Internet Resources in Music

Arts Library, UCSB

UCSB Arts Library Information Guide
Music Collection Development Policy
Ethnomusicology Bibliographic Guide
Finding 20th-Century Composers' Manuscripts
Bassoon: A Resource and Information Guide
Cello: A Resource and Information Guide
Double Bass: A Resource and Information Guide
Electronic Journals: Music
Flute: A Resource and Information Guide
Guitar: A Resource and Information Guide
Horn: A Resource and Information Guide
Interdisciplinary Indexes and Databases for Music Research
Introduction to Music Information Resources
The M Classes
Pegasus: Searching for Music
Popular Music Reference Guide
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: User's Guide
Songs: A Finding Guide
Vinyl 101
Viola: A Resource and Information Guide
Violin: A Resource and Information Guide

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International Music Organizations

Provided by the College Music Society. Search for music organizations around the world.

American Musical Instrument Society

American Musicological Society

Links to information about AMS officers, committees, awards and fellowships, and annual meetings.

ASCAP

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, a performing rights organization of over 68,000 composers, lyricists and music publishers.

BMI

Broadcast Music Inc., a performing rights organization that represents more than 160,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers with a repertory of more than 3,000,000 works in all areas of music.

Chamber Music America

A national nonprofit service organization to promote the growth and understanding of chamber music. Its programs include awards, grants, advocacy, educational services, and technical services.

Early Music America

A service organization for historical performance in North America.

Guitar Foundation of America

International Alliance for Women in Music

An organization founded in 1995 that celebrates the contributions of all women musicians, past, present and future.

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centers

International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections

International Double Reed Society

International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)

International Federation for Choral Music

International Horn Society

NAMM

The International Music Products Assn. (formerly National Assn. of Music Merchants), homebase for the music retail industry.

International Musicological Society

International Society for Contemporary Music

International Trumpet Guild

Mozart Society of America

Established in 1996, the MSA provides a forum for communication among scholars and students doing research on Mozart and other areas of music of the late eighteenth century. The site provides tables of contents of the society's newsletter, published twice a year (January and August). The MSA organizes a study session at each annual fall meeting of the American Musicological Society contributes papers to a session of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies each spring.

Music Library Association

Useful features of the Web site include the MLA Job List and newsletter; information on MLA-L, a listserv for discussion of issues related to music librarianship; the "Directory of Library School Offerings in Music Librarianship"; and an online brochure entitled "Music Librarianship: Is It for You?"

Music Publishers' Association

North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents

San Francisco Early Music Society

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States

Provides a forum for composers, performers, and teachers of music that is created or performed by electronic means.

Society for Ethnomusicology

Promotes the research, study, and performance of music of all cultures and historical periods, and provides a forum for promotion and discussion of current scholarly research.

Society for American Music

Formerly known as the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar Sonneck (1873-1928), pioneering scholar and bibliographer of American music and head of the Music Division of the Library of Congress from 1902 to 1917. The society promotes the study and performance of American music of all styles and periods.

Society for Music Theory

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Société française de musicologie

Among the materials to be found at the site are tables of contents of all issues of the society's journal, Revue de Musicologie (ML1 .R48); a directory of French universities and research centers with programs in musicology; tables of contents of selected proceedings and other collections; a list of publications of the society; a list of links to musicological societies, journals, and other useful resources.

Bach Bibliography
The Hector Berlioz Web site
The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
Composers Bureau Online
The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990
Directory of Composers on the Net
Leos Janacek Gesellschaft
Picture Gallery of 1000 Classical Composers
The Roger Reynolds Collection
Society of Composers
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

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DW3: Classical Music Resources: Genres: Electronic Music
DW3: Classical Music Resources: Organizations and Centers for Scholarly Research: Electronic Music
Classical MIDI Archives
Electronic Music Foundation
IRCAM

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Copyright Law & Graduate Research
Copyright Management Center
Copyright for Music Librarians - Music Library Association
Copyright and Fair Use (Research Guide from UCSB)
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Music in the Public Domain
UC Copyright
U.S. Copyright Office Homepage

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Andante

Searchable directory of contact information (phone, fax, Web site, address) for more than 9,000 classical musicians and ensembles worldwide. Ensembles include instrumental and vocal chamber as well as orchstras and choruses. Search by artist or ensemble name and/or by category. The database also includes artist management companies.

Arts over America: Directory of State Arts Agencies and Regional Arts Organizations

Associations Unlimited

Provides information on 455,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations of all types. Search by association name or acronym, location, subject, and many other parameters. For 2,600 U.S. national organizations, provides full-text association materials (brochures, pamphlets, etc.). A search on the subject descriptor music retrieves nearly 2,000 hits.

Directory of Music Collections in Canada

A current, searchable database providing information on major music collections in Canadian institutions, published by the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (CAML).

Directory of Music Faculties

A searchable database maintained by the College Music Society. Search by name, city, or state/province for conservatories, music departments, and schools of music in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Provides contact information, including links to home pages.

Golden Pages

Provides links to web sites of music departments, schools, and conservatories worldwide. From the music department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Music Publishers Association Directory of Music Publishers

From the Music Publishers' Association. A directory of music publishers, providing contact information and links to web sites. Indexed by publishers' imprints.

Strings Resource Guide On-Line

International directory of more than 2,200 listings for makers and dealers of all types of string products, auction houses, appraisers, etc. Search by name or location (country, state, city), or browse by product type and location.

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Arts Connection

A large collection of arts-related sites. Browse by category or search by keyword.

Canadian Information by Subject: Music

Well-maintained collection of links on music in Canada from the National Library of Canada.

Internet Resources for Music Scholars

From the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.

Italian Music Homepage

A vast number of links and general information for Italian music libraries, conservatories, government institutions, performing ensembles, composers, journals, etc.

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Music

Part of the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE (Sun Software, Information and Technology Exchange) and funded by the Library of California, the Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of Web resources selected and evaluated by librarians.

Maarten's Music Links

Especially strong for world-music resources.

Music Resources

From the Sibelius Academy, Finland.

Voice of the Shuttle: Music and Dance Page

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

From the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University. Large, well organized, and well maintained.

WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists

From the American Musicological Society.

African Music Encyclopedia

Ali Akbar Khan Homepage

Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads

Broadside ballads are songs that were published in Britain on single sheets (broadsides) and sold for a penny or half-penny from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries. This database provides bibliographic access via a searchable Web database to 30,000 of the ballads from the collections of the Bodleian Library, along with digitized images of each ballad sheet. Note that most of the sheets do not contain musical notation, but for those that do, sound files are included.

Digital Traditions Folksong Database

The Egyptian Ney Page

A site devoted to the Ney, an end-blown flute of Arabic music. The site includes definitions, information on history and performance, photos. There are also songs, including both transcriptions and sound files in RealAudio.

Ethnomusicology/Folk Music/World Music

Links from the University of Washington

Fiddler's Companion

Frontera Collection of Mexican American Music

Archive of Mexican-American music from UCLA. Search functions and details about the collection are provided in both English and Spanish. Catalog includes record label images, bibliographic information, and truncated audio files; only UCLA patrons have access to complete audio files.

Global Music Archive

Internet Chinese Music Archive (SunSite)

Lark in the Morning

Articles on folk instruments.

Muhammed Abdel Wahab Music Archive

Music of Puerto Rico

Explores the full breadth of Puerto Rican music, with descriptions of native music genres including danza, folk music, plena, bomba, and salsa, as well as related genres such as the Cuban son, merengue, bolero, and jazz. There are descriptions and photos of native musical instruments and an extensive collection of artist biographies (mostly Puerto Ricans) from all genres, each with a discography, photo, and sample audio clips of their music. Also included are a glossary of terms, search engine, and links to related sites.

Omaha Indian Music

From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Reggae Archives

Smithsonian Folkways

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. "A multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dustjackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States" from 31 March through 14 June 1939. Also includes photographs from the Lomaxes' other recording trips through the South.

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

Union Songs

Texts and music for over a hundred union songs, as well as bibliographies, a discography, and links to related sites.

Virtual Instrument Museum

Online museum of the World Musical Instrument Collection of the Music Department, Wesleyan University.

Analysis Index

Access to program notes and descriptive literature on musical compositions. From the music library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index

A searchable online database of over 135,000 songs in over 1,300 collections in California library system reference centers. Searchable by title only (keyword, phrase, complete title).

Canadian Music Periodical Index

"Catalogue of articles from Canadian music periodicals dating from the late 19th century to the present, including music journals, newsletters and magazines." Browse by name, subject, or periodical title. A guide for simple and advanced searches is provided as well.

CPANDA: Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online

Includes records for in-progress and completed dissertations in musicology reported since 1995, as well as the contents of all printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. Search by author or keyword, or browse by subject. The site includes an online registration form for reporting a dissertation topic or completed document.

Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index

An expanded, fully searchable online version of the National Tune Index (in the UCSB music library: Ref ML128 .S3 K4 1980 and Ref ML120 .U5 C35 1989). Searchable fields include titles, first lines, burdens, recitatives, music incipits, names, and theater works.

Folk Music Index

An index to folk songs and tunes on LP and in selected printed collections.

Hofmeister XIX

A searchable database to the Hofmeister Monatsberichte (monthly catalogs), 1829-1900, published by Friedrich Hofmeister. The catalogs are a detailed source of information about music publication in the nineteenth century, especially in German-language areas.

Index to Renaissance Vocal Music in Collections

A work-in-progress from York University in Toronto. Search from pulldown menus for composer, anthology, and/or number of voices. Title searching is not available.

Jazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker

The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater, and Dance. A filmography of jazz and blues musicians' involvement in cinema and television programs, in a database of more than 14,000 productions. Also features a short history of jazz in motion pictures.

Motet Online Database

Indexes motets in manuscripts and printed editions from 1475 to 1600. Contains records for 33,000 motet and Mass Proper occurrences.

Music Dictionary Online

An extensive source for concise definitions of music terms, including music history, education, theory, performance, etc. Also includes terms from music-related fields such as other performing arts, fine arts, literature, etc.

Musipedia

A music search engine with which you can identify a musical work if all you know if the melody. Includes classical, popular, and traditional melodies as well as national anthems. The music library also has printed indexes to melodies of classical vocal and instrumental music. See The Directory of Musical Tunes and Themes, Ref ML128 .I65 P33; A Dictionary of Musical Themes, Ref ML128 .I65 B3 1975; and A Dictionary of Opera and Song Themes, Ref ML128 .V7 B3 1966.

Necrology Index of Musicians

Updated daily. Maintained by the staff of the Gaylord Music Library at Washington University in St. Louis. Information is gathered from the current music press. Coverage: 1991 to present.

RoJaRo (Roots/Jazz/Rock) Index

Online index of periodicals dealing with popular music and jazz. A key to articles, discographies, performance and recordings reviews in the music press worldwide from January 1992 to date, including record-label information. Based in Norway.

Show Music on Record Database: Library of Congress

Database and discography of American musicals, theatre productions and films and their recordings on cylinders, records, and compact discs. Entries include recordings from the late 19th through the 21st centuries, and feature original cast recordings, original soundtracks, and related commercial releases. Information includes cast, composer, and producer credits, record label and catalog number, and song listings.

Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database

"The database describes complete, abridged, and excerpted nationally and regionally distributed TV productions of operas, operettas, and musicals produced in the United States" with information on date televised, soloists, venue, distributor, subsequent video releases, and more.

UTK Song Index

An index to ca. 50,000 songs in collections owned by the music library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Search by title, first line, song type, accompaniment type, composer, author, language, geographical/ethnic source, and other parameters.

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International Horn Society

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

From Musica Antiqua/Iowa State University (includes sound files)

Guitar Foundation of America

Instrument Encyclopedia

This Musical Heritage Network (MHN) site provides general and historical information for musical instruments from around the world. For some instruments, it provides references and the ability to listen to sample sounds of the instrument. It provides a glossary and links to related sites. The information is categorized by the major instrument types, the Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme, and by geographic region.

International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections

A joint project of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections (CIMCIM) and the American Musical Instrument Society.

International Trumpet Guild

Internet Cello Society

Created to bring together cellists and cello enthusiasts from around the globe, the Internet Cello Society offers a comprehensive online resource, covering every aspect of the violoncello world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Musical Instruments

Organ Historical Society

The Oud

History, photographs, playing, tuning, artists. The section on playing includes information on the Arabic maqamat and Turkish makamlar, rhythmic modes (Arabic iqa'at), and more.

Piano Page

Strings Buyer's Guide

A searchable database for locating companies and individuals who provide goods and services to string players. Provided by Strings magazine.

Virtual Instrument Museum

Online museum of the World Musical Instrument Collection of the Music Department, Wesleyan University.

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Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries
Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW
National Library Catalogs Worldwide
Public Libraries of Europe
Research Libraries Group (RLG) member libraries
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog

Archive of World Music, Harvard University
Bagaduce Music Lending Library
Birmingham Music Library (UK)
Blues Archive, University of Mississippi
The British Library -- The BL online catalog now includes the entire Catalogue of Printed Music (Ref. ML136 .L8 B73)!
Center for Research Libraries
CIC Music Libraries
Cleveland Institute of Music
Columbia University
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
Fine Arts Library, Arkansas Valley Wind & Percussion Ensemble
Glenn Gould Archive
Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Indiana University
James Madison University
Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room: "I Hear America Singing"
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Ohio University
Peabody Conservatory of Music
New York Public Library, Music Division
Rice University
Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
University of California, San Diego
University of Chicago Jazz Archive
University of Illinois
University of Michigan
University of North Texas
Yale University

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Acadia Early Music Archives

An HTML frontend to this FTP archive of downloadable scores of early music. Other related links.

American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920

A virtual collection from the American Memory project of the Library of Congress.

Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music

A fully searchable, international register of in-progress and completed music dissertations. Many are not included in Digital Dissertations or Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.

Band Music from the Civil War Era

From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. A digital collection of American brass band music from the second half of the nineteenth century. The site includes audio files, photographs, and a historical overview of the American brass band movement written by Jon Newsom, Chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music

By the Committee on the Status of Women of the Society for Music Theory. Articles, books, essays, review, anthologies, bibliographies, etc. Browse by category or browse the full bibliography; not searchable by author or keyword.

CANTUS

An index of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the Divine Office. The site includes a table of feast names in Latin and English. Currently maintained at the University of Western Ontario.

Classical Music Navigator

Provides an introduction to classical music by presenting information on composers, important works, styles, and influences. Includes a geographical index of composers.

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG)

High resolution digital images of the medieval manuscripts in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)

The goal of this project is to digitize and digitally enhance all of the sources of British pre-Reformation polyphony in order to conserve and provide access to these mostly fragmentary and often poorly legible manuscripts. Although many digital images have already been created, none are yet available from this web site because of copyright concerns.

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada

"The Canadian Encyclopedia web site now offers the full text of the prestigious Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, with some 4000 articles on all aspects of music in Canada." Among the topics: biographies, associations, concert halls, festivals, orchestras, and record companies. The encyclopedia is available in English or French.

Extremes of Conventional Music Notation

Forthcoming Conferences in Music

Programs, calls for papers, and general information (including conference web sites) on scholarly conferences. Organized by year, 1993 to the present. Site includes other web sites listing conferences in music.

La Trobe University Library: Medieval Music Database

Gregorian Chant Homepage

A directory of web resources relevant to chant scholarship. Maintained by Peter Jeffrey, chant scholar and professor of music at Princeton University.

Hymn Tune Index

See Nicholas Temperley, The Hymn Tune Index: A Census of English-Language Hymn Tunes in Printed Sources from 1535 to 1820, 4 vols., 1998 (Ref ML128 .H8 T46 1998). A web version of the database is in progress.

Index to Renaissance Vocal Music in Collections

A work-in-progress from York University in Toronto. Search from pulldown menus for composer, anthology, and/or number of voices. Title searching is not available.

The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection

From the University of North Texas Music Library. The site includes full-text PDF files of the twenty-one first and second editions of Lully's operas and ballets in UNT's collection. There is also a multimedia thematic catalog of the works, bibiographic and discographic information, and more.

Juilliard Manuscript Collection

Digitized collection of 138 autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers' proofs, and first editions.

Lexicon Musicum Latinum Medii Aevi (LML)

The LML, founded in 1961, is a dictionary of medieval Latin music terminology based on careful collation of hundreds of music-theoretical writings from the ninth century up to ca. 1500. It is being issued in traditional print format (see Ref ML108 .L487 1992), but the web site contains an extensive bibliography of secondary literature on medieval Latin music theory as well as an extensive source list, both of which are continually updated.

Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae

Includes an inventory of MMB's microfilm collection of 680 sources of Byzantine chant.

Motet Online Database

Indexes motets in manuscripts and printed editions from 1475 to 1600. Contains records for 33,000 motet and Mass Proper occurrences.

Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography

An ongoing project to develop an annotated, comprehensive, searchable bibliography of published literature and theses on musical borrowing (i.e., the use of existing music) in Western music.

Music Theory and History Online

Neue Mozart Ausgabe

The web site of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (NMA), the Mozart complete works edition (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1955-). The site includes an index of all Mozart's works in the NMA, both published and yet to be published; an autographs index that gives information on the locations of all of Mozart's autographs; and a list of his sketch leaves. Also provided is information on the Database of Mozart Sources, news concerning the edition and related research, and contact information.

New York Philharmonic - Program Notes

Program notes from New York Philharmonic concerts back to 2002.

Oxford Chant Group

Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census (RELICS)

An online, ongoing bibliography of more than 13,500 liturgical books from before 1601. Searchable by multiple parameters. Sponsored by the University of Michigan.

Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520

Répertoire Internationale de Littérature Musicale (RILM)

RILM news and information, including an online form with which authors can submit abstracts of their recently published articles or books.

Saggi musicali italiani

Full-text, searchable database of major Italian music treatises from the Renaissance to the present. Graphics and music examples are included.

TmiWeb: Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum

A growing online collection of full-text Italian Renaissance and early baroque music treatises. Text is keyword searchable. Graphics and music examples not included. From Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum

A full-text, searchable database of Latin music treatises from Augustine's De musica through the sixteenth century. Graphics and music examples are included.

University of North Texas Rare Book Room

Full-text images of early music editions and manuscripts, most housed in the UNT Music Library's Rare Book Room.

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Music Theory and History Online

musictheory.net

Music theory lessons online: notation, rhythm, scales, accidentals, intervals, key signatures, harmony, etc. Includes "trainers" for skill development, and utilities for generating chords, printing staff paper, and generating 12-tone matrices.

Rhythm and Meter: A Bibliographic Glossary

An ongoing project from the School of Music at Indiana University. Bibliographic citations of articles, books, and theses include extensive annotations as well as keywords links to the glossary. New citations, annotations, and glossary terms may be submitted online.

Schenker Guide

Society for Music Theory

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allrecordslabels.com

A searchable, browsable database of over fifteen thousand record label web sites.

Grammy Awards

Searchable database of all Grammy award winners. From the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).

Music from TV Commercials

Mutopia

Collection of several hundred classical music scores available in various text formats. Browse by composer, instrument, or musical styles, or search by keyword.

Pulitzer Prize in Music: 1943-2002

See the UCSB Popular Music and Jazz research guide.

General | Blues | Jazz

General

All Music Guide

A guide to available recordings in a variety of genres: rock, country, jazz, blues, world, folk, bluegrass, rap, and more. For each major genre, there are signed essays on numerous subgenres and on developments across various chronological periods. Thousands of albums are reviewed and rated, with narrative accounts of each artist or group. Styles, glossary terms, albums, artists, periods, etc. are thoroughly cross-linked so that the user can navigate easily among related concepts.

Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

An ongoing project to provide exegesis for Grateful Dead lyrics. Within the full texts of songs, words or phrases are linked to identifying explanations. Includes an in-progess discography arranged alphabetically by album; links lead from the song titles to the full annotated lyrics.

BigBands Database

This large database devoted to big band and other popular music is searchable by band name, musician, song title, or other keyword. May also be browsed by region (American, Canadian, British, or European bands). Includes information on current bands as well as historical material. The Tunesmiths Database contains short biographical information on hundreds of popular music composers and lyricists. Other resources include a glossary, Hit Parade winners 1935-55, and essays on a variety of topics.

Discogs

"Discogs (short for 'discographies') is a database of music, organized around artists, labels, and their releases. Our goal is to build a complete catalog of electronic and underground dance music releases (techno, house, trance, ambient, jungle, etc.)."

Jazz/Blues Archives, Collections, and Museums

From the Chicago Jazz Archive of the Regenstein Library, University of Chicago. A list of links to libaries, archives, and research centers that have significant holdings of jazz and blues materials.

NPR's 100 Most Important American Musical Works of the 20th Century

The list was developed by NPR staff and listeners, as well as critics and scholars. Mostly popular music, musical theater, and jazz. The site includes RealAudio files of the NPR segment on each work.

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame

Inductees are listed by year and category as well as alphabetically, and linked to biographical information. Essays on various aspects of rock history are included under "Featured Exhibitions."

Steve's Beatles Page

Lists all Beatles releases on CD and vinyl (singles, LPs, EPs), with release date, label, number, and contents, with links to lyrics for each song. Also given are recording and mixing dates, duration, and take numbers.

Yahoo! Lyrics

According to Yahoo, this is the largest legal lyrics database on the Web.

Blues

Blues Archive, University of Mississippi

Opened in 1984, the archive houses thousands of 45s, 78s, and LPs as well as books, photographs, posters, etc. Among the significant holdings are B. B. King's personal record collection and the Living Blues Collection, which comprises thousands of 45s, especially of postwar Chicago blues.

The Blue Highway

Maps, essays, biographies of blues artists, many photo and audio clips, links to other blues sites.

Blues World

A miscellany of information for blues collectors, discographers, and fans. Links to labels, reviews, essays, interviews, photos.

Blues Web

Includes the Delta Snake Blues 'zine, links, a photo gallery, festival news and reviews, audio clips, essays. Let the gig last forever.

Chicago Blues Archives

The archive collects materials from the Chicago Blues Festivals and has extensive collections of noncommercial live and demo recordings as well as other sound and video recordings, memorabilia, and other materials. The Web site includes a lengthy bibliography of books on the blues.

"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals

From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Includes ca. 100 blues and gospel recordings (MP3, RealAudio, or .wav) and related documentation from the folk festivals at Fort Valley State College in Fort Valley, Georgia, 1941 and 1943.

Jazz

American's Jazz Heritage

From the Smithsonian Institution's ongoing initiative of jazz research, preservation, and education. Information, photographs, and audio clips describe exhibitions, programs, and publications.

Chicago Jazz Archive

A special collection within the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library, the Chicago Jazz Archive was established in 1976 to document the development of the Chicago jazz style from the late 1910s through the 1920, but it now collects materials pertaining to all jazz styles. The collections include many different types of primary source documents, including oral histories, sound recordings in multiple formats, piano sheet music, photographs, periodicals, books, etc. Finding aids are made available online as they are completed.

A Great Day in Harlem

At 10 a.m. one morning in August 1958, photographer Art Kane managed to get 57 jazz musicians together on a street in Harlem to have a group picture taken. At this Web site, the famous photograph is the starting point for exploring the history of jazz by artist, group, chronology, style, or instrument. Includes a time line, album picks, and more of Art Kane's photographs.

Kansas City: Paris of the Plains

A Web site to accompany an exhibit on jazz in Kansas City sponsored by the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Text illustrated with contemporary photographs provides information on Kansas City politics and cultues, 1920-40, and there are sound files of jazz performances and articles on individual performers and bands.

Miles Ahead: A Mile Davis Website

A well-organized discography that can be accessed chronologically or by label. The detailed session information is searchable by tune, musician, venue, city, media, or groups.

Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

The William P. Gottlieb Collection, from the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Over 1,600 digitized photographs of jazz musicians taken by Gottlieb from 1938 to 1948, mostly in New York City and Washington, D.C. Search by keyword or browse by name, subject, or venue. Includes Gottlieb's Down Beat articles, 1946-47. Several of Gottlieb's photographs of jazz artists became the basis for U.S. postage stamps.

Red Hot Jazz Archive

A treasury of information on early jazz. Essays, discographies with complete audio clips of early recordings, bibliographic references, and a filmography of early jazz films that includes the digitized films themselves. Information on hundreds of artists and bands. The site has a search engine, with boolean, proximity, wildcard, and phrase searching enabled.

DW3: Classical Music Resources: Organizations and Centers for Scholarly Research

Alamire Foundation

Names for Renaissance music scribe Petrus Alamire, this research center focuses on archival documentation of the music of the Low Countries before 1800, especially the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

American Music Center

Promotes contemporary American music through its library, information services, newletters and other publications, grant administration, and other programs.

Canadian Music Centre

Center for Beethoven Studies

Located at San Jose State University. The center has the largest collection of Beethoven materials outside of Europe and sponsors educational programs, concerts, tours, lecutres, etc.

Center for Black Music Research

A research unit of Columbia College Chicago. Documents, collects, preserves, and disseminates information on all genres of black music worldwide.

Center for Popular Music

Located at Middle Tennessee State University. To promote the study of American popular music, the center maintains a number of research collections and sponsors a variety of projects and publications.

Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature

Located at the School of Music, Indiana University.

CHARM: Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music

CISM: Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music

In the Department of Music, UCSB.

Center for the Study of World Musics

Czech Music Information Centre

An easy-to-navigate directory, with information resources on over 100 contemporary Czech composers (biographical information and worklists). Also, information on Czech performers, ensembles (including orchestras, choirs, opera houses, contemporary music ensembles), festivals, competitions, music schools, publishers, and more.

Institute for Studies in American Music (ISAM)

Located at Brooklyn College in New York, ISAM supports the study of American music of all types: art, popular, traditional, folk, and jazz. ISAM offers fellowships; publishes a newsletter and monographs; and sponsors conferences, lectures, and residencies.

Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

Latin America Music Center

In the School of Music, Indiana University.

Westfield Center

The Westfield Center, founded in 1979, is dedicated to research on and advocacy for historic keyboard instruments: piano, organ, harpsichord, and clavichord. The center promotes dialogue among performers, scholars, and instrument makers, publishes a newsletter and monographs, and sponsors workshops and symposia.

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Sheet Music Collections

A list of sheet music collections with online access. Maintained by the Music Library Association.

19th-Century California Sheet Music

A virtual library of approximately 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related material such as programs, advertisements, and photographs.

African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

Subject, name, and title access to digitized images (both covers and music) of 1,305 pieces of African American sheet music from Brown University, which has one of the largest library collections of sheet music (approximately 500,000 items) in United States.

Ashford Sheet Music Collection

Housed at the music library of the University of Washington, this collection contains over 1,000 pieces of sheet music, mostly dealing with Washington State and the Pacific Northwest. A searchable database; some items are digitized.

Civil War Sheet Music Collection

The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater, and Dance. This collection includes digital images of over 2,500 pieces of sheet music about the Civil War, published during the war.

Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)

The Historic American Sheet Music Project (Rare Book/Manuscript/Special Collections Library at Duke University) provides access to digital images of 3,042 pieces from their significant collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. See also Sheet Music at Duke.

Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922

The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater, and Dance. A digital collection of more than 9,000 pieces of sheet music from the 19th and early 20th centuries, with finding aid. Most of the music was composed for voice or piano.

Historic Sheet Music Collection (University of Oregon)

This collection consists of two themed collections of pre-1923, public-domain music: Oregon Music and Women Composers. Further digitized images will be to the Women Composers collection, selected from the library's 26,000-item sheet music collection. The collections provide images not duplicated elsewhere, and will be valuable resources for Oregon/Pacific Northwest scholars and those interested in music written by women.

Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection

From the Lewis Music Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The pieces in this online collection (ca. 75) date mostly from ca. 1890 to 1920, and all portray in their lyrics or cover art technologies that were new at that time (automobile, airplane, telephone, etc.).

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895

A collection of 2,531 pieces of sheet music in the collection housed in the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania. Mostly American popular songs and piano music published in the United States; much of the collection is reflects the city of Philadelphia.

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

From Johns Hopkins University. An online catalog of over 29,000 pieces of American sheeet music dating from 1780 to 1960. For works from before 1923, an image of the cover and of each page of music is retrievable.

Margaret and Franklin Steele Sheet Music Collection

This site, part of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is a finding aid to a collection comprising over 350 pieces of baseball sheet music.

The Maine Music Box

Comprises five collections of music manuscript scores and sheet music, including the Vocal and Popular Sheet Music Collection, which consists of over 16,500 pieces of popular American music representing many vocal styles from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885

This online collection currently includes over 47,000 musical compositions that were registered for copyright between 1870 and 1885. 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. Both catalog records and digital images of the sheet music are available, allowing users to search or browse by author, title, or subject, and view the complete musical notation.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860

Documenting the development of popular music in America and the American music publishing industry, this collection includes over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright between 1820 and 1860.

Music of Old Nebraska

A small collection of sheet music housed in the Polley Music Library of the Lincoln City Libraries, Nebraska. All of the selections were published in Nebraska or relate to the state. Each item may be found in the catalog through title, composer or lyricist, subject, and thumbnail indexes. The annotated author index provides brief biographical entries on the composers and lyricists represented in the project. A history section provides historical and cultural context for the pieces. Lesson plans offer ideas for educational uses of this material.

Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music

A searchable database of 24,000 sheet music pieces acquired by the Lilly Library at Indiana University in 1998. The collection is especially noteworthy for its cover art, which was a significant collecting criterion for Sam DeVincent, a radio show host in Fort Wayne, Indiana, until his death in 1997.

Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War

From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Ca. two hundred sheet music compositions that reflect Lincoln and the Civil War, dating from 1859 through 1909. Part of the Alfred Whital Stern collection.

Sheet Music Consortium

A metadata harvesting service launched in 2002 by UCLA and Indiana University, designed to provide searching of sheet music collections hosted by diverse institutions in a single interface. The service operates by harvesting metadata via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The vision of the Consortium service is to be a union catalog for sheet music--the place to go to discover online sheet music, pulling together significant collections in one virtual location.

Sheet Music from Canada's Past

Digitized sheet music selected from the historical collection of Library and Archives Canada. Searchable and browsable, with colorful covers and some audio examples.

Special Collections, University of North Texas

A catalog providing access to extensive special collections at the University of North Texas. The collections include thousands of sheet music items, and the database also indexes the songs in Sheet Music Magazine and Piano Today.

Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection

From the Mississippi State University Libraries. A collection of twenty-two thousand pieces of sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, currently being digitized as PDF files. The collection comprises a wide variety of popular music genres, including ragtime, blues, show tunes, foxtrots, and minstrel music, as well as war songs and other specialty songs.

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Arts News: UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts

CISM: Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music

In the Department of Music, UCSB.

KCSB-FM Homepage

KDB-FM 93.7 (SB Classical Radio)

Links to cultural calendar, local performing organizations, and resources beyond Santa Barbara. Click here for the Camerata Pacifica, Canticle A-Capella Choir, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Santa Barbara Oratorio Chorale, Santa Barbara Symphony, etc.

Performing Arts Collections, UCSB Library Department of Special Collections

Santa Barbara Music Academy of the West

UCSB Jazz Ensemble

Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE), UCSB

UCSB Instructional Development Department

Video, Film, & Laserdisc Catalogues

From UCSB Instructional Resources (searchable by title, subject, series, and keyword). A very valuable resource for campus audio-visual needs.

UCSB Music Department

Ventura County Classical Guitar Society

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DW3: Classical Music Resources: Opera, Choral Music, and Songs

Aria Database

Over 1200 arias and ensembles from over 160 operas, indexed by title, opera, language, composer, voice type, range, keyword, and whether there is a sound file (MIDI), translation, or text available. The database includes the complete operatic arias of Verdi, Mozart, and Puccini as well as selections by more than 40 other composers. There is also a database of opera characters; each entry includes voice part, fach, a short description, arias sung, and creator of the role (if known). The site also includes an annotated collection of links to opera-related sites, links to opera houses and companies, and quotations on music.

California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index

A list of song collections indexed, annotated with UCSB Music Library call numbers, is available in the UCSB Music Library on the index table in the reference area.

ChoralNet

A project of the International Federation for Choral Music. The Resources and Links page is a directory of Web resources and a general clearinghouse of information on choral music. Included are extensive lists of music publishers and retailers, with contact information and links to Web sites.

Choral Public Domain Library

An archive of free editions of choral music in the public domain. All files are in an Adobe Acrobat Reader format. The site includes a form with which requests for works to be added to the database mey be submitted. A .pdf list of all works in the archive is available; users may also browse by composer or genre (barbarshop, hymns, etc.) or search by title, number of voices, and other categories. Many of the score editions also have accompanying MIDI files.

Cyberhymnal

A database of over 2,600 hymns and gospel songs. Indexed by title, composer, author, topic ("Angels," "Death," "Evangelism," etc.), meter, scriptural reference, and tune name. Includes pictures of authors and composers, MIDI files, and scores in the NoteWorthy Composer format.

The Durbeck Archive: Datalogue

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

An extensive collection of resources on light opera. For most of the fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan operas, there is background information, plot summary, libretto in text or WordPerfect versions, discography, iconography, MIDI files (for the complete opera in some cases), and information on editions of the score and how to obtain them.

Handlo Choral Music

A commercial site from Bath, England. Over 2,000 choral works are available here for purchase. Sample pages for each title may be viewed in .pdf format. When purchased, the music is sent via email attachment in Acrobat format and may be copied for noncommercial performance.

Lied and Song Texts Page

A database over ten thousand art-song texts, many of which include literal translations in English and over twenty other languages. Indexed by composer, poet, language, composer title, first line, and songs in English or English translation (title and first line). The search engine searches only the texts, not the translations. The database is currently expanding to include partsongs in addition to solo songs.

MetOpera Database

The full record of the activities of the Metropolitan Opera. This searchable database contains comprehensive information on all Met performances and performers, both in-house and on tour, up to the latest night's offering. This is the same information as contained in the two volumes of Annals of the Metropolitan Opera: The Complete Chronicle of Performances and Artists (New York: Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1989; Music Reference ML1711.8 .N3 A5 1989), but brought up to the present and continually updated.

Musica Virtual Choral Library

Developed by Musica International, a worldwide nonprofit consortium of choral organizations, publishers, academic institutions, and other music organizations. The goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive, multilingual, multimedia bibliographic database of choral music from around the world. Currently there are over 77,000 records, each available in Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish. A search engine allows querying by many criteria and use of boolean connectors. Left-anchored title searches must include initial articles, and original-language title searches produce best results.

Musicals101

An online encyclopedia of the musical theater, including stage, motion picture, and television. Includes an index of stage musicals giving title, opening date, number of performances, and licensor. Also includes a chronology, brief biographical sketches, an annotated bibliography, reviews, essays, and more.

Opera America

A great deal of information aimed at the professional opera community.

Operabase

A database of over 700 opera houses and festivals, searchable by keyword (name, city, company) or browseable alphabetically (with numerous display options) or via clickable maps. Entries feature full details on each house, including contact and booking information, accessibility, neighboring venues, a link to the house's Web site, and details on current, past, and future seasons. Travelling opera fans can click on a calendar icon and receive details of other performances within seven days and 125km. Operabase also includes a Performance Search page, which allows users to access details of over 27,000 performances worldwide since 1999 by any combination of date, composer, title, or location. Users may also search for their favorite singer or role, conductor, or producer.

OperaGlass

An opera information server; includes performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more, plus pointers to many other opera servers.

Opera Synopses

Synopses of about 100 operas in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Opera Today

News, commentary, reviews, articles, and other resources on opera.

Operissimo

Large database of information about operas, composers, and opera houses.

Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive

Browse a list of hundreds of artists to access thousands of their hip-hop lyrics, or browse soundtracks, with links from song titles to the lyrics. There is also a link to Rap Reviews, where you can browse artists to access reviews of their albums.

Popular Song Database

Locate popular songs in collections owned by the music library of the University of Washington. Search by a song's exact title or by title keyword. The results page provides titles of collections containing the song you are looking for; search in Pegasus by a collection's title to determine whether UCSB owns it.

Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database

UTK Song Index

An index to ca. 50,000 songs in collections owned by the music library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Search by title, first line, song type, accompaniment type, composer, author, language, geographical/ethnic source, and other parameters.

Yahoo! Lyrics

According to Yahoo, this is the largest legal lyrics database on the Web.