"I have a house on top of a high hill, on the site of an ancient Aztec palace, with magnificent mountains all around. The town of Tlaxcala is very old itself, full of ruins of former days, and very picturesque. The conditions for composing are ideal, and I hope to finish my high school opera here." (July 9, 1936 letter to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky.)
Copland completed El Salon Mexico in 1936 and dedicated the score to Victor Kraft.
"From the very beginning, the idea of writing a work based on popular Mexican melodies was connected in my mind with a popular dance hall in Mexico City called Salon Mexico. No doubt I realized, even then, that it would be foolish for me to attempt to translate into musical sounds the more profound side of Mexico: the Mexico of the ancient civilizations or the revolutionary Mexico of today. In order to do that one must really know a country. All that I could hope to do was to reflect the Mexico of the tourists, and that is why I thought of the Salon Mexico. Because in that 'hot spot,' one felt, in a very natural and unaffected way, a close contact with the Mexican people. It wasn't the music I heard, but the spirit that I felt there, which attracted me. Something of that spirit is what I hope to have put into my music." (Vanguard Liner Notes).
For additional information on Copland and Mexico see El Salón México, Visualizing Modernity and Tradition in Copland's America
by Gail Levin, ISAM Newsletter, Fall 2000 Volume XXX, No. 1 (Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York) and Copland's autobiography with Vivian Perlis:
Copland : 1900 through 1942 and
Copland: Since 1943.
- All About Jazz: A Magazine - Interviews, biographies, articles, reviews, genres.
- All-Music
- All Songs Considered - NPR's online music program provides full versions of the music snippets played on NPR's afternoon news program. (For more, see the New York Times Arts&Large column, NPR's Instrumental Bits Become an Online Music Show by Matthew Mirapaul.)
- America Singing: 19th Century Song Sheets - Library of Congress collection of single printed sheets, with lyrics but no music, most of which dating from the 1850s to the 1870s. Consisting of scanned images of the original sheet along with the lyrics, the collection offers "a unique perspective on the political, social, and economic life of the time, especially during the Civil War." Searchable by keywords and browsable by titles, names and publishers.
- American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress - The Library of Congress and
Rounder Records have joined together in a project to reissue on compact discs albums of American folk music from the legendary Library of Congress series.
- Benjamin A. Botkin Folklife Lecture Serie
- 2007 Homegrown Concerts
- Symposia and Related Events
- Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog - "Searchable database provides bibliographic information on approximately 34,000 ethnographic sound recordings. Most were recorded between 1933 and 1950."
- American Music Center - Information and support center for contemporary classical music and jazz. Provides access to New Music Box, a monthly Web magazine.
- Andante - (Note: Site shut down in February 2006. See Classical Music Web Site Andante Shuts Down)
Classical music news, interviews, cd reviews, concerts reviews and commentary. This is a rich resource, providing Reference, Radio, Profiles, a Directory with over 12,000 web sites and Archives. For more about Andante, see Streaming the Classics in Cyberspace, by Allan Kozinn, New York Times, August 28, 2001. (Free registration.)
- Arcade Fire - Hear their complete concert at Judson Memorial Church in New York City on February 17, 2007 in NPR's Arcade Fire in Concert. They recently released Neon Bible. You can hear a lot of this music on Merge Records - click on Listen/Watch and select Arcade Fire from the dropdown menu.
See also:
- Arcade Fire: Neon Bible [Record Review] - By Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, March 05, 2007.
- Arcade Fire: Art-Rock Fueled by Eclecticism and Pain - Fresh Air, June 4, 2007. Includes interview with husband-and-wife team Win Butler and Regine Chassagne.
- A Band on Fire by Hugo Lindgren, New York Magazine, March 5, 2007.
- One Very, Very Indie Band by Darcy Frey, New York Times Magazine, March 4, 2007.
- Big Time by Sasha Frere-Jones, New Yorker, 2/19/2007, Vol. 83 Issue 1, p182-184.
- Testing Faith in a Church by John Pareles, New York Times, February 15, 2007.
- Have hurdy-gurdy, will travel by J. Kelly Nestruck, Maclean's, February 9, 2007
- LSIXEYES MP3 Blog by Alan Williamson has the lyrics for Neon Bible.
- Aria Database - Searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type. Includes translations, texts and midi files. (Maintained by Robert Glaubitz.)
- Arnold Schoenberg Center - Although primarily in German, this is a rich resource for Schoenberg material. The Library and Archive has scores, manuscripts, designs, paintings & drawings (including landscapes, portraits and self-portraits), letters, teaching materials and photographs.
- Arnold Schoenberg: Complete List of All Internet Sites - Maintained by E. Randol Schoenberg (grandson of Arnold Schoenberg)
- Arnold Schoenberg Archives - University of Southern California.
- Arnold Schoenberg Legacy
- Art of David Tudor - Getty Research Institute.
- Biographical Sketch of David Tudor (1926–1996)
- Inventory of the David Tutor Papers (1884-1998).
- Audio and Video
- Image Library
- ASCAP's ACE - Database allows you to search by song title, writer, performer or publisher. BMI Repetoire, a database of 7.5 million song titles, is searchable by artist, title, publisher and songwriter/composer.
- Audiogram - "2865 pièces en écoute." Listen to Yves Marchand's Belvédère
- Australian Folk Songs - Mark Gregory's "collection of more than 100 Australian Folk Songs has words, music and information about each song."
- Austrian Cultural Information System (AEIOU) - Music-related pages include History of Music (with audio samples) and the Musik-Kolleg Online with biographies, images and music samples for Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms and Karl Schiske. (Available in German and in English.)
- Bach Cantatas - Walter F. Bischof provides access to the texts of all Bach cantatas, as well as oratorios, passions, masses, and motets. All texts are in the original language, i.e. most are in German, some are in Latin, and then there are bits in Italian and in Greek.
- Bach Central Station: a Directory of J.S. Bach Resources on the Internet - David J. Grossman
- Beatles
- Bernstein's Studio: the Official Leonard Bernstein Site - Searchable by alphabetical index or through a navigable site map of Bernstein's work space; includes chronology of his life, calendar, catalog of compositions (with instrumentation). Produced by Classical Insites with the cooperation of the Bernstein's estate.
- Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930 - "Includes title, composer, publisher, date and city of publication, and the existence of an accompaniment other than piano." (Christopher Reynolds, Department of Music, University of California, Davis.)
- Big Bands Database - Murray Pfeffer's site is dedicated to "to jazz and to swing history, and to the music now known to the world as "American popular song".
- Billboard Online - Highlights include the Billboard 200, New Releases, and Reviews & Previews.
- Blue Note - New York City jazz club, part of the InterJazz site.
- Bluegrass with Mustard - Podcast archives from KAJX Aspen.
- Blues Archive - University of Mississippi Libraries Department of Archives and Special Collections. With inventories.
- BMI - Offers database of 7.5 million song titles, searchable by title, author or publisher, updated weekly from an organization representing over 180,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers
- bobdylan.com - Columbia Records provides a searchable database of Bob Dylan's published lyrics and audio samples of every track on every album. Includes a catalog of albums, and an alphabetical or chronological list of songs.
- Bob Dylan - Expecting Rain - Karl Erik Andersen
- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - Over 30,000 ballads which can be searched by title, first line, subject, author, performer and publisher. These have been gathered into a single catalogue along with a scanned image of each ballad sheet. Each record of a broadside which contains a musical score has a MIDI sound file
- BowieNet - Official David Bowie site.
- Brain Opera - Tod Machover
- BUBL LINK: Catalogue - BUBL LINK Information Service has annotated links for Music
- ByrdWatcher: A Field Guide to the Byrds of Los Angeles
- Canadian Music Periodical Index - National Library of Canada provides access to this "includes nearly 30 000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. 500 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented here, almost 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed."
- Caramoor - Katonah, New York
- Carnegie Hall - New York concert hall offers Concert Calendar.
- Carolina Classical Connection - Index of classical music websites, organized by period.
- CDnow - Online music store offers audio clips
- Celebration of the Piano: Selections from the Archives of American Art - Manuscripts, photographs, sketches and sound files. (Prepared in connection with the Smithsonian's Piano 300 exhibition. Piano Roles is a companion book, published by the Yale University Press, 1999.)
- Ceolas: Celtic Music Archive - Gerard Manning. You can also search James Stewart's TuneIndex, a master index of hundreds of Celtic tunebooks, with a total of over 55,000 entries.
- Chamber Music Conferences and Workshops - Maintained by Charles Hollister. See also his String Quartets on the Web and String Quartets - New England.
- Chicago Jazz Archive - University of Chicago . All That Jazz, an article about the archive by Chris Smith, appeared in the April 2001 University of Chicago Magazine.
- Chieftains WWW Site
- Children's Music Web - Monty Harper and PJ Swift.
- Chopin Early Editions - "Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin."
- Choral Public Domain Library - With over 2800 scores, many with sound files. Created and maintained by Rafael Ornes.
- ChoralNet: the Internet Center for Choral Music - An officially sanctioned activity of the International Federation for Choral Music, the site offers over 1,000 links to choral music-related sites.
- Cité de la musique - Paris. Also available in English
- Classical Composers' Archive
- Classical Archives - Pierre R. Schwob offers thousands of classical music files in midi format. Access to some parts of the site requires a subscription.
- Classical Guitar Music -Scores for music by Dionisio Aguado, Fernando Sor, Matteo Carcassi, Napoleon Cost, Mauro Giuliani, Luigi Legnani, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Barrios Mangore, Francisco Tarrega,Andres Segovia, Antonia Cano.
- Classical Search - Classical music search engine.
- Club Kaycee: Jazz Sights & Sounds - From the sound archives & music collection of the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
- CMJ Online - New Music site offers interviews, reviews and news. Publisher of CMJ New Music Monthly and CMJ New Music Report.
- Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival - Called the "best American festival" by Rolling Stone Magazine, and "the premier rock gathering in the nation, if not the world" by the Los Angeles Times. The Music Player has free audio tracks of the artists who'll be performing at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, on April 29 & 30, 2006. Last year's performers included Ambulance, Autolux, Bauhaus, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Buck 65, Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Donavan Frankenreiter, Doves, Eisley, Four Tet, Jem, Kasabian, Pinback...
- Columbia University Orchestra Audio - Beethoven's Symphony No. 7; Brahms's Symphony No. 1; Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faun; Debussy's Syrinx; Dvoràk 's Symphony No. 8, Dvoràk's Symphony No. 9 (From the New World); Haydn's Symphony No. 88; Lalo's Concerto for Cello in d minor; Mahler Symphony No. 5 - IV: Adagietto; Mozart's Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music); Mozart's Symphony No. 40; Pärt's Fratres for Cellos; Prokofiev's Concerto for Violin, No. 1; Ravel's Ma Mère l'oye (Mother Goose Suite); Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished); Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde.
- Concerts from the Library of Congress - Has information on past seasons back to 1997.
- Cowpie Song Corral - Lyrics (listed by artist) and search engine for country music.
- Critical Metrics - Created by Joey Anuff and Will Kreth, this music discovery site "keeps track of recommendations and playlists across all media so you can easily find, try, and buy the best new music." Reviews are gathered from such sources as the Village Voice, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Salon, NPR, Spin and Pitchfork. You can play the song right from the main page by clicking on the speaker icon. "We're currently indexing ~22K reviews written by ~1200 reviewers, who over the last 18 months have collectively recommended 15K+ songs via 300+ review/recs sections of around 80 publications and misc media outlets." (from Cool new online playlist generator, BoingBoing, April 20, 2007). Other music review aggregators include the Hype Machine, fiql, MetaCritic and elbo.ws Music Blog Aggregator.
- Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) - "Interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. A collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, CPANDA is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts."
- Curtis Institute of Music - Philadelphia.
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project - Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Search Collection
- Browse Collection
- Cylinder Radio
- Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) - "A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings and other important labels." Audio access restricted to subscribers.
- Datenbank des Wiener Konzerthauses - Database of over 45,000 programs for concerts which have taken place at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna from 1913 on.
- Deutsche Grammophon - Provides news in its Insights and information on its artists.
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
- Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
- Das digitale Beethoven-Haus - Bonn. The Digital Archives contains "5,000 documents on 26,000 coloured scans of high quality, 1,600 audio files (music examples, audio letters) and 7,600 text files." There are also audio files. Try a search, for example, for Diabellivariationen.
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music - "Online resource for the study of fragments and complete manuscripts of European Medieval Polyphonic Music." Collaboration between scholars at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Digital Library of Appalachia
- Search for the Celebration of Traditional Music Collection, Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives or the Blue Ridge Institute Archives. There are also hundreds of interviews. Some highlights:
- Ashokan Farewell - Fiddle tune played by Art Stamper, 2002
- Stony Point - by Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys
- Ain't Got No Loving Baby Now - by Clayton Horsley
- 49 Women - Bobby Buford and Keith Rodgers
- Jolie Blon - Tracy Schwarz
- Midnight on the Water - David 'Fox' Watson
- Reel of the Hangman - David 'Fox' Watson [ww02216.mp3]
- House Carpenter - Jean Ritchie
- In the Pines - Jim Fuller and Bill Fuller.
- John Henry - N & W Stringband
- Wildwood Flower - 36 results
- Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - Searchable index containing lyrics (and some midi files) for over 6500 songs is provided by the Mudcat Cafe, a magazine "dedicated to blues and folk music." A title browse, for example, for John Barleycorn shows at least four versions, including the lyrics made famous by Steve Winwood (of Traffic) which also has a simple midi sound file. (You can search do a search for John Barleycorn Must Die at Global Electronic Music Marketplace (GEMM) and locate used cds and records.)
- Dirty Linen Magazine of Folk and World Music - With a useful Tour Schedules section, listing concerts by state, artist, and event/festival.
- Disc-O-Logue - National Library of Canada provides this catalogue of French-language popular music recordings available in Canada published between 1962 and 1979, developed from the archive maintained by Louise Lamothe. There's a search page and a Best Sellers page.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online - "Database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Containing more than 10,800 records, including the contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (still available for sale), DDM-Online is browsable, just as was possible in the earlier printed editions, but it is also fully searchable by author and or by as many as three simultaneous keywords in any part of the record." The site is Key word searchable with an Author Index and a period index. (Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, School of Music, Indiana University.) A related resource is the Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music maintained by Geoffrey Chew.
- DotMusic - "Latest UK music industry news."
- Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers - Steven Estrella, Director of Computer/Media Services Temple University, Esther Boyer College of Music.
- Duke Ellington Collection - Part of the American Music Collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. With Shockwave Virtual Tour using photographs, sound recordings, and oral histories from the collection.
- DW3 Classical Music Resources - Comprehensive guide to classical music Internet resources, organized and annotated by Yale Fineman, User Services Librarian, Music Library and Music Media Center, Duke University.
- Early Music FAQ - Edited by Todd Michel McComb, the site is "the largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music on the web."
- Eastman School of Music - Rochester. Sibley Music Library contains the Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections. Items of interest include Giacomo Puccini, Iconography Database, E. Maude Wilson Sheet Music Collection and the Octavo Collection. Provides links to Selected Music Sites.
- Electronic Music Foundation - Their CDeMUSIC sells new music CDs and offers MP3 sound samples.
- Ellington at 100 - New York Times tribute includes essays, song clips, slide shows and rare video footage. (Free registration)
- Elvis Home Page - Andrea Helene Berman's "original, unofficial Elvis Home Page."
- Early Music Guild - Offers a collection of Early Music Web Resources
- Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music - Located at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the collection is described as "the world's largest lending library of orchestral performance material, with over 21,000 titles and growing. It houses virtually the entire standard repertoire, and is also known for its many rare and out-of-print works available for lending around the world."
- EMI Music Publishing - Offers News, Songwriter Profiles, a Latin Catalog and a Song Catalog searchable by title, artist, writer, year, label and film/show. Access to some parts of the site requires registration (free).
- English Folk Dance and Song Society - Offers An Introductory Bibliography on Morris Dancing:An annotated bibliography based on the holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and a collection of links to related resources.
- English Server - Music Pages
- Enregistrements sonores - This song collection, offered by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec consists of over 2000 "pièces musicales enregistrées entre 1900 et 1952.". You can browse by title, date, subject, label, and artist. Especially interesting are the Reels, Danse folklorique, children's songs (Chansons enfantines) and the French folksongs (Chansons folkloriques françaises). For example, there are 8 verisions of Alouette, six versions of La claire fontaine and 3 versions of Au clair de la lune. Among the reels are Joseoph Bouchard's Galop de La Malbaie (02:54 min - 1948, Source: Bluebird B-1143) and
Reel Pointe-Au-Pic (03:01 min - 1952, Source: Bluebird B-1140).
- Epitonic
- Erik Satie Homepage - Niclas Fogwall, Lund, Sweden. Offers Music Samples, Manuscripts, a Complete List of Compositions, articles and pictures.
- Essentials of Music - W.W. Norton site offers overviews of the six main periods in music history, biographies of nearly 70 composers, and a glossary with 200 definitions with numerous musical examples in RealAudio.
- Ethnomusicology OnLine - "Peer-reviewed multimedia Web journal."
- Evelyn Glennie Official Web Site - Cambridge, UK, percussionist's site, which includes a link to her Virtual Percussion Masterclass.
- Experience Music Project - Seattle music museum offers a rich selection of multimedia. With Site Map, Archives, features, interviews, and an artifact showcase.
- Filter Magazine
- Folk Legacy Records - With Index.
- Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources - Compiled by Jane Keefer, a librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University. "Some 2,100 recordings are included with a major emphasis on tradition based material from both commercial and non-commercial performers, including a considerable number of recordings of old-time fiddle and banjo music."
- Folkmusic.org - "Definitive online folk music resource"; includes artist biographies, discographies, pictures, sound bites, lyrics, guitar tablature, tour schedules.
- Folksong Index | Volkslieder Verzeichnis - Lyrics and midi files, primarily for pre-1922 songs. Has an Irish Folksongs section.
- Folkways Database Search - Smithsonian Institution database allows you to search the 35,000 track database of all the Folkways, Cook, Paredon, Dyer-Bennet and Smithsonian Folkways recordings. Search for artist/performer, recording title, track title, year, record label, instrument, recording number or any text.
- FolkWeb - On-line CD store for independent folk and acoustic artists and labels with clips in RealAudio.
- France Musiques - En direct - Radio France
- Free Scores on the Web - Victor Reny's collection of free scores for piano, saxophone, guitar, accordion, orchestra, violin and choral (also available in French as Partitions gratuites sur le Web). Reny has also created Perso Flamenco: Partitions Gratuites pour guitare flamenco et classique, partituras, mp3, a collection of free flamenco and classical scores for the guitar.
- From Frying Pan to Flying V: the Rise of the Electric Guitar - Online exhibition at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution.
- Fundação Biblioteca Nacional - The National Library of Brazil. Their division of Música, which is available in English, has a section on Brazilian composers with biographies and audio files in MIDI format. For example, the Virtual Archives has biographies and MIDI files for Alberto Nepomuceno, Carlos Gomes and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
- Gallica - Text and image digitization project undertaken by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. You can search (recherche) for keywords (recherche libre). Try searching for Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, François Couperin, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Gounod, Jacques Offenbach, Camille Saint-Saëns. Music-related titles include:
- Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz: 1819-1868
- Revue wagnérienne
- L'Année musicale
- Bacchus: opéra en 4 actes et 7 tableaux - Catulle Mendès ; musique de J. Massenet
- Floréal - Armand Silvestre ; musique . de Jules Massenet
- G. Schirmer - Useful site with composer biographies, articles, reviews, index.
- Gaylord Music Library Necrology File - Maintained by Nathan Eakin, Gaylord Music Library, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
- George Frideric Handel - Maintained by Brad Leissa
- Getty Research Library Special Collections Finding Aids - Music-related collections include Mary Caroline Richards papers, 1928-1994, Dick Higgins papers, 1960-1994 (bulk 1972-1993), David Tudor research papers, 1884-1998 (bulk 1940-1996), Allan Kaprow Papers, 1940-1997, Carolee Schneemann papers, 1959-1994 and the Experiments in Art and Technology records, 1966-1993.
- Glenn Gould Archive - National Library of Canada. There are Archival audio tapes
- GlassPages - Philip Glass on the Web - Unofficial site maintained by Jordi Petit i Silvestre, Jose Jimenez Mesa and Alex Christaki includes links to other Glass resources.
- Global Electronic Music Marketplace (GEMM) - Over 3,200.000 new & used cds and vinyl. Specializes in hard-to-find titles. A recent search for Tom Tom Club (Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, formerly of the Talking Heads) located 14 entries for The Good, the Bad and the Funky, their first album in eight years, with prices starting at $8.99.
- Goldband Recording Corporation - Photographs, sound recordings and biographical essays in the Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Graceland - Official site for Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion has information on tours and an Elvisology with historical and statistical information on his life and career.
- GRAMMY Awards - Awarded annually in February by the Recording Academy, officially known as the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), an organization of more than 13,000 musicians, producers and other recording professionals.
- Grassy Hill Radio - Streaming folk and accoustic music. See also Grassy Hill Concerts, Lyme, Connecticut.
- Grateful Dead
- Dead.net - "Official site of the Grateful Dead."
- Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - By David Dodd, librarian and co-author of The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography.
- Deadlists Project
- Internet Archive: Live Music
- California School Gets 'Grateful Dead' Archive - By Don Clark, Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2008. "The trove, to be transferred to the University of California at Santa Cruz, includes photos, artwork, press clippings, posters, letters, backstage passes, ticket stubs and other documents assembled by the band over 30 years, as well as memorabilia sent to the group by fans."
- Great Day in Harlem - Based on Jean Bach's 1994 documentary about Art Kane's photographs of 57 jazz musicians taken in Harlem in August of 1958
- Harmonia Mundi - Independent classical label. Many of the artists provide audio clips.
- Helix Musical Instruments - Australian James Corr specialises in unique hand made instruments which include, harps, lyres, psalteries, marimbas, xylophones, tuned and untuned percussion and a range of multi-cultural instruments.
- Hoagy Carmichael Collection - A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collection of materials pertaining to the life and career of the master songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981). You'll find sheet music, over 500 lyric sheets, a selection of sound files, photographs, correspondence and supplemental research material.
- Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations - Midi files of 200 hymns. (From the Christian Classic Ethereal Library maintained by Harry Plantinga, Calvin College.)
- Illustrated library of favorite song -Full-text of the 1873 book from the Making of America Project.
- Historic American Sheet Music - Digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. (A project of the Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.) Comparable resources include the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at Johns Hopkins and the Library of Congress' Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885. For more resources see Digital Librarian's Sheet Music, Lyrics, Librettos, Scores.
- Hoagy Carmichael Collection - Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program to "catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981)."
- Imeem - "imeem is a social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselves
with media, including music, video and photos, and form connections based on shared tastes and interests."
See The Music Industry's New Internet Problem by Douglas McMillan, Business Week, March 6, 2009. "Streaming music sites with freely accessible content are being used by a growing number of listeners as a substitute for buying music."
- Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM) - Associated with the Centre Georges-Pompidou and the French Ministry of Culture, IRCAM was established in 1970 as an institute for musical research. Of particular interest is the Multimedia Library which provides access to extensive musical resources, (some of which are not open to the public).
- iMusic
- International Alliance for Women in Music - "Resource on women composers and women in music topics. This community archive is developed and maintained by members of the IAWM and contains more than 3500 pages of archival resources. There is a collection of links to Internet resources on Historical Women Composers.
- International Double Reed Society - Yoshiyuki Ishikawa, Editor
- International Lyrics Server - Swiss site provides lyrics to 100,000 songs, searchable by artist, album or song title. Merging with SongFile
- International Machaut Society - Scholarly organization devoted to the study, criticism, performance, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) and their manuscript and performance traditions. Machaut on the Web provides links to sites relevant to the teaching, study, and performance of poetic and musical works by Guillaume de Machaut, including sound clips.
- Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum / International Mozarteum Foundation - Salzburg, Austria. The Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Online makes "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study, scholarly and educational use. This web site contains the musical text of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe issued by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg in colaboration with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna since 1954."
- International Organ Foundation - Offers the Pipe Organ Encyclopedia, an interactive and comprehensive guide to the pipe organ for all levels of interest, a Catalogue of organ music by J S Bach and Links to Other Resources.
- Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg) - Complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are now available for free on NMA Online. See Mozart's entire musical works now free on Net, CNET News, December 12, 2006.
- Internet Archive Live Music Archive - "Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format."
- Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies - San Jose State University Beethoven Center provides a Beethoven Bibliography Database, a "fully-indexed bibliography of published (and selected unpublished) materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven."
- J.S. Bach Home Page - With biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, complete catalog of his works, recommended recordings and other web Bach resources. Maintained by Jan Hanford and Jan Koster.
- Jazzbasen - Database of Norwegian jazz includes biographies, photographs, history, soundclips, and links to related resources. In October 2001 the database contained 13,679 song titles, 2,079 album titles and 4,902 musicians. You can also search by label and date. A project of the National Library of Norway and the Norwegian Jazz Archives.
- Jazz Online
- Jazz Web - WNUR-FM, Northwestern University
- Jean-Luc Ponty Official Web Site
- Jelly Music Magazine
- Johnny Cash - Hurt - Youtube music video of Cash's rendition of the Nine Inch Nails song (I hurt myself today....) directed by Mark Romanek.
- Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music - Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
- Juilliard School - New York
- Juno Awards - Canada's music awards.
- Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - Central Vermont "radio show and website bringing composers to the wider world through their music, interviews, pictures, photos, artwork, essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas." Has RealAudio cybercasts and archives.
- Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Official site includes biography, tours, discography, news and pictures.
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Washington D.C. Has daily live Internet broadcasts.
- Kölner Philharmonie
- Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) - Copenhagen. Has a collection of e-scores and sheet music including Chansons d'Amour - The Copenhagen Chansonnier with song list.
- Kurt Weill Foundation for Music - Biography, discography, audio files.
- Classic 99 KFUO FM St. Louis - Has a long list of links to Record Labels.
- Accord
- Angel
- Deutsche Grammophon
- EMI
- Hänssler
- Harmonia Mundi
- Kairos
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Mode
- Naxos
- Nonesuch
- RCA
- Reference Recordings
- Telarc
- SONY Classical
- Virgin Classics
- Warner
- Windham Hill
- Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences - With information on the Latin Grammy Awards.
- Latin Music On-Line - Guide to Latino rock, salsa, jazz and merengue. Includes interviews, news, concert dates, reviews.
- Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library - "World's most comprehensive image bank for Music and one of the largest for Arts. In addition to its own collection, Lebrecht has access to five million pictures from institutions, great photographers and partner libraries in Europe and North America."
- Leonard Bernstein Collection - Library of Congress Music Division. Collection of music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, 85 photographs, audio and video recordings, and fan mail.
- Leonard Bernstein’s Boston Years: Team Research in A Harvard Classroom - Interviews and transcripts. "Created by students, faculty and librarians, it focuses on the conductor’s childhood and early career, and features more than a dozen unique interviews with Bernstein family, friends and contemporaries." (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.)
- Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter - Curated by Marjorie Hassen, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library, University of Pennsylvania. With RealAudio Musical Selections and Interview Segments.
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - "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.
- Lib-web-cats: A directory of libraries throughout the world - Links to online catalogs in over 4,700 libraries worldwide. Online library catalogs often provide useful information on sheet music. Try using such Library of Congress subject headings as Popular Music - United States - Texts; Songs, English - United States - Texts; Musicals - Excerpts - Librettos; Popular instrumental music; Folk songs; Dance music; Vocal music; Piano music; Bugle music; Marches (Piano); Cantatas, Secular - Scores; Masses - Vocal scores etc. Other access points for library catalogs include
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW,
National Library Catalogues Worldwide, the
European Library and
LibDex: the Library Index.
- Library of Congress Online Catalog
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
- Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts
- Interview with Composer and Pianist Fred Hersch - 26 October 2007 [50 minutes].
- Lied and Song Texts Page - Extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and art songs of many different languages, designed and maintained by Emily Ezust.
- Lied and Song Texts Page - Extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and art songs of many different languages, designed and maintained by Emily Ezust. Searchable and browsable by Composer, Poet, Language, First Line and Title.
- Lilith Fair - "Celebration of women in music"
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - New York. With information on the Mostly Mozart Festival.
- Liverpool Beatles Album
- Loeb Music Library - Harvard University. The Internet Resources for Music Scholars has a good collection of links to sheet music.
- Loreena McKennitt Home Page - Official home page
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Magnatune - "We work directly with independent musicians world-wide to give you downloads of MP3s and perfect-quality WAV files. We never work with major labels, and our musicians always get 50%. You can listen to every album in its entirety before buying or becoming a member." Free downloads, via mp3 and podcasts, of
classical,
electonica,
jazz & blues,
metal & punk,
new age,
rock, and
world music. Offers automated licensing which "means that with a few clicks of the mouse, you can get high quality music and a valid legal agreement to use it."
- Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - Curated by Nancy M. Shawcross, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - "Archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history."
Online resources inlcude lyrics, sheet music and sound files (RealAudio, MIDI and AIFF) . Joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri, where the permanent collection is housed. Edited by Michael F. Murray, Missouri State University. (See also Schroeder Folk Song and Folklore Collection at the University of Missouri.) The collection is keyword searchable or you can browse by
song title,
singer and
catalogue number. Listen to:
- Amazing Grace - Sung by Rev. Harold E. Hunter, Eldorado Springs, Missouri, October 7, 1958.
- Billy Boy - Sung by Max Hunter, Springfield, Missouri, February 7, 1969.
- Billy the Kid - Sung by Glenn Orhlin, Mountain View, Arkansas, May 29, 1969.
- Black Jack Davey - Sung by Wise Jones, Fayettville, Arkansas, June 21, 1958. Jones was a student at the University of Arkansas.
- Casey Jones - Sung by T. R. Hammond, Osceola, Missouri, September 17, 1958.
- Circle Be Unbroken - Sung by J.J. "Red" Curry, Fayetteville, Arkansas, August 18, 1975.
- Dewey Dens of Yarrow - Sung by Mr. Max Hunter, Springfield, Missouri, June 21, 1958.
- Gallows Song - Sung by Kay Orhlin, Mountain View, Arkansas, October 7, 1969
- Hannah Lee - Sung by Jim Little, Fayetteville, Arkansas, July 30, 1959.
- Hangman - Sung by Susan Herrod, Memphis, Tennessee, July 14, 1967.
- House Carpenter - Sung by Roxie Phillips, Berryville, Arkansas, November 4, 1958.
- I Wish I Was Single - Sung by Rev. Harold E. Hunter, Eldorado Springs, October 7, 1958.
- In the Pines - Sung by L. M. "Shorty" Burks, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, October 18, 1957.
- Jesse James - Sung by Glenn Orhlin, Mountain View, Arkansas, May 29, 1969.
- Miller's Daughter - Sung by Fred Smith, Bentonville, Arkansas, June 23, 1958.
- My Horses Ain't Hungry - Sung by Mrs. Kenneth Wright and Mrs. Gladys Jennings, Hurley, Missouri, May 22, 1960.
- Pretty Polly - Sung by Harrison Burnett, Fayetteville, Arkansas on August 18, 1960.
- Red River Valley - Sung by Doris Viene, Springfield, Missouri, June 30, 1958.
- Rising Sun - Sung by Harrison Burnett, Fayetteville, Arkansas, August 18, 1960.
- Texas Rangers - Sung by Fran Majors, Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 23, 1959.
- Two Brothers - Sung by George Lay, Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 23, 1959.
- Wildwood Flower - Sung by John Mullins, Springfield, Missouri, May 22, 1960.
- Michael Ochs Archive - Called by Alan Schwarz "the premier source of musician photography in the world", the collection consists of over three million prints, proof sheets and negatives. (They Had Faces Then: An Archive Keeps Stars Ever Young, by Alan Schwarz, New York Times, May 28, 2006, Section 2, p. 19.)
- Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website - Peter Losin
- MIT World - "Distributed Intelligence." "Free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT." The index contains more than 625 videos." You can browse the videos. Relevant items include:
- Handel As Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas - By Ellen T. Harris, February 13, 2002 (01:11:44)
- Mojam - "Largest calendar for live music in the world."
- Mozart Project - Steve Boerner
- MSN Entertainment Network - Weekly news and reviews
- MTV Online
- Muse Magazine: the Journal of Women in Music
- Music Education Online - Maintained by Larry Newman
- Music Education Search System - "A query system of two databases important for performing research in music education. The first database is of 11 music education journals. The second database is 4,500+ abstracts created by Professors William Poland and Henry Cady during the late 1960s and 1970s of music research prior to 1965." Assembled by Edward P. Asmus, Department of Music, University of Utah.
- Music Educators National Conference Website - Provides a site index.
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 - Library of Congress site 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." Search by keyword or browse index of authors, subjects and titles.
- Festival Finder - Details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America.
- Festivals.com - Searchable site has news, book reviews, features, an event of the day and a festival finder.
- Austin City Limits
- Bonnaroo - Held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee.
- Bumbershoot - Seattle
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Santa Cruz, California.
- Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival
- Domaine Forget
- Edinburg Festivals
- Electric Picnic - Stradbally Hall Estate, Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland
- Festspielnachrichten Bayreuth - Richard Wagner Festival
- Festival de Nimes
- Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
- Grand Canyon Music Festival
- Grand Teton Music Festival - Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- High Sierra Music Festival - Quincy, California
- Hollywood Bowl
- Lollapalooza
- Monterey Jazz Festival - Longest running jazz festival in the world, held in the third weekend in September.
- Montreal Jazz Festival
- Montreux Jazz Festival - Held annually in July. There is a Montreux Jazz Festival Concerts Database.
- Mostly Mozart Festival
- New England Folk Festival Association
- Olympic Music Festival - Classical music festival
- Operabase - Database of 500 opera houses and festivals worldwide.
- Outside Lands - San Francisco
- Oxygen Festival - Ireland
- Pemberton Festival - British Columbia
- Pitchfork Music Festival - Chicago
- Ravinia Festival - Highland Park, Illinois. There is a Listening Room (including Giovanni Gabrieli's Canzon per sonare, No. 2)
- River to River Festival - New York City
- Roskilde Festival - Official site of one of Europe's biggest music festivals.
- Salzburg Festival
- Sasquatch Music Festival - George, Washington
- South by Southwest Festival - Austin, Texas, annual showcase for independent music. In SXSW Bands you can listen to music by over 900 bands.
- Summercase - Barcelona
- Tanglewood Festival
- Three Choirs Festival - "International classical music festival presented in August each year by rotation in the cathedral cities of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester."
- Virgin Festival - Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore
- Music Information Center, Visual and Performing Arts Division - Chicago Public Library
- Chicago Blues Archives
- Blues Bibliography
- African American Gospel Music Bibliography
- Jubilee Showcase Archives
- Martin & Morris Gospel Sheet Music Collection - "1,500 titles comprising nearly the entire output of this landmark Chicago gospel publishing house founded by Kenneth Morris and Sallie Martin." With inventory.
- Musicals: Scores and Scripts in the Music Information Center
- music-ir.org - "Virtual home of music information retrieval research." Maintained by Professor J. Stephen Downie and hosted by the Information Science Research Laboratories, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Music Library Association - Site highlights include Useful Resources Online, a monthly Placement Service Job List, a Directory of Library School Offerings in Music Librarianship, and a Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians.
- Music Mecanica - Band organs, nickelodeons, bells, carillons, and music boxes. In French, English & German.
- Music Notation Programs Compared
- Music Paper - 8 1/2 x 11 blank music papers in PDF format can be downloaded and printed for your next composition or arrangement. One of the resources provided by the University of Virginia Library's Digital Media Center.
- Music Publishers' Association - Has a useful Directory of Music Publisher section which provides publisher's addresses.
- Music Resources - Sibelius Academy, Finland
- Music Resources on the Internet - Collection of music resources provided by the Canadian University Music Society is comprehensive, well-organized and annotated.
- Music Resources on the World Wide Web - Yale University Music Library
- Musi-Cal: Concert Schedules - Search for concert schedules by city, performer venue or event.
- MusicSearch - "Internet's music-only search site" with over 20,000 links.
- Music Selection Resources on the WWW - Anna Seaberg, King County Library System
- Music Teachers National Association
- Music Under Soviet Rule - Ian MacDonald's site includes information on Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Vainberg,
Kancheli, and Ustvolskaya. (See also Onno van Rijen's Soviet Composers.)
- Musica: Database of Choral Music - Multilingual database (in French, German, English, Spanish and Dutch) with over 71,000 entries.
- Musical America - Describes itself as "the business source for the performing arts." Although most of the site is open to subscribers only, free access is provided to selected articles.
- MusicDish Genome Project - Searchable directory of music, new media and entertainment websites.
- Mutopia - Public domain music downloadable for free as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files (at both A4 and Letter paper sizes), as well as Lilypond's own LY (.ly) file format. Audio previews are available as MIDI (.mid) files. Composers include T. Arbeau, J.S. Bach, A. Banchieri, L. van Beethoven, M. Carcassi, F. Carulli, M. Clementi, J. Dowland, G. Giordiano, S. Joplin, L. Milan, W. A. Mozart, N. Paganini, C. Saint-Saens, E. Satie, and F. Schubert.
- NME - UK music news service billed as the "world's fastest music news service."
- National Association of Teachers of Singing
- National Endowment for the Arts - Includes a section on Music.
- National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) - National Music Publishers Association.
- National Portrait Gallery - London. Has a Picture Library Search with information on approximately 10,000 works in which you can search for artist, sitter of by title or by NPG number. (In Advanced Search you can restrict your search to images available on web site.) There is an alphabetical list of artists, as well as an alphabetical list of sitters. Portraits of musicians include Paul McCartney (NPG 5695), Yehudi Menuhin (NPG 5552), Joan Sutherland (NPG 6215) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (NPG 4829). Jill Furmanovsky is interviewed (see
Interviews with photographers ). She is known for her photographs of musicians including Debbie Harry, Joan Armatrading, Chrissie Hynde, Björk, and 'K.D.' Lang.
- National Public Radio - Provides a Directory of Stations and a listing of its programs, including Billy Taylor's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Prairie Home Companion and Pipedreams.
- NPR Music - NPR's beta music site is a rich source for all sorts of reviews, interviews, and performances. See Online: Music: National Public Radio tries a new tune on the Net by Jamin Brophy-Warren, Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2007. "NPR asked member stations to contribute their own material such as live concerts and interviews." Contributors: KUT (Austin, Texas); WGBH (Boston); WGUC (Cincinnati); WKSU/Folk Alley (Kent, Ohio); WBGO (Newark, N.J.); WFUV (NYC); WNYC (NYC); WXPN (Philadelphia); WDUQ (Pittsburgh); KPLU (Seattle); KEXP (Seattle); and American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio. Some highlights? Best CDs of 2007. Be sure to listen to the top choices by Steve Seel of Minnesota Public Radio's The Current: 'Scythian Empires' from Armchair Apocrypha by Andrew Bird, 'Gone Gone Gone' from from Raising Sand by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and 'Start a War' from Boxer.
The Artist Index has information on and music by over 2,000 performers. A search for McGarrigle, for example, locates a July 19, 2004 Friends of Emmylou Harris concert, part of the Creators at Carnegie series. Kate and Anna McGarrigle, are accompanied by Emmlou Harris and Rufus Wainwright in some of the songs. The McGarrigles perform "Quand vous mourrez de nos amours"; "Heart Like a Wheel"; "Red Rocking Chair" and "Green Rocky Road" (starting at 54:00).
- Nederlands Muziek Instituut - Provides access to records for sheet music and books through Publiekscatalogus KB (Catalog of the Nederlands Muziekinstituut)
- Neue musikzeitung - In German; edited by Theo Geissler
- New England Conservatory of Music - Boston
- New York Public Library - The American Music Center's historic Collection of more than 60,000 scores and recordings of works by American composers has been transferred to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. (See News.) The New York Public Music Division collection is searchable via CATNYP: Research Libraries Online Catalog. There is also a Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) - Provides a useful Internet Guide.
- Newsday.com: Davidson's Pulitzer Entries - 2002 Pulitzer awarded to music critic Justin Davidson of Newsday "for his crisp coverage of classical music that captures its essence."
- Nordic Index of Classical Music - Classical music in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland; J. Chr. Berlin
- Obituary Index - "On-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes." (Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources.)
- Online Classics - Classical music, ballet, musicals and theatre.
- On-Line Guitar Archive (OLGA) - Collection of guitar chords and tablatures. It also contains lessons, chord charts, software, and information on building guitars. There is an Archive, a search engine and links to Other Internet Guitar Resources.
- Online Guitar Chord Dictionary - "Guitar chord dictionary containing 4398 chords and searchable by chord root, chord type, bass note, and position. In addition, a 'visual search' option is available for searching by fingering pattern. A chord diagram showing the notes that make up each chord and a MIDI file of the chord are also included." (Digital Media Center, University of Virginia.)
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - With over 120 librettos in the Opera Index. Includes midi and RealAudio files, searchable database of librettos, festival schedules, plot summaries, images, song scores, newsletter articles and links to other sites. Created and maintained by Jim Farron & Alex Feldman.
- Glimmerglass Opera - Cooperstown, New York
- Glyndebourne Opera - Lewes, East Sussex, UK
- Metropolitan Opera - New York
- Metropolitan Opera Guild - Has a page of Opera Links.
- OPERA America - News, schedules, searchable databases
- Opera Magazine
- Opera National de Paris
- Opera Schedule Server - Tamás Máray
- Operabase - Database of 500 opera houses and festivals worldwide.
- OperaGlass - Rick Bogart provides "detailed information, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers."
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts - Maintained by Lyle Neff.
- Santa Fe Opera
- La Scala - Milano
- OrchestraList Recommended Compositions - Information about new or little-known works not available through traditional distribution channels. (Last Update: 21-Feb-97)
- Organ Web - Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Offers images and text from Organ-Cases and Organs of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Comprehensive Essay on the Art Archaeology of the Organ by Arthur George Hill, London 1883.
- Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Musiksammlung - Provides access to the Kataloge
- Pandora - Customized, personalized radio. Specify a favorite song or artist and their Music Genome Project captures the "unique and magical musical identity." I put in Kate & Anna McGarrigle and the first results were St. Charlene by Hem & Autumn Defense, Galileo by the Indigo Girls and Hands by Jewel. A similar service is Last.fm. Steve Krause compares the two in Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders.
- Patchogue-Medford Library Popular Song Index - "Index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. Approximately 78,000 popular songs are included in the 995 books which have been indexed."
- Peabody Institute - Johns Hopkins University
- Performing Arts Encyclopedia: A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress - "Guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance." Searchable by field or format, limit your search to online collections and browse by name, title and subject. Includes special presentations:
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923
- Amazing Grace
- Great Conversations in Music: A Series of Films Hosted by Eugene Istomin
- Library of Congress Concerts
- Roger Reynolds Collection
- Patriotic Melodies
- Pete Seeger Appreciation Page - Jim Capaldi, Springfield, Pennsylvania.
- Peter Nero - Official homepage includes biography, discography, schedule, and sound library..
- Peter, Paul & Mary Home Page - Official site maintained by Noel Paul Stookey provides lyrics to all recorded songs.
- Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - San Francisco. "Dedicated to historically-informed performance of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic music on original instruments since its inception in 1981." Hear live recordings via Magnatune.com.
- Philharmonia Orchestra - London
- Philip Glass - Official site has biographical information, a discography (with reviews), a categorized list of works, photographs, and a music catalog.
- Philm Freax Digital Archive - Collection of photographs of "musical giants, movie stars, celebrities and hippie freaks... originally shot for Rolling Stone, Friends, Frendz or other UK underground papers but much of what's here is unpublished." Hosted by the MetaLab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Piano Education Page - "One-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 600 pages of free information, upgraded biweekly." (West Mesa Music Teachers Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.)
- Le Piano Graphique - Play jazz on your computer keyboard. (Available in English or French.)
- Piano Page - Ronald Lee Berry, Piano Technicians Guild
- Piano World - Frank Baxter, Enfield, Connecticut
- Pitchfork Media - With forkcasts.
- Pollstar: the Concert Hotline
- Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
- Progressive Rock Web Site
- Preußen - Chronik eines deutschen Staates (Prussia - chronicle of a German state) - Offers much on music history (in German only). See (hear), for example, the audio Mozart in Berlin (Hörstück).
- Public Domain Music - With an alphabetical list of more than 3,000 songs now in the public domain in the United States.
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts - Maintained by Lyle Neff.
- Pandora - Customized, personalized radio. Specify a favorite song or artist and their Music Genome Project captures the "unique and magical musical identity." I put in Kate & Anna McGarrigle and the first results were St. Charlene by Hem & Autumn Defense, Galileo by the Indigo Girls and Hands by Jewel. A similar service is Last.fm. Steve Krause compares the two in Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders.
- Radio Beethoven (96.5FM) - Classical station broadcasting from Santiago, Chile.
- Ray Charles Online! - Biography, autobiography, discography, RealAudio clips
- Rolling Stone Radio - Joint venture of Rolling Stone Network and RealNetworks provides 12 uniquely-programmed music stations. For more see Like A Streaming Stone from the November 2nd, 1998 Wired News.
- Soundcheck - WNCY Radio, 93.9 FM., hosted by John Schaefer, has live music performances by leading musicians and composers.
With archives back to May, 2002. A sampling of the show's offering include The Heart of Song: Renée Fleming with Fred Hersch, Friday, June 17, 2005.
- Radio 3 - BBC
- Village Voice Radio
- WABC Musicradio 77 - Allan Sniffen, a Westchester County dentist and former disk jockey, maintains this site which retraces the history of this radio station that thrived in the 60s and 70s . Includes audio from the actual broadcasts, reminiscences by disk jockeys, music surveys, a list of the top hits of 1968 and photographs, and soundfiles of other radio stations.
- Rcrd Lbl [Record Label] - Network of online blogs and record labels offering drm-free [Digital rights management] mp3s.
- Reading and Transcribing White Mensural Notation - Renaissance Music Notation from the mid-16th century by Ray Brohinsky.
- Real Mingus Web - Site devoted to the work of jazz composer Charles Mingus; includes discography, music clips, biography and archival material.
- Reason to Rock - Herb Bowie's online book about rock music has articles on artists (The Kinks, Traffic, Cream) tracks (Layla, White Room, For What It's Worth) and elements (Theme of Liberation, New Forms of Collaboration, Electronic Amplification).
- Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census - University of Michigan database of information about worship books printed before 1601.
- Renzo Piano Workshop Foundation
- RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) - The International Inventory of Musical Sources "represents a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1825." Joint production of the RISM Zentralredaktion at Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and the U.S. RISM Office at Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts." RISM databases consist of the Libretto Database contains bibliographic records for more than 11,000 printed and manuscript libretti for musical stage pieces from the earliest manifestations through the early twentieth century, a Bibliographic Citations Database which "contains references for all thematic catalogues and other secondary sources," Music Manuscripts after 1600, a "graphical database of more than 200,000 bibliographic records for MSS in 24 countries" and Libraries Directory which "contains names, addresses, and other information about more than 5,500 libraries holding music materials relevant to RISM series." InfoRISM, the RISM Zentralredaktion's newsletter, is available online for 1995/96, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
- Robert Christgau - Has "written about rock and roll, popular and semipopular music, and popular culture since 1967" (mostly for the Village Voice and Playboy) and most of his writing is archived here. There are Rock & Roll Music Columns, Music and Concert Reviews, a Consumer Guide and a Bibliography. (See A conversation with Robert Christgau, Salon, May 09, 2001.)
- Robert Wilson - Official home page
- The Roches - "Semi-official home page" for Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Cleveland, Ohio museum provides biographies, discographies, bibliographies and timelines for current inductees (Eric Clapton, Earth, Wind and Fire, Lovin' Spoonful, the Moonglows, Bonnie Raitt and
James Taylor). The site is searchable, and there is biographical information on past inductees as well as online exhibitions.
- Rock and Wrap It Up - Program that collects leftover food from backstage catering and brings it to local soup kitchens.
- Rockmine - "Europe's largest independent rock music archive" has timelines,articles, interviews and photographs on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Creams, the Sex Pistols, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and the Doors.
- Rolling Stone Network - Their Artists A to Z provides biographies, discographies, videos, and links for hundreds of artists.
- Rolling Stone Radio - Joint venture of Rolling Stone Network and RealNetworks provides 12 uniquely-programmed music stations. For more see Like A Streaming Stone from the November 2nd, 1998 Wired News.
- theRolling-Stones.com - Unofficial site offers discography and lyrics.
- RootsWorld - Online magazine of world roots and folk has Artist Interviews, reviews and audio files.
- Rough Guides to Music - Include
Rock,
Classical and
World.
- Royal Holloway Music Department's Golden Pages: Links for Musicians
- Rued Langgaard: A Danish composer presented in text, pictures, music and speech - With music samples.
- Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform on Saturday, August 19, 2006.
- Schickele Mix - Official site of the "composer, musician, author, satirist" Peter Schickele.
- Schott Music International - Classical music publishing
- Schubert 200 år 1797-1828 - Lund University Electronic Library (in Swedish)
- Schubertline - "Online score service for singers."
- Selected Web Resources for Music and Musicology Educational Organizations and Institutions - Interesting collection of music resources which includes links to music libraries, individual home pages of composers and Contemporary and Computer Music is maintained by Tom Moore, Assistant Music Librarian, Scheide Music Library, Princeton University.
- Selected Web Resources for Music and Musicology Educational Organizations and Institutions - Maintained by Tom Moore, Assistant Music Librarian, Scheide Music Library, Princeton University.
- Seven Sites of the Seventies - "VH1 brings you "7 Days of 70's" from August 19 through August 25."
- Shakuhachi - Site devoted to the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. With audio links.
- Sibelius Academy - Finland
- Silvis Woodshed - Choral music MIDI files sequenced by George Silvis
- The Sixties: Australian Rock & Pop Recordings, 1964-1969 - 317 pdf document published by ScreenSound Australia, a division of the Australian Film Commission
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada / Société canadienne des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SOCAN) - Publisher of Words and Music. Annual SOCAN awards include the Le grand prix Excellence
- Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) - Provides a RealAudio Jukebox and a Quartet Lookup.
- Songfile - "View more than 62,000 lyrics from our rapidly growing database of more than 130,000 songs." (Merged with the International Lyrics Server.)
- SonicNet
- Sony Music Online
- Soundcheck - WNCY Radio, 93.9 FM., hosted by John Schaefer, has live music performances by leading musicians and composers.
With archives back to May, 2002. A sampling of the show's offering include The Heart of Song: Renée Fleming with Fred Hersch, Friday, June 17, 2005
- Southern Mosaic The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip - "Multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States." (American Memory, Library of Congress.)
- Spin Magazine Online
- Sretensky Monastery Choir - "These handsome young men, roughly 30 strong, immediately revealed a sterling choral and musical technique - absolutely knife-edge phrase attacks, crystalline diction and, above all, complete integration of the voices into a single unit." (Old Russia, Young Voices: The Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir Visits the U.S. by Barrymore Laurence Scherer, Wall Street Journal, September 8-9, 2007.
- Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links (in German only).
- Steinway - Highlights include Technical Information, Showroom, Factory Tour, Boston Pianos and Links to Steinway Artists.
- Stephen Collins Foster - Center for American Music.
- Still Going On: An Exhibit Celebrating The Life and Times of William Grant Still - Still was the first African American composer to have a symphony performed by an American orchestra. (Duke University Special Collections Library)
- Daedalus Quartet - With Sound Samples
- Emerson String Quartet - With soundclips
- St. Lawrence String Quartet - In Almost Famous: On the Road with the St. Lawrence Quartet (New Yorker, May 21, 2001) Alex Ross ascribes to them an "art of cultured chaos".
- String Quartets on the Web - Charles Hollister. See also his String Quartets - New England.
- Sunhawk Corporation - Digital music publisher and sheet music store that allows you to play and print sheet music using your home PC with a large collection of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and 20th Century compositions available.
- ABO: Association of British Orchestras
- Association of French Orchestras
- BBC Symphony Orchestra - Listen to Broadcasts, Radio 3,
- Berliner Philharmoniker
- Boston Symphony Orchestra - Includes information about the Tanglewood Festival
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Cleveland Orchestra
- Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Luzerner Sinfonieorchester
- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
- New York Philharmonic
- Orchestre de Paris
- Ottawa Symphony Orchestra
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (RSPO)
- Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester - Berlin
- San Francisco Symphony
- Sinfonieorchester Basel
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Wiener Philharmoniker - Viennna Philharmonic
- Yakima Symphony Orchestra = Listen to Podcasts of their concerts.
- Telephone Etude 1: Shakespeare Cuisinart - Jason Freeman's interactive site can be "accessed by anyone, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It asks a user to say his or her favorite Shakespeare quote and then creates a short piece of music by slicing, dicing, and layering bits and pieces of the user's voice." For further description, see Coaxing On-Hold Melodies (Your Own) From a Phone, by Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times, June 25, 2001 (free registration) and the June 25, 2001 interview by Robert Siegel, Phones and Music, on All Things Considered.
- Tower Records
- Traneumentary: Celebrating the Artistry & Recordings of John Coltrane - Joseph Vella's documentary includes interviews with musicians and track commentaries. See also Coltrane Documentary Comes Via Podcasts NPR, News & Notes, March 20, 2007. Concord Records released the Coltrane boxed Fearless Leader in 2006. Other Vella projects include An Intimate Tour Through the Music of Yo-Yo Ma (9 episodes) and Pet Sounds at 40: An Appreciation (The Beach Boys available free at iTunes.
- UBdigit - Digital Collections at the University of Buffalo (New York). Includes the J. Warren Perry Collection of Photographs with more than 1800 photographs "The focus of the collection is opera, with images of singers, productions, conductors, and concert halls. There are also photographs of ensembles and instrumentalists. Many of the photographs bear inscriptions from the artists to Dr. Perry. The documentation is international in scope and is a striking visual record of many of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century."
- Ultimate Band List - Claims to have "the Internet's largest archive of live concerts." Also has archive of interviews. (RealAudio).
- Universal Music Group
- University of North Texas Lully Web Project - Collection of the works of French Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Provides access to titles in the collection. For each work there will be a fact sheet, a plot summary, a performance history and bibliographic information about the volume in the collection.
- Van Cliburn Foundation - Sponsors of the International Piano Competition
- Variations - "Experimental prototypes of the ways in which musical scores and recording liner notes might be used in conjunction with sound recordings available online." A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the site provides Online Musical Scores for Opera Literature, Song Literature and Symphonic Literature.)
- Verve Interactive
- VH1 - Site highlights include 100 Greatest Songs, Artist of the Month, Program Schedule and News.
- Vibe Magazine
- Village Voice Radio
- Violin Making by Hans Johannsson
- Virgin Records
- Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings - 78-rpm discs by the Berliner company of Montreal, with audio files sorted by issue number, performer and title. The Music on the Home Front: Canadian Sheet Music of the First World War searchable database offers covers and bibliographical information for nearly 400 pieces of sheet music published in Canada between 1914 and 1920. (Tip: To retrieve all sheet music with full scores available, choose the index "Any Keyword" and enter the letters pdf as your search term.) Additionally, Selected recordings in the National Library of Canada’s collection of 78s, chosen for their Canadian content, were digitally reproduced for this site.
- Vocalist: the International Singing Discussion List - (28 March 2000: browser "unable to locate")
- Les Voix ensevelies - Expositions virtuel, Bibliothèque nationale de France. You can listen to excerpts:
- "L’amour est un oiseau rebelle - Emma Calvé, Carmen, 1907.
- Celeste Aida - Enrico Caruso, 1908.
- WABC Musicradio 77 - Allan Sniffen, a Westchester County dentist and former disk jockey, maintains this site which retraces the history of this radio station that thrived in the 60s and 70s . Includes audio from the actual broadcasts, reminiscences by disk jockeys, music surveys, a list of the top hits of 1968 and photographs, and soundfiles of other radio stations.
- Wagner Society of New York
- Wall Street Journal: Picks: Hit List
- Tori Amos's Music Set: The singer-songwriter chooses videos that rock - Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2006.
- Suzanne Vega: The singer-songwriter on her favorite songs about New York
By John Jurgensen, August 4, 2007.
- Rufus Wainwright: The singer-songwriter on his favorite albums - Jamin Brophy-Warren, Wall Street Journal , September 8-9, 2007.
- William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz - Photographs from the William P. Gottlieb Collection at the Library of Congress, "comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C." Searchable and organized by Name, Subject or Venue.
- Woman Composers: A Bibliography of Internet Resources - Tara Guthrie
- World Cafe - "Since 1991, World Cafe has showcased contemporary music, serving up an eclectic blend of blues, rock, folk and alternative country. David Dye hosts the program from member station WXPN in Philadelphia. Each show centers on David's "performance chat" with a featured artist or band."
- World Music Awards
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Comprehensive collection of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University. Includes Site Map.
- YouTube - Website introduced in December 2005. Although at first glace it appears to be primarily a video site (and here is inserted a caution to parents that you may see some stuff you don't want your kids to see), it's also a rich resource for music. Ken Tucker talks about YouTube in Now, Video Resurrects the Radio Star, Fresh Air from WHYY, February 15, 2006. He mentions a clip of Wilson Pickett singing Midnight Hour. Try a search for Hard Times (Come Again No More) with Rufus Wainwright, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Emmylou Harris.
- Zemerl: Jewish Song Database - Interactive database of Jewish songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish. Offers sound clips and lyrics.