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AMERICAN MUSIC
- AMERICAN MUSIC SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
- American Music Center
- ASCAP -- The American Society of Composers, Authors, Publishers
- The Society for American Music (formerly the Sonneck Society)
- SPECIFIC AMERICAN COMPOSER SITES
- The Charles Ives Society, Inc.
- Stephen Collins Foster
-
The Hoagy Carmichael Collection -- from Indiana University
- The Official Leonard Bernstein Site developed and maintained by the Leonard Bernstein Society
-
Library of Congress's American Memory Collections in the Performing Arts: Specific American
Composers:
- The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 -- Music Div., Library Of Congress
- The Aaron Copland Collection, 1900-1990 -- from the Library
of Congress
- The Irving Fine Collection: Ca. 1914-1962
- Woody Guthrie Correspondence, 1940-1950 -- From the Library of Congress
- The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 -- Music Div., Library Of Congress
- The Charles Ives Society, Inc.
- COLLECTIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (That are not composer specific)
- African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
- Nineteenth Century Song Sheets
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
- Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
- Historic American Sheet Music
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860, 1870-1885
- Now What a Time! Blues, Gospel & the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
- Omaha Indian Music
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- Voices from the DustBowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
- "We'll sing to Abe our Song:" Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
- William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
- Presidential Campaign Songs
- AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC COLLECTIONS (Excluding Library Of Congress Collections listed above)
- 19th Century California Sheet Music
-- from Berkeley University
- Historic American Sheet Music -- from Duke University Library
- Sheet Music Collections in the U.S.
- University of Oregon Historic Sheet Music Collection
- LSU's Circulating Sheet Music Collection
- 19th Century California Sheet Music
-- from Berkeley University
- MISCELLANEOUS OTHER COLLECTIONS of American Music
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for an explanation.
MUSIC IN LOUISIANA
- PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS AND VENUES
- Baton Rouge Symphony
- Louisiana Sinfonietta
- Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
- New Orleans Opera Association
- Jefferson Performing Arts Society
- Swine Palace on the LSU campus.
- INFORMATIONAL SITES
- Offbeat -- An electronic publication about Louisiana Music
- Louisiana Music from the Louisiana Department of Tourism
- Music / Sound Recording -- Louisiana Music Commission
- The Mississippi River of Song
- Louisiana Biography & Obituary Index
- MUSIC FESTIVALS
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
CHORAL
MUSIC
- American Choral Directors' Association (ACDA)
- Musica -- The International Database of Choral Music
- ChoralNet : The Internet Center for Choral Music
- Chorus America
- The Choristers' Guild
- from Garland, TX (an ecumenical organization of church choir directors of children's and youth choirs and
publishers of music and related materials)
- The Choral Public Domain Library
- Choral Music and Ensembles (from Indiana University)
VOCAL MUSIC
- Finding
Translations of Vocal Works in Books
- Bibliography of books with song translations. Includes LSU call numbers
- The Diction Domain
-- by Dr. Candace Magner and Dr. Yvonne Dechance
- This site "is dedicated to providing information about languages and diction for
singing. It includes links to on-line sites and lists of books and other resources."
- Free Translation Site Translates from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian into English and from English into these languages.
- Yahoo! Babelfish Translation service
- University of Tennessee Song Index
- The National Association of Teachers of Singing
- The Aria Database
- The Daring Diva : Website for Adventurous Singers
- Schubertline The online score service for singers
- ASCAP's Ace on the Web Database of song titles, composers, lyricists, performers, and publishers. Includes publishers' addresses.
- Britten-Pears Foundation
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
SACRED MUSIC
- The Choristers' Guild -- from Garland, TX (an ecumenical organization of church choir directors of children's and youth choirs and publishers of music and related materials)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library -- Online books in the Public Domain.
- Lutheran Hymnal.com
- Cyber Hymnal
- The Electronic Hymnal
- The Revised Common Lectionary -- from Vanderbilt Divinity University, includes text of the Scriptures
- Lectionary readings from the Presbyterian Church, USA
- Revised Common Lectionary Scripture list only, from the United Methodist Church
- The Roman Catholic Lectionary for Mass
- Calendar of the Church Year according to the Episcopal Church
- Cantica Nova's Liturgical Planning Guide
- MorningStar Publishers Liturgical Planning Guide
- Hymn Tune Index: An online searchable index
- SHAPE NOTE, SACRED HARP AND FASOLA PAGES
JAZZ AND BLUES
- WNUR-FM Jazz Web -- History, photographs, schedules.
- The Hoagy Carmichael Collection -- Indiana University
- Jazz Online
- All About Jazz
- International Association for Jazz Education
- Big Band Database
POPULAR MUSIC
- The Ultimate Band List
- World-Wide Black Radio Stations
- IASPM - International Association for the Study of Popular Music
- Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame
- Nashville Songwriters Foundation and Hall of Fame
- Singer/Songwriter Directory
- WATCH: Writers, Authors and Their Copyright Holders: database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent figures in other creative fields.
- Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University
- Hip Hop Bib Web
- POPULAR MUSIC LYRICS
FILM MUSIC
- Film Score Monthly (journal)
- UCLA's Film and Television Archives
- Film Music Society
- Film Music Cognition Bibliography
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
MUSICAL THEATER
- Theatricopia
- The American Musical Theater Reference Library
- Musicals.Net
- Cult Film Site for Musicals
- Musical Heaven: Celebrating the Musicals of Yesterday and Today
- Music Theater International
- Lyrics Page (for musical theater)
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
- SEAMUS -- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
- Institut fur Spracht und Kommunikation: Fachgebiet Kommunikationswissenschaft Here you will find data about studios concerned with the production and/or the research and teaching of electroacoustic music and data about works which have been produced or conceived at these studios. Their database contains 21,500 works from about 4,000 composers.
- CEMI -- Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia.
- Computer Music Journal
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
FOLK MUSIC
- Informational Sites
- Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America
- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads (Visitors wishing
to explore this site might try searching "horse" or "lucky".)
- Folk Song Site -- Folk song lyrics, midi-files, etc.
- Library of Congress American Folklife Center
- John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the University of Kentucky
- Center for Popular Music Middle Tennesse State University
- Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill
- Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University
- Digital Library of Appalachia The Digital Library of Appalachia provides
online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.
The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.
- Indexes
- Fiddle Tune Site
- The Mudcat Cafe -- Lyrics, midi-files for American folk songs
- Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & American
- The Traditional Ballad Index An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World
- Cantaria -- a library of traditional and contemporary folk songs, mostly from Ireland, Scotland, and England
COUNTRY MUSIC
BLUEGRASS MUSIC
OPERA
- OPERA COMPANIES
- Metropolitan Opera
- Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center
- MetOpera Database Metropolitan Opera Archives
- New York City Opera
- New Orleans Opera Association
- Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Italy
- Opera Companies on the Web
- Metropolitan Opera
- OPERA RESOURCES
- The Opera Glass opera librettos, synopses, etc. from Stanford University
- OperaBase
- Indiana University School of Music's "Opera, Opera Companies, and Music Theatre"
- Links to almost any opera site you can imagine.
- From Don to Giovanni
- An opera database that will answer almost any question you have about almost any opera.
- Oberlin Opera Resource Guide INCREDIBLE SITE!
- The Aria Database
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
-
Important Sources of Libretti in the Internet
- Opera Liber
- Opera Today
- OPERA America Supports the creation, presentation and enjoyment of
opera in America
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
CONDUCTING
- Conductors Guild
- American Choral Directors' Association (ACDA)
- American School Band Directors Association
- Big Band Database
BAND MUSIC
- John Philip Sousa: American Composer, Conductor and Patriot
- American School Band Directors Association
- International Association for Jazz Education
- Big Band Database
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Bugles Across American "Every Veteran deserve[s] a live rendition of taps played by a live Bugler. To this end, we are actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families."--from their website.
BRAILLE MUSIC
- National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped (NLS) -- The Library of Congress
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically handicapped - Music Services
- American Federation for the Blind
- Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology
MUSIC AS A BUSINESS
- The
Commercial World of Music -- from Indiana University
ONLINE MUSIC DICTIONARIES
MUSICOLOGY
- American Musicological Society
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
- Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation -- at the City University of New York
- Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature -- from Indiana University
- Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFaMusik)-
VifaMusik is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
- Online Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University
- National Online Catalogs
- Italy (then click on "OPAC dell'Indice SBN")
- German speaking countries (including selected world-wide libraries)
- Important American Libraries for Musicologists
MUSIC THEORY
- Society for Music Theory Home Page
- Music Theory Online (journal)
- Music Theory Online Dissertation Index -- hosted by the Society for Music Theory.
- Music Theory Online (journal)
- Journal of Music Theory (information about the journal)
- Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum -- Latin Music Theory databases, a project from the University of Indiana
- Saggi Musicali Italiani -- A Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics, a project from the University of Indiana
- Form and Analysis: A Virtual Textbook / by Dr. Jeff Perry, Associate Professor, LSU School of Music.
- Schenker Guide
- THEMA (THEory of the Middle Ages) -- from the University of Georgia
- Center for the History of Music Theory
and Literature -- from Indiana University
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
MUSIC EDUCATION
- Music Educators National Conference Website
- Music Education Online
- American Orff Schulwerk Association
- Music Teachers National Association
- K-12 Resources for Music Educators
- International Association for Jazz Education
- "Essentials of Music: a Glossary"
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
- Music Education Search System -- 17,000 citations from 12 music education periodicals, 4500 abstracts for pre-1965 publications and citation from the journal Boletin educativo musical.
- Music Education Resource Base A searchable citation index, 1956-present.
- Music Education Search System -- 17,000 citations from 12 music education periodicals, 4500 abstracts for pre-1965 publications and citation from the journal Boletin educativo musical.
- CAIRSS Music Database of Music Research Literature CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.
MUSIC COMPOSITION
- NACUSA The National Association of Composers
- Society of Composers, Inc.
- Southeastern Composers League
- ASCAP -- The American Society of Composers, Authors, Publishers
- Composer's Tools: An Interactive Idea List by Kenneth R. Rumery.
- Extremes of Conventional Music Notation
- WATCH: Writers, Authors and Their Copyright Holders: a database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent figures in other creative fields.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
- Center for World Music
- RootsWorld: The Online Magazine of World Roots and Folk Music
- Society for Ethnomusicology Website
- American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
- British Forum for Ethnomusicology
- British Library National Sound Archive
- Ethnomusicology OnLine (EOL)
- International Council for Traditional Music
- Music & Anthropology
- Smithsonian Global Sound
- Society for American Music
- UCLA Enthomusicology Archive
- American Gamelan Institute
- Ethnomusicology, Jazz and World Music Resources from the Gaylord Music Library, Washington University in St. Louis
- Ceolas Celtic Music Information Source
- Sephardic Voices: A Century of Recordings
DISSERTATION SITES
- Dissertation Abstracts Available through the LSU Libraries Indexes and Databases page
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music
from Indiana University
- Archive of Dissertation Abstracts of Music -- an international database
- Music Theory Online Dissertation Index -- hosted by the Society for Music Theory.
- Foreign Doctoral Dissertations hosted by the Center for Research Libraries.
- Dissertationsmeldestelle (DMS) German language dissertatins from Austria, Switzerland and Germany from 1998. Read searching instructions carefully.
- ETD Union Catalog Electronic Theses and Dissertations, a browsable index.
- LSU ETD Catalog
MUSIC RESEARCH and CITATION GUIDES
- MUSIC RESEARCH GUIDES
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music
from Indiana University
- Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)
- CAIRSS Music Database of Music Research Literature CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.
- "Electronic Resources" in
Music reference and research materials : an annotated bibliography, 5th ed.
by Vincent H. Duckles
- This site is important because more than 67% of Web site titles or URLs have changed since the book's publication in 1997.
- CITATION GUIDES
- Citing Music Sources from the Music Library at the University of Western Ontario : Follows TURABIAN, 7th ed, 2007! REVISED! GREAT SOURCE!
- ELEMENTS OF STYLE,
by William Strunk, Jr.
- Turabian Citation Format for Electronic Resourcs from Turabian, 6th ed.
- Citing the New Grove Online Style Guide These guidelines are used by the editor of Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association
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for an explanation.
SCORE AND SOUND RECORDINGS PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS
- Music Publishers and Dealers -- from Washington University Libraries
- Music Publishers -- from Indiana University Music Library NEWLY UPDATED!
- Vinyl Records Riot -- Site for hard-to-find recordings
- GEMM for hard-to-find recordings
- Berkshire Record Outlet
- Parnassus Classical Compact Discs and Records
- Ars Antiqua
MUSIC SCHOOLS
- College Music Schools Address Book -- brought to you by the University of Alabama School of Music
- College Music Society
- Music Libraries in the United States
MUSIC LIBRARIANSHIP
- Music Library Association
- Southeast Music Library Association (SEMLA) Homepage
- Music Library Association (MLA) Clearinghouse
- Copyright for Music Librarians -- Sponsored by the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association.
- Music Libraries in the United States
SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF MUSIC
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
- American Viola Society
- Bass - Double Bass
- Viola da Gamba Society Page
- Arto Wikla's String Calculator page
- String Music Sources -- On Indiana's "Instruments" page
- American String Teachers Association
- Cello Music Collection, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- Harp Music Wiki from BYU.
WIND INSTRUMENTS
- WOODWINDS
- National Flute Association
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection at the Library of Congress
- International Clarinet Association
- Oboe Family Images
Photos of historical instruments in the oboe family
- International Double Reed Society Homepage
- A Bibliography of writings about the Oboe and Bassoon, 17th-19th Centuries--from Indiana University
- Bassoon Family Images
Photos of historical instruments in the bassoon family
- Oboe and Reed Information--
from Arizona State University
- North American Saxophone Alliance Oboe Links from ASU
- Wind Music Sources -- On Indiana's "Instruments" page
- BRASS
- International Trumpet Guild
- Bugles Across American "Every Veteran deserve[s] a live rendition of taps played by a live Bugler. To this end, we are actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families."--from their website.
- Online Trombone Journal
- International Trombone Association
- International Tuba-Euphonium Association (ITEA)
- Embouchures.com
- Brass Family Images
Photos of historical instruments in the brass family
- Brass Music Sources -- On Indiana's "Instruments" page
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation. COMPOSERS
- Composer Necrology -- Composer birth and death dates from Washington University in St. Louis
- Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Online: Composers Bureau -- lots of hard-to-find information found here.
- Classical Composers' Archive -- biographical information and photos included
WOMEN IN MUSIC
- International Alliance for Women in
Music
- "A coalition of professional composers, conductors, performers, musicologists, educators, librarians and lovers of music, men as well as women, the IAWM encourages the dissemination of music by women composers."
- Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930 from University of California, Davis
- Women Composers Database
20TH AND 21ST
CENTURY MUSIC
- Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers -- Files include information about publications, membership, conferences, and activities.
- SEAMUS -- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
- CEMI -- Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music: 20th Century
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music: 21st Century
- The Charles Ives Society, Inc.
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
19TH CENTURY MUSIC
- Doctoral Dissertations
in Music: Romantic
- Digitization of Felix Mendelssohn 1st editions
- Richard Wagner Archive
- 19th Century California Sheet Music
17TH & 18TH CENTURY MUSIC
- The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM)
- The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Homepage (SSCM)
- Doctoral Dissertations in
Music: Classical
- SSCM-L, a discussion and mailing list for the SSCM
- To subscribe to SSCM-L, please visit the following link:
https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/sscm-l to enter your e-mail address
and create a password. You will receive an e-mail confirmation that will
also tell you how to change your delivery preferences and unsubscribe.
If you have any questions, please e-mail .
- Specific 17th & 18th Century Composer Sites
- Bach Cantatas page
- Bach Bibliography: For the Global Community
- Neue Mozart Ausbage - Stand der Edition (current edition)
- Neue Mozart-Ausgabe - Digital Mozart Edition
- Mozart's Musical Diary--Virtual book--Once you
are in this site, find "Mozart's Musical Diary" in the list of books available.
- The Beethoven House in Bonn, manuscripts and documents.
- The Manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
- The Beethoven Bibliography Database from San Jose State University.
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
EARLY MUSIC
- Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum -- Latin Music Theory databases at the University of Indiana
- Gregorian Chant Home Page -- from Princeton University
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music -- (DIAMM) Arts and Humanities Research Board in the United Kingdom
- Doctoral Dissertations in
Music: Middle Ages
- Doctoral Dissertations in
Music: Antiquity
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation. 
LIBRARY CATALOGS
FREE ON-LINE MUSIC
DICTIONARIES
- Dolmetsch Online Music Dictionary Includes thousands of
musical terms
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
- Essentials of Music Online Glossary This glossary
was created to work with Sony Music's Essentail Classics series of recordings
- Grove Concise Dictionary of Music
VARIOUS TOPICS
- Librarians' Index to the Internet: MUSIC
- Melody Hound OR "Name this Tune"
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians from WOI Public Radio, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
- Themefinder Need help finding the title of a tune? Use this.
AIDS FOR WRITING PROGRAM NOTES
- Gaylord Music Library Necrology file from Washington University Libraries
PATHFINDERS
ON-LINE DATABASES
- RILM Can be used on campus or logging into your Paws account.
- Music Index Can be used on campus or logging into your Paws account.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
- Canadian Music Periodical Index
- Music Education Search System -- 17,000 citations from 12 music education periodicals, 4500 abstracts for pre-1965 publications and citation from the journal Boletin educativo musical.
MUSIC WEB PAGES
- LSU School of Music
- Indiana University Music Page
- American University Library Homepages
- NPR Homepage
- WRKF Homepage
- Melody Hound OR "Name this Tune"
SEARCHING THE INTERNET
- LSU Libraries' List of Search Engines for the Internet
- Yahoo
- Excite
- Web Crawler -- For keyword searching of internet databases.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet: MUSIC
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- Composer Necrology file -- Composer birth and death dates
- Bibliography to themes in music -- Reference Sources to Music about Particular Topics,Themes or Ideas.
PERIODICALS
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Provides access to free, full text, quality
controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- Society for Music Theory
- Journal of Music Theory
- Computer Music Journal
- Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
- Offbeat -- New Orleans' and Louisiana's Music Magazine
- Online Trombone Journal
- Gramofile -- A large archive of classical
cds and reviews
What's this? Click HERE
for an explanation.
COPYRIGHT
- Know Your Copy Rights: Resources for Teaching Faculty. Published by the American Association of Research Libraries (ACRL). (includes a brochure that can be downloaded for free)
- Copyright for Music Librarians -- Sponsored by the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association.
- The Four Factors of Fair Use Test from UT Austin.
START HERE in your search for copyright clearance for your dissertation! - The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
- U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
This categorized but unannotated directory provides numerous links to sites covering copyright resources, performance rights organizations, mechanical and other rights organizations (U.S. and international), songwriter resources, publishers, general music resources, on-line services, software, books, trades, magazines, and publications. From the Nashville Pop Songwriters Association International. - WATCH Writers, Authors and Their Copyright Holders: a database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent figures in other creative fields
MUSIC IN PUBLIC DOMAIN
- Public Domain Music
- Rain Music.com
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
- Free Sheet Music
- On-line Music Scores to Download -- website of Dr. Gordon Callon, Acadia University
- Lutheran Hymnal.com
- Cyber Hymnal
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library the free public domain sheet music
library.
IMSLP is primarily a Canadian site and so there will be pieces that are public domain only there. At present due to administrative reasons, scores not found to be public domain in the US are blocked, but soon they will be available. Users are asked to read the tutorials on copyright and know and follow copyright laws of their respective countries.
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