Music Resources:
Music Webliography: Web Resources for Musicians

POPULAR MUSIC LYRICS
• LyricSearch
• Lyrics.com
• Lyrics Connection
• Lyrics of Songs
• Lyrics World

FILM MUSIC

• UCLA's Film and Television Archives
• Film Music Society

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MUSICAL THEATER

• 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

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

• SEAMUS -- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
• Institut fur Spracht und Kommunikation: Fachgebiet Kommunikationswissenschaft Here you will find data about studios concerned with the production and/or the research and teaching of electroacoustic music and data about works which have been produced or conceived at these studios. Their database contains 21,500 works from about 4,000 composers.
  • Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin
  • The International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music
• CEMI -- Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia.

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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.
  • Cultural Equity Sound files collected by Alan Lomax. First time all are available free of charge

• Indexes
  • Fiddle Tune Site
  • The Mudcat Cafe -- Lyrics, midi-files for American folk songs
  • 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

• Country Music Hall of Fame

BLUEGRASS MUSIC

• IBMA-International Bluegrass Music Association

OPERA

• OPERA COMPANIES
  • Metropolitan Opera
    • Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center
    • MetOpera Database Metropolitan Opera Archives
  • New York City Opera
  • New Orleans Opera Association
  • Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Italy
  • Opera Companies on the Web
  
  
  
• OPERA 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.
  • Oberlin Opera Resource Guide INCREDIBLE SITE!
  • The Aria Database
  • Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
  • Opera Liber
  • Opera Today
  • OPERA America Supports the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera in America

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CONDUCTING

• Conductors Guild
• American School Band Directors Association

BAND MUSIC

• John Philip Sousa: American Composer, Conductor and Patriot
• American School Band Directors Association
• International Association for Jazz Education
• Band Music from the Civil War Era
• Bugles Across American "Every Veteran deserve[s] a live rendition of taps played by a live Bugler. To this end, we are actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families."--from their website.

AUDITION INFORMATION SITES

• Musical Chairs--Audition information for all types of music jobs

BRAILLE MUSIC

• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) -- The Library of Congress
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically handicapped - Music Services
• American Federation for the Blind
• Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology
  

MUSIC AS A BUSINESS

• The Commercial World of Music -- from Indiana University
• American Federation of Musicians

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).
• National Online Catalogs
  • Italy (to search in English, click "English" in the top bar)
  • German speaking countries (including selected world-wide libraries)
• Important American Libraries for Musicologists
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Library
  • University of Rochester, Eastman Conservatory, Libraries
  • University of Illinois Libraries, Urbana
  • Indiana University Libraries

MUSIC THEORY

• Society for Music Theory Home Page
  • Music Theory Online (journal)
  • Music Theory Online Dissertation Index -- hosted by the Society for Music Theory.
• Journal of Music Theory (information about the journal)
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum -- Latin Music Theory databases, a project from the University of Indiana
• Saggi Musicali Italiani -- A Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics, a project from the University of Indiana
• Form and Analysis: A Virtual Textbook / by Dr. Jeff Perry, Associate Professor, LSU School of Music.
• Schenker Guide
• Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature -- from Indiana University

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MUSIC EDUCATION

• Music Educators National Conference Website
  • National Standards for Music Education
  • The School Music Program: A New Vision: The K-12 National Standards, PreK Standards, and What They Mean to Music Educators
• Music Education Online
• American Orff Schulwerk Association
• Music Teachers National Association
• K-12 Resources for Music Educators
• International Association for Jazz Education
• 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.
• 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
  • Applied Ethnomusicology Section
• American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
• British Forum for Ethnomusicology
• British Library National Sound Archive
  • Sound Archive Catalogue
• Ethnomusicology OnLine (EOL)
• International Council for Traditional Music
• Music & Anthropology
• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Society for American Music
• UCLA Enthomusicology Archive
• American Gamelan Institute
• Ceolas Celtic Music Information Source
• Sephardic Voices: A Century of Recordings

DISSERTATION SITES

• Dissertation Abstracts Available through the LSU Libraries Indexes and Databases page--Must have university affiliation to view
• Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
• Music Theory Online Dissertation Index -- hosted by the Society for Music Theory.
• Dissertationsmeldestelle (DMS) German language dissertatins from Austria, Switzerland and Germany from 1998. Read searching instructions carefully.
• ETD Union Catalog Electronic Theses and Dissertations, a browsable index.
• LSU ETD Catalog

MUSIC RESEARCH and CITATION GUIDES

MUSIC RESEARCH GUIDES
• Doctoral Dissertations in Music from Indiana University
• Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)
• CAIRSS Music Database of Music Research Literature CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.

CITATION GUIDES
• Citing Music Sources from the Music Library at the University of Western Ontario : Follows TURABIAN, 7th ed, 2010! REVISED! GREAT SOURCE!
• ELEMENTS OF STYLE, by William Strunk, Jr.
• EasyBib An automated bibliographic citation creator. "We cite according to the 7th ed. of MLA, 6th ed. of APA, and 15th ed. of Chicago (7th ed. Turabian)."

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SCORE AND SOUND RECORDINGS PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

• Music Publishers -- from Indiana University Music Library
• 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

• Music Libraries in the United States
• NASM (National Association of Schools of Music)

MUSIC LIBRARIANSHIP

• Music Library Association
• Southeast Music Library Association (SEMLA) Homepage
• Music Library Association (MLA) Clearinghouse -- Sponsored by the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association.
• Music Libraries in the United States

SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF MUSIC

• Music Acoustics
• MuSICA (Music & Science Information Computer Archive)

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.
• International Harp Archive--scans available
• American Federation of Musicians

WIND INSTRUMENTS

WOODWINDS
• National Flute Association
• Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection at the Library of Congress
• Composers of Flute Music by Dr. John Ranck
• International Clarinet Association
• 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
• Oboe and Reed Information-- from Arizona State University
• Oboe Links from Arizona State University
• North American Saxophone Alliance
• Wind Music Sources -- On Indiana's "Instruments" page
• American Federation of Musicians

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 Music Sources -- On Indiana's "Instruments" page
• American Federation of Musicians

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COMPOSERS

• Composer Necrology -- Composer birth and death dates from Washington University in St. Louis
• Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Online: Composers Bureau -- lots of hard-to-find information found here.
• Classical.net Composer Lists Composer birthdays, Death dates, Timelines, Thematic Index abbreviations, and many more lists included here.
• Classical Composers' Archive -- biographical information and photos included

WOMEN IN MUSIC

• International Alliance for Women in Music
  "A coalition of professional composers, conductors, performers, musicologists, educators, librarians and lovers of music, men as well as women, the IAWM encourages the dissemination of music by women composers."
• 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

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19TH CENTURY MUSIC

• Doctoral Dissertations in Music
• 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
• SSCM-L, a discussion and mailing list for the SSCM
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  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 in English
• 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 Beethoven Bibliography Database from San Jose State University.

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EARLY MUSIC

• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum -- Latin Music Theory databases at the University of Indiana
• Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music -- (DIAMM) Arts and Humanities Research Board in the United Kingdom
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology

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LIBRARY CATALOGS

• Links to libraries in the region, nation and world
• Library Congress Online Catalogs
  
  

FREE ON-LINE MUSIC DICTIONARIES

• Dolmetsch Online Music Dictionary Includes thousands of musical terms
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
  
  

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

• Pulitzer Prize Winning Composers
• Sources for Music and Dance
• Sources on Musical Instruments

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

  NPR Homepage

  • E-mail addresses for NPR programs

  WRKF Homepage

  Melody Hound OR "Name this Tune"

SEARCHING THE INTERNET

• LSU Libraries' List of Search Engines for the Internet
• Google
• Yahoo
• Excite
• Web Crawler -- For keyword searching of internet databases.
• Ipl2-Librarians' Index to the Imternet

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

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TRANSLATION GUIDES

• Multiligual Resources and Translating Services
• Free TranslationA great translation guide

COPYRIGHT

• Know Your Copy Rights: Resources for Teaching Faculty. Published by the American Association of Research Libraries (ACRL). (includes a brochure that can be downloaded for free)
• Copyright for Music Librarians -- Sponsored by the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association.
• Copyright Crash Course from UT Austin.
• 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
  • Finding Sheet Music on the Net
  • Sheet Music Resources on the Net
  • Pianists' Guide to the Internet
• Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
• Free Sheet Music
• On-line Music Scores to Download -- website of Dr. Gordon Callon, Acadia University
• Lutheran Hymnal.com
• Net Hymnal
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library the free public domain sheet music library.
  IMSLP is primarily a Canadian site and so there will be pieces that are public domain only there. At present due to administrative reasons, scores not found to be public domain in the US are blocked, but soon they will be available. Users are asked to read the tutorials on copyright and know and follow copyright laws of their respective countries.
• The Internet Archive The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
  
  
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