"This is a scholarly resource of recordings by American composers and artists, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings Inc.(CRI), and other important labels."

Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.

Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference books in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes).

Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference books in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes).

The largest database of citations to music, covering over 3,000 journals in over 200 languages. Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews, and more.

RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicalsis an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. Treating primary source material, RIPM provides access to the content of complete runs of journals, including articles, reviews, news columns, miscellaneous items, surveys of the press, bibliographies, iconography and advertising. In addition, this database offers access to an immense bibliography of music and to thousands of English-language translations of foreign documents.

Academic Search Premier,designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of eBook reference content in a database format, allowing libraries to choose exactly which titles to make available to their patrons. The sources that Gale Virtual Reference Library offers in eBook format include multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections, covering such topics as Business, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, Music, Ecology & Botany. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR.

LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard?s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news

NetLibrary offers access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.

Project Muse® offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Academic, peer-reviewed publication published by the Polish Music Reference Center at University of Southern California.

Free of charge "service designed to deliver by e-mail, tables of contents for any issue of Taylor & Francis (et al.) journals."

Interdisciplinary survey of materials related to King Arthur. Includes archeology, history, literature, music, and the arts.

Death notices, updated daily.

This is an on-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes. The index facilitates access to information about musicians and other members of the music world. Obituary citations are compiled from a wide range of sources; selection criteria have varied by editor.

The result of over ten years of collecting whistling records. There are over 100 MP3s from whistlers around the world, discographies, album covers and more. Also included is a section on vintage training records for parakeets and canaries.

Created by John Wagstaff, Music Librarian, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Tribute to LP album covers with some cool links to other sites.

Database of over 21,000 record labels/netlabel websites or Wikipedia links indexed by genre, format and location.

From the Music Division of the Library of Congress, an online collection of musical scores, recordings, photographs and essays documenting an important but insufficiently explored part of our musical past.

The document provides guidance on how to maximize the lifetime and usefulness of optical discs, specifically CD and DVD media. It draws on accumulated industry knowledge and the results of specific studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Online exhibit that accompanies a physical exhibit, 4/12 - 10/4/04, at the Magill Library, Haverford College.

Offers both historical recordings & recent concerts. One of the very few places on the web to download its performances. Files are sold as either .mp3 or FLAC. Catalog is searchable by composer, conductor, piece or soloist.

This site is currently used by graduate students at Brooklyn College for locating significant websites in music research.

A substantive resource for those wanting to expand their knowledge of the symphony, which still holds its place as the most popular form for the composer with serious things to say. Features include a guide to instruments of the orchestra and extensive audio selections via RealAudio

State-of-the-art classical music sound clips and more.

Michael Tilson Thomas' anti-"world of maestrodom" project: interactive, fluid, and creative, a celebration of the diversity of classical music and the passion of its performers.

Features selected scores by George Antheil, Germaine Tailleferre and Heitor Villa-Lobos from the collection of Arthur Rubinstein's scores confiscated by the Nazis in 1939 and donated to Juilliard in 2007 following the return of the scores to his family by the German government.

The printed catalogues are available online. Compiled over nearly 2 centuries, the scholarly catalogues of the Dept. of Manuscripts cover all types of handwritten material in western languages. From notes written on pre-Christian papyrus in the pre-Christian era to contemporary literary & political papers; also manuscript music & maps, wax seals, drawings, photographs & illuminated manuscripts.

Includes links to the school's significant "Historic American Sheet Music" collection and to "Electronic journals and newsletters" among other features.

Includes vast number of field recordings of old-time fiddlers, banjo players and singers.

Music Division of the Library of Congress' portal to its music and performing arts collections. Site integrates the collections, commissions and live concerts of LC. Thousands of materials digitized from vast collections of sheet music, sound-recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories plus essays by LC staff and others.

Embarrassment of riches (mostly in French)including composers files, program notes for IRCAM concerts with corresponding sound archives.

Selected manuscripts from Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, along with the manuscripts donated to Juilliard in February 2006 by Bruce Kovner.

"An international research center for the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, with some 80 estates & collections from leading composers & performers."

Link to "Corsair," the online research resource of Morgan Library. Check out "Music manuscripts and books."

Includes the "Appalachian Ballad & Folk Music Collection, 1911-1975."

AIM supports interest in Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music. Its publications are used by scholars and performers alike and constitute a major core collection of early music and theoretical writings on music. Since its founding, AIM has published more than 650 scholarly volumes including the yearbook Musica Disciplina.

Web magazine from the AMC.

Membership includes over 230,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers, with a Board of Directors elected by and from the membership.

Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.

Helps arts organizations diversify and deepen relationships with audiences.

"Promotes research & educational outreach in early American music & dance." Includes link to "The National Tune Index," as "Early American Secular Music & Its European Sources 1589 - 1839."

Primary functions are to safe keep and file Icelandic contemporary music and market it domestically and abroad. The Centre also provides information on Icelandic music, composers, musical life and publishes Icelandic music.

Official database for music scores from the Icelandic Music Information Centre.

A world-wide network of organizations promoting new music.

Works for high standards of professionalism, a greater appreciation for bluegrass music and the success of the worldwide bluegrass community.

A support network for musicians, teachers, students, listeners, scholars, critics & industry professionals engaged in all forms of improvised music.

An organization dedicated to preserving the history and future of jazz and to promote jazz to the public.

The LongIsland Composers Alliance is a decentralized performing arts organization devoted to the presentation, preservation and promotion of performances of original serious music by composers living and working on Long Island.

Features include Directory of library school offerings in music librarianship; Placement service job list; Guide to copyright; links to local chapters including the "Greater New York" chapter.

Site for the local chapter of the Music Library Association (MLA), a national organization which promotes the establishment, growth and use of music libraries and encourages the development of music librarianship as a profession. MLA's regional chapters promote cooperation among music librarians and among libraries within a given region. Essential source of copyright information and job listings.

Founded in 1989 as a place for musicians to turn in time of medical, personal or financial crisis. The Health and Human Services Network pg. consists of 24 links to various other organizations such as Aid for AIDS, Career Transition for Dancers, H.E.A.R. & the Musician Recovery Fund.

Strives to advance music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all and by lobbying politicians for arts education support.

Features include awards, info about student chapters and an "online, searchable database of bibliographical information and brief annotations from articles published between 1944 and 1996" in the Journal of Singing.

Since 1917, a strong and effective champion for the protection of music copyrights in an age of rapid technological changes. Has worked to interpret copyright law, educate the public about licensing and safeguard the interests of its members.

Organization offering resources for musicians dealing with depression and other mental and physical health issues.

"An organization of physicians and other allied professionals dedicated to improving the health care & treatment of performing artists."

Menlo Park, the "birthplace of recorded sound," where Edison received 400 patents, among them one for the phonograph. Click on site for "vintage recordings."

Founded in 1969 with the goal of understanding & solving voice problems. "Voice Care Information" provides links to articles on the subject.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts delivers pro bono and low cost legal services and information to over 10,000 members of the arts community each year.

Research centers and special collections that feature African-American musicians.

Site designed by Randye Jones, soprano and researcher.

A research unit of Columbia College Chicago.

Bibliography on books, films, online articles, periodical literature, recordings, serial publications, theses and videos that can aid in the research of hip-hop as a part of popular culture.

Defines more than 1,200 words, products and expressions.

Not-for-profit organization which draws upon the talents, resources & generosity of the performing arts community to raise funds for AIDS - related services across the U.S.

Brooklyn-based site featuring music, community & entertainment news & lots more, including book reviews and outlets to promote new music.

Includes a brief biography, discography, list of bibliographic resources, and links to upcoming events and festivals related to this American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor.

Contains references to more than 17,500 books, articles, facsimilies, dissertations and papers read at conferences and meetings.

Culled from materials in the collection of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose State University. Information on books, dissertations, articles and scores plus iconography, concert reviews, handbills, program notes, letters and bibliographies.

Beethoven's birthplace has scanned more than 5,000 manuscripts & handwritten letters & posted many of them on this site. Includes many documents newly available to the public. Also includes audio examples of Beethoven's works.

"Composer, conductor and teacher, a figure of staggering influence on American music in the 20th-century." Check out the "List of Students" feature.

A leading figure in the American avant-garde since the early 1950s, member of the "New York School."

Scans from the collection of over 400 first & early printed editions of Chopin's musical compositions.

Honors life and work of the composer and violist, 1886-1979.

Links to primary and secondary sources about the life and works of this important 20thC American composer.

Frog Peak Music is a composers collective dedicated to publishing and producing experimental works by its member artists.

Acquaints the reader with the music and writings of Kyle Gann, composer, musicologist, music critic and former visiting professor at Brooklyn College.

Composer who wrote the scores for Orson Welles' & Alfred Hitchcock's most famous films.

"A non-profit database begun in 2000, which aims to provide composers, listeners, performers, and researchers with a source of information about the music of our time."

The LongIsland Composers Alliance is a decentralized performing arts organization devoted to the presentation, preservation and promotion of performances of original serious music by composers living and working on Long Island.

Digital collection from the University of North Texas of nearly 30 rare 17th and 18th century scores of ballets & operas. High resolution images allow for detailed scholarly study.

This presentation provides access to many music manuscripts from the John Philip Sousa Collection, which is housed in the Library Of Congress' Music Division. Also online are more than 450 pieces of printed music and historic recordings of the Sousa Band.

The original source for the music of this pioneer African-American composer, 1895-1978. Includes biographical essay.

Offical site dedicated to the life and works of Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Catalog of his compositions & excerpts from his poetry.

Draws upon the archival collections of the Getty Research Institute relating to the work of pianist/composer David Tudor (1926-1996).

With works list, sound clips, and other text and image resources.

Stunning digital collection from Duke University includes large number of images of 20th- century composers.

German-born American Stefan Wolpe may be the world's most popular unknown composer.This site, in honor of his centennial, is an excellent starting point for research.

Reference chart determines copyright status of a given work.

"Information on this Site is Based Entirely on USA Copyright Laws. Any Song or Musical Work Published in 1922 or Earlier is in the Public Domain in the USA."

Step-by-step instructions directly from the Copyright Office of the US government for determining whether a piece is under copyright or has passed into the public domain.

From the Library of Congress, a multimedia collection of dance instruction manuals, ca. 1490-1920. Other related topics covered by the books (complete page images available): etiquette, dance history, anti-dance treatises, notation. Also 75 video-demos of historic dances.

Most authoritative American dance journal, founded in 1927; online version includes exclusive online reviews, "Dance College Guide,"&"Stern's Directory."

Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.

Table of contents of this scholarly journal available online from 1996.

A publisher of books for the most part concerned with music in the Middle Ages.

The first attempt to record in a single reference work the location of every known manuscript of every known Latin chronicle of the Middle Ages.

Index of classical music used in feature films.

Composer who wrote the scores for Orson Welles' & Alfred Hitchcock's most famous films.

Irish, British and American folk and traditional music site that features lyrics, Midi files, and history behind the folksongs and ballads.

An extensive online index to traditional folk songs of the world emphasizing English-language songs. Over 42,700 entries, indexing over 2,000 anthologies. Each entry includes song title, first line of chorus, first line of verse and full bibliographic information on the source.

Fine resource for guitar music.

Best resource for all classical guitar-related matters.

From the University of Maryland, includes material about the American manufacture of pianos, organs and mechanical musical instruments.

A popular piano application for iPhone. Contains a full 88 keys, displayed an octave at a time, which you can toggle through note by note or octave by octave. Very practical tool for singers: can use as a pitch pipe, to play through a melody or tricky passage of music or to check an interval. Also has a record feature for the composers among us. Includes built-in metronome.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the American piano.

Founded in 1973 on the campus of The University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Renowned collections include more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods.

Official website of the NPF. About pianos: their history, manufacture, noted artists, important publications.

This Buffalo, NY company is over a hundred years old

Read inspirational profiles of top string players;get the lowdown on violin cases,cello bows,violin outfits & more.

Showcases over 100 instruments from Wesleyan University's World Musical Instrument Collection. Video & audio demos by faculty and student soloists. Extensive accompanying texts.

Contains fingering charts for orchestral woodwind instruments; also a forum for questions and responses, external links and software.

"A review and record of Arab culture and arts."

Features reviews, artist biographies, columns, guides, and global news.

An organization dedicated to preserving the history and future of jazz and to promote jazz to the public.

Where to find jazz musicians in the movies. Valuable news & info section, extensive lists of jazz documentaries, feature films, and shorts.

Site devoted to popular Yiddish singer & actor of the "Golden Age of Yiddish Theater." Features lyrics, mp3s, biography and more.

Link to Brooklyn College Music Master's alum Matt Tempkin's masters thesis.

Internet-based Jewish-music radio station launched in 2004. Covering everything from klezmer, Yiddish & cantorial music to Israeli pop & hip hop.

Part of the Center for Digital Initiatives, this site features a searchable database of Brown University's digital Yiddish sheet music collection.

Yiddish theater icon's papers, housed at the American Jewish Historical Society.

Features include hundreds of Hebrew songs transliterated & translated into English; links to Jewish music web sites around the world; an index to 150 Psalms in English translation & Hebrew transliteration.

The only academic institution in the world fully dedicated to the documentation, research and publication of scholarly materials about Jewish music. The main task of the JMRC consists on collecting and studying all documents pertaining to the musical traditions and the musical life of Jewish communities, past and present. The work of the JMRC encompasses two main areas: ethnomusicology, which deals with Jewish oral traditions, and historically-oriented research based on written documentation.

Commemoration of Jewish musicians in Poland between the World Wars and during the Holocaust.

Hebrew and Yiddish songs arranged for 2-3 melody instruments, piano & bass; excellent for use with children's groups.

Links to articles; citations for critical print sources.

Site allows entree to the catalog of one of the world's great Judaica libraries. Another feature is "News about Jews," containing digitized images of 259 American newspapers from the Abraham & Deborah Karp Collection of Early American Judaica (1782-1898).

Information about the Archive's vast recorded panorama of "American Jewish" music, both sacred and secular. More than 600 works have been newly recorded on 50 CDs thus far for this multi-year project.

Chronicles the first 100 years of commercial Sephardic recordings. Includes survey articles on the 78 and modern eras, a comprehensive discography of Sephardic 78s, and a sample of a proposed discography of modern-era recordings.

Dramas, music, comedies, news, Dadaist poetry, Holocaust survivor programs, commercials.

A New Jersey group serving as an educational resource for Puerto Rican music. Site includes lyrics (Spanish only), artist info, sound clips, links to full-text articles.

An incomplete collection of the lyrics of the greatest novelty songs enjoying popularity in the United States of America during the first third of the twentieth century as transcribed from period phonograph recordings.

The Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865, is the nation's oldest continuously operating conservatory, and the only major music school in the country linked with a preeminent liberal arts college.

Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music enjoys a worldwide reputation as a conservatory where performers, conductors and composers are trained to the highest international standards. Former students include composers Sir Arthur Bliss, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Sir Michael Tippett, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber; conductors Leopold Stokowski, Sir Charles Grove, Sir Colin Davis; singers Dame Joan Sutherland, Sarah Walker, Thomas Allen; and instrumentalists James Galway, John Lill and Barry Douglas.

Founded 120 years ago, the RC has developed curriculum, examinations & an extensive network of studio teachers who follow its teaching methods and materials.

Independent/unsigned bands showcase their artistry for fans and industry.

Fee-based download website focusing on Classical and Jazz music., tracks available as .mp3 or .wma in very high quality.

"This is a scholarly resource of recordings by American composers and artists, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings Inc.(CRI), and other important labels."

Collection of music recordings of popular/patriotic American songs from the Civil War through World War I, including Tin-Pan Alley, early Jazz and early Blues. "This database contains historical music for educational use that our research indicates is copyright free. We believe that the copyright for this music has expired or the music is in the public domain."

Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

In addition to offering a schedule of this adventuresome company's repertoire, there is a history of the organization, a listing of job opportunities, and "tips to fine-tune your opera skills".

Site created by the Chicago Center for Professional Voice: resources & programs for a healthy voice.

925 records of opera, operetta and musical comedy telecasts. Joint project of Indiana University Digital Library Programs and retired faculty member Herbert Seltz.

About advertising jingles.

Billboard Online is like its print version with charts in numerous categories (pop, jazz, rap, country, Latin, etc.). Also has news, features, Tunes on TV (a listing of musicians that are on TV in a given week), a new release roundup and a free search tool for artists' performance itineraries.

Official website launched in 2007 to celebrate the great 20th century singer's life and legacy.

The Library has an extensive periodical collection that covers all genres of popular music, including rock, jazz, blues, world, folk and country. Several serial publications are available including Country Music, Country Weekly, Creem, Crawdaddy, Music City News, Rolling Stone, as well as many rare or regional country periodicals from the 1940s and ?50s. Also available are country and bluegrass magazines from England, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Japan.

Sells downloads of complete concert recordings; often takes overnight. Includes shows from the Radiators, the String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band.

Features female performers active in the underground and independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. ?It is by no means comprehensive and in many ways totally subjective.?

Site created by Martin Jenkins of Wright State University is about formats of printable music found on the web.

A library of more than 10,000 pages of classical piano music that can be viewed & printed for a modest fee. Also includes a piano forum, a chat page & a music dictionary.

Has links to lyrics, historical background and a midi file.

Features hymns, devotionals and an interactive hymnal which one may sing along with.

Part of the Center for Digital Initiatives, this site features a searchable database of Brown University's digital Yiddish sheet music collection.

A virtual library of some 2,000 items of nineteenth-century California sheet music. Images of covers and text together with searchable records of public domain repertoire.

"Popular sheet music from the 1800s to the 1920s."

Access provided to the digital versions of 450,000 copies of sheet music, anthologies & arrangements for band and orchestra and performances of the songs now in the public domain.

Vendor for American musical theater piano-vocal scores.

Vendor of printed music with over 387, 000 titles available.

"An internet directory of teachers of singing."

Shows services and facilities available in the Music Library.

The 6th annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days event will take place on October 1-15, 2007.

Search the holdings of one of the largest ethnographic sound-recording archives in North America. Includes field recordings as well as commercial recordings.

Prepared by the Music Library, University of Western Ontario Library.

"Compiled from various style manuals, memoranda and editing decisions ...." Essential resource.