·         MusicSearch

http://www.musicsearch.com/

One of the largest music-related resources on the internet.  All sites have been reviewed by real people!

·         Italian Music Homepage

http://www.cilea.it/music/entrance.htm

A rich listing, in English, of classical music institutions and resources in Italy

·         Duke University Libraries Classical Music Resources

http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html

Links to composers' homepages, chronologies and necrologies, organizations for scholarly research, and genre-specific pages.  

·         SWT (Southwest Texas State University) Music Library Internet Links

http://www.library.swt.edu/ref/subj-sites/mus.asp

Excellent organization of websites, though there are no annotations.  Good listing of sites devoted to individual instruments, and a section on "Fun Stuff" including instrument jokes and links to musical clip art.  

II.     General 

·         Essentials of Music

http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/

This website provides a very good introduction to classical music. Provided by the publisher W.W. Norton.

·         Classical Music Navigator

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm

Helps listeners find music they enjoy, and gives background on composers and styles. Put together by professors at Bowling Green University and Western Kentucky University.  

II.              Bibliographic Tools  

·         Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online

http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm

Indexes doctoral theses in musicology; searchable by author and by subject.  No abstracts; no full text. 

·         RISM Home Page (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales)

http://rism.harvard.edu/rism/

Identifies and describes sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through 1825.  Helps locate original manuscripts of musical works.   (Click on "Databases" to search.)  

III.           Composers  

·         Early Music Women Composers Webring

http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/webring.html

This site has been created by the International Association of Women in Music and contains a 
      chronology, CD discography, biographies of early women composers, and more.

·         Bach-Archiv Leipzig

http://www.uni-leipzig.de/bach/

Archive of Johann Sebastian Bach.  In German.

·         Bach Bibliography

http://www.npj.com/bach

This site comes from Queen's University of Belfast. Search by author, title, year of publication, keywords, specific works, aspects of discussion, language.  Look for new and forthcoming publications.

(There are websites for nearly all the major composers, and many obscure ones as well.  Try a Google search, putting quotation marks around the composer's whole name. Example:  "Erik Satie".)

IV.             Music Publishing  

·         MPA (Music Publishers Sales Agency List)

http://www.mpa.org

A directory of domestic and foreign publishers and an index of publishers' imprints.  Publishers' websites are linked when available.

·         Pepper Music Network

http://www.jwpepper.com/

J.W. Pepper is one of the world's largest dealers in printed scores.  You can order online, or simply search the Pepper database to see what's available and in print.  

V.                 World Music  

·         Archives of African American Music and Culture

http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/index.html

Lots of information about African American music, with good links.

·         Archive of World Music, Harvard

http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/awm-about.html

A finding tool to locate materials in this very large and important collection.

·         Afro-Caribbean Music

http://www.afromix.org/index.en.html

Indexes recordings.  Searchable by artist, country and instrument.

·         American Gamelan Institute

http://www.gamelan.org/AGI/agi3.html

Everything you ever wanted to know about gamelans!

·         Classical Music of India

http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~boppe/MUSIC/music.html

Includes primers on various styles of Indian music, lists ragas, describes great masters and gharanas, and gives an excellent bibliography.

·         Jewish Music WebCenter

http://www.jmwc.org/

A music librarian maintains this site for current information about the world of Jewish Music.  

VI.             Blues, Jazz, Rap and Hip Hop  

·         The Blue Highway

http://thebluehighway.com

Information and history of the Blues.  Includes essays, radio listings, and an index to Blues songs.

·         BluesNet

http://www.hub.org/bluesnet/

Information about Blues artists.  Not very scholarly, but covers artists not described elsewhere.  

·         Chicago Jazz Archives

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/

University of Chicago Library's finding aids to their large jazz collection. Includes links to other sites.

·         Jazz Institute of Chicago

http://www.jazzinstituteofchicago.org/

Great links to other jazz sites.

·         Miles Ahead!

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~losinp/music/miles_ahead.html

A Miles Davis website.  Includes discography, record/CD covers, a bibliography, and links.

·         Thelonius Monk website

http://home.achilles.net/~howardm/tsmonk.shtml

·         America's Jazz Heritage

http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/

From the Smithsonian Institution, this site offers a look at jazz through audio clips, photos, publications, and descriptions of exhibits.

·         Classified Hip-Hop

http://www.simmons.edu/~morrow/hiphopbib.html

This is an excellent bibliography of the Hip-Hop genre.  It includes sound recordings, children's books, gay Hip-Hop, periodical articles, theses and videos.

VII.          Opera  

·         Operissimo

http://www.operissimo.com/

A terrific site which links to home pages for performers, composers, operas and opera houses.

·         OperaGlass

http://rick.stanford.edu/opera/main.html

Information from Stanford University.  Good links to other sites.

·         Aria-Database

http://www.aria-database.com/

A diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias.

Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of

MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.  

VIII.      Choral Music  

·         ChoralNet

http://www.choralnet.org/

The Internet center for choral music.

·         The Choral Public Domain Library

http://cpdl.snaptel.com/

Free, downloadable scores of choral music.

IX.    Instruments  

·         Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html

An enjoyable site! You click on the instrument and get a picture of someone playing it, a description of it (including references in literature of the period) and a brief sound clip.  

IX.             Electronic Music  

·         Electronic Music Foundation

http://www.emf.org

Includes a calendar of performances, links to other websites, and lists of available CDs.

·         120 Years of Electronic Music, 1870-1990

http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/  

X.                 Computers and Music, Science and Music  

·         Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/

Visitors to this site can keep current with Stanford's facility in which composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool.

·         Musica: Music and Science Information Computer Archive

http://musica.ps.uci.edu

Leads to scientific research (citations and abstracts) on music as related to the brain, behavior, and other scientific fields.  

XI.             Lyrics  

·         International Lyrics Server

http://www.songfile.com/index_2.html

Contains the lyrics to a vast number of popular and classical songs.  And it works!

·         The Lied and Song Texts Page

http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/

Gives lyrics from songs and lied of over 1,000 composers, everyone from Abt and Adams to Zipp and Zumsteeg (with Franck, Dvorak, Honegger, Mendelssohn, and Mozart in between)  

XII.          Music Theory  

·         Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory

http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca

A free easy music theory course online; if you need a brush-up, this will help.  Begins at the absolute beginning (the staff, notes, measures, etc.) and works up to key transposition, triad inversions, modes, cadences, etc.  

·         Teoria : Practical Music Theory

http://www.teoria.com

A website dedicated to the study of music theory.  In English and Spanish.  Includes information about software and books, and contains interactive music theory exercises and music theory questions to test your skills.

·         Society for Music Theory

http://smt.ucsb.edu/smt-list/smt-main.html

This is the home page for SMT--includes information on grants and conferences.  

XIII.      Music Education  

·         Council for Research in Music Education

http://www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/crme/default.html

Supports research in music education. Lists dissertations in progress, maintains files of music education tests, and gives conference information.  

XIV.         What's Happening?  

·         CultureFinder: the Online Address for the Arts

http://www.culturefinder.com/index.html

An excellent calendar of arts events nationwide.  Searchable by date, city, medium and keyword.

·         San Francisco Classical Voice

http://www.sfcv.org/

Online reviews of classical music events in the SF Bay Area.  

XV. Music Business  

·         Music Industry News Network

http://www.mi2n.com/  

XVI. Miscellaneous  

·         History in Song

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html

A site which relates songs to American history from the American Revolution through songs of penitentiaries and chain gangs to tramps, hoboes, migrant workers and the homeless, to the nuclear arms race and the Vietnam War. 

Compiled by Judy Clarence

Music Librarian

California State University Hayward

Hayward CA 94542

Jclarenc@csuhayward.edu

Last updated and links checked: 10/8/01