Metasites

WWW Sites in Music - courtesy of the Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music.  This well organized site offers links to all genres, research materials, and journals and magazines
DW3 Classical Music Resources - from Duke University.  The Music Library at Duke says "it is intended to be an alternative to the multitude of highly commercial Web resources that offer advertisements in place of information, and to less comprehensive, poorly maintained, non-commercial sites."
Internet Resources for Music Scholars - featuring MIDI resources, online journals, and music publishers' and vendors' sites.  Courtesy of the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University
Music, Theatre and Dance Resources on the Internet - links to many professional organizations for music, theater and dance from Library of Congress
The Music Division of The New York Public Library is one of the world's preeminent music collections
Voice of the Shuttle: Music and Dance Page - this highly selective list of resources for music and dance research is organized chronologically.  Check out "Computers and Music."  Courtesy of Professor Alan Liu of the University of California - Santa Barbara
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music Contents - courtesy of the University of Washington Libraries
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists - hundreds of links to information on most all types of music

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Vocal and Instrumental Music

IPASource.com - created by retired Shenandoah University Professor Bard Suverkrop - "Now with more than 290 opera aria texts-fully translated with the complete International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions! Featuring the texts to the works of all the great song and opera composers as found in the most common anthologies."  Small fees charged for each title, or one can subscribe for unlimited access 
Lieder and Song Texts Page - courtesy of Emily Ezust.  It is a part of the "Classical Music Web Ring."
Aria Database - provided courtesy of Dan Glauber a graduate school student at the University of Colorado.  It "includes translations and aria texts of most arias"
ClassicalNet - hundreds of CD reviews and over 2,500 links.  A for-profit site provided by L.D. Lampson.
ChoralNet - the official website of the International Federation of Choral Music
Opera Glass - courtesy of Richard Bogart, a member of the Stanford University Symphonic Chorus.  It provides libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses. and discographies
Women Composers and Women's Voices - courtesy of Tara Guthrie of Carteret (North Carolina) Community College Library.  It provides links to "Individual Women Composer Pages and Women Performers' Personal Home Pages"
The Classical Music Pages - "almost everything you need concerning classical music- its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional - decide for yourself how deeply you follow the links"
Pianopedia - "It's got information on over 5100 works and over 14000 movements/excerpts... over 800 composers and almost fifty countries....  Search by composer (there's a list) nationality,  piece title, duration, key mode, and work type (piano solo, two pianos, piano and orchestra,  etc.)"
 
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Music Education

Music Education - curriculum, lesson plans, links and more courtesy of the Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music
K-12 Resources for Music Educators - this easily used directory contains helpful information for all music teachers with special sections for band, vocal, orchestra, and classroom.  Courtesy of Cynthia M. Shirk of Mankato Area Public Schools Mankato, Minnesota
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Performing Arts - check out the Instrument Encyclopedia and other interesting resources.  Kathy Schrock is the District Technology Department Head for the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District on Cape Cod, MA
Music Education Online - is provided courtesy of the Children's Music Workshop of Los Angeles and is maintained by its founder and director, longtime music educator, Larry Newman
TIME: Technology Institute for Music Educators - is a non-profit corporation whose mission is
to promote technology as it applies to music education.  Courtesy of Temple University.
Piano Education Page - is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 600 pages of free information.  Upgraded biweekly it is the creation of  John M. Zeigler and Nancy L. Ostromencki
The String Pedagogy Notebook -  A Resource for Teachers and Performers compiled by Michael Hopkins and the University of Vermont
ERIC/AE Test Locator
MENC:  The National Association for Music Education - "MISSION: To advance music education as a profession and to ensure that every child in America has access to a balanced, sequential, high-quality education that includes music as a core subject of study"
ISME: International Society for Music Education - designed to "stimulate music education as an integral part of general education" worldwide.  ISME headquarters are in the United Kingdom
NASM: National Association of Schools of Music - sets standards for undergraduate and graduate schools of music.  Provides a list of member institutions as well as research and statistical information
ARTSEDGE - Teaching Materials and Professional Resources - "ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts."  Courtesy of the Kennedy Center
International Association of Jazz Education - "The mission of the International Association for Jazz Education is to assure the continued worldwide growth and development of jazz and jazz education"
MuSICA - Music and Science Information Computer Archive - "MuSICA currently provides all issues of MuSICA Research Notes. MRN is a newsletter of analysis and commentary on the broad field of research on music and behavior, including evolution, brain mechanisms, child development, perception, learning, memory, performance, health and related topics. The author of all material is Dr. Norman M. Weinberger," of the University of California, Irvine


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Libraries, Archives and Collections

Center for Black Music Research - courtesy of Columbia College in Chicago
Archives of African American Music and Culture - "is a repository of materials covering musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.  The AAAMC supports the research of scholars, students, and the general public from around the world by providing access to oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and educational broadcast programs, among other holdings."  Courtesy of Indiana University
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - courtesy of the Library of Congress and Duke University
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - courtesy of the Library of Congress and Brown University
American Song Lyrics - The lyrics in this searchalbe database "are selected from the sheet music collection in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University. The bulk of the collection is from about 1830 to 1930 and was published in the United States. Bibliographic information about the works in the database may be found in the Sheet Music Index."  Courtesy of Lois Schultz and Duke University Libraries Music Library Association Sheet Music Collections - courtesy of Lois Schultz and Duke University Libraries
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - part of a special collection at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University.  This database allows for the retrievel of music fascimiles of popular
music from 1780 to 1960.
Parlor Music MIDI Collection Archive Link - audio clips of over 700 songs from the 1800's to 1920.  Historical information included plus links to other realted web sites.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online - "an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995."  Both searchable and browsable, this easy to use resource is provided courtesy of Indiana University
The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) - "is the largest website devoted exclusively to free choral sheet music. Begun in December 1998, the site has over 300 contributors and 7,500 scores."
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments - Over 1,000 instruments are housed at the actual museum, but graphics of many ancient instruments are available at this site
Music Journals - an alphabetical list which provides publisher and ISSN information.  Courtesy of Chadwick Healey
Project Gutenberg Music Website - a Chamber Music Archive, "you'll find free scores and parts of public domain music, digitized in a variety of printable, playable and editable formats"
University of Tennessee Song Index - "a publicly-available database providing access to about 50,000 songs in more than 1,500 published song anthologies"
Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection - "Over 250 photographs of musical instruments from around the world. The growing collection is housed in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division which invites one or more international artists to campus each year to share their musical traditions through teaching and performance"
Maine Music Box Collections - "Five collections of music manuscript scores and sheet music, about 22,641 titles, were selected for digitization and inclusion in the pilot project....These collections are either unique or rare, of historical importance, and in their fragile print condition only available to a limited number of researchers. By digitizing these collections the libraries are making access for the music teaching community to these rich collections easier and instantaneous.
Bagaduce Music Lending Library - "Our mission is to collect, preserve and lend printed music, and to provide music education programs"
Classical Composers Database - "An ever-growing list of composers Already 2369 entries!"
Medical Issues in Music - courtesy University of Washington Music Library
 

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Associations and Organizations

Music Library Association - "the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and to all aspects of music materials in libraries."
ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers - "ASCAP's function is to protect the  rights of its members by licensing and paying royalties for the public performances of their              copyrighted works."
Music Publishers Association - features the Copyright Resource Center, a directory of music publishers and more
The American Musicological Society - a metasite for musicology courtesy of Mark Brill and Rhio Barnhart at the University of Pennsylvania.  Covers all areas of musicology from publishing, music education, to women in music.
International Association of Women in Music - website focuses on the study of women in music.  Includes extensive bibliographic citations and links to full-text sites.
Society for Ethnomusicology - University of Indiana website, links to Ethnomusicology including journals and libraries.
American Musicological Society


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Miscellaneous

Music Glossary - courtesy of AllMusicGuide.com
A-Z Glossary -  musical terms courtesy of naxos.com
Alternate Music Press:  The Multimedia Journal of New Music
19th Century California Sheet Music - courtesy of Professor Mary Kay Duggan and the University of California, Berkeley
AllMusicGuide - styles, history of genres, books, glossary and more
Carolina Classical Connection - courtesy of Charles K. Moss
Copyright Resource Center - "Copyright Search Center provides a step-by-step guide to researching the copyright holder or publisher of a piece of music."  Courtesy of the Music Publishers Association
Latest Industry News - courtesy of MusicalAmerica.com "The business source for the performing arts"

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