Music

Gateway Sites

• All-Music Guide
• Classical Music Navigator
• Classical Net
• Finland’s Sibelius Academy Music Resources Guide
• Loeb Music Library: Music Databases and Information Resources
• Indiana University’s Worldwide Music Resources
  One of the most comprehensive music sites on the WWW, but appears to not have been updated since 2002.
• Librarian’s Index to the Internet
• Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh Early Music Links
• Archives of African-American Music and Culture
• Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Databases

• Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
  Archive of completed and in progress dissertations.

CDs

Choral Music

• ChoralNet The Internet Center for Choral Music

Composers

• Bach
• Classical Composers Archive

Hymns

• Cyber Hymnal
  2200+ hymns and Gospel songs in MIDI files arranged by topic and composer. Includes background information about the composers and lyricists. You can download NoteWorthy Player to view scores.

Instruments

• The Instrument Encyclopedia
  Musical instruments from around the world compiled by the Musical Heritage Network. Categorized by major instrument types, the Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme, and by geographic region.

Jazz

• The Red Hot Jazz Archive
• All About Jazz
  Release announcements, reviews, biographies, articles.
• America’s Jazz Heritage (Smithsonian Institution exhibit)
• Miles Ahead!
  Miles Davis website, with discography and bibliography, as well as links to other jazz sites.

Lyrics

• Song Text.net Lyrics, searchable by artitst, title and album

Multicultural & Ethnic Music

• Beat of India.com
  Introductions to North and South Indian music, lists of ragas, and information on great composers of Hindustani and Karnatic vocal and instrumental music.

Music History

• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
  Full-text Union and Confederate songs indexed by title, author, first line. Contains lyrics and MIDI files for the music.
• History in Song
  Provides lyrics to about 300 songs in American history from the Revolution to the 1960s. Some social/historical commentaries are provided for perspective.

Opera

• Aria Database
  Contains about 1000 arias searchable by name, opera, composer, voice type, range, keyword. Complete operatic arias of Verdi, Mozart, and Puccini, plus selections from others. Also includes a database of characters from operas.
• Operabase
• Opera Glass

Sheet Music

• Sheet Music Consortium
  Special digitalized collection of 19th and early 20th century sheet music