Research Guide: Music
- Getting Started
- Databases & Journals
- Web Resources
- Course Guides
- AOL Music
- A good resource for information about contemporary music.
- ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers)
- Features news of ASCAP, current music news, membership info, legistlative news.
- Acousticmusic.net
- This site has links to acoustic music performances, artists and recordings.
- All-Music Guide
- Recording and biographical information for popular music artists.
- The American Music Center
- Maintains a circulating collection of 55,000 contemporary scores and recordings, provides information and support which unites composers, performers, presenters, and audience members.
- Andante
- "Dedicated to lovers of classical music. Its mission is two-fold: to document and preserve the 20th century's recorded heritage of classical music, and to serve as the de facto primary source of information on classical music for everyone from professionals to dedicated amateurs."
- Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music
- Cross-referenced entries, illustrations, and interesting sidebar facts and anecdotes.
- BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)
- Includes a song title catalog, music publishing and licensing information, an archive of press releases, and photos on the music industry.
- Essentials of Music
- Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for basic information about classical music, from W.W. Norton Publishers and Sony Music.
- Chordbook.com
- Excellent and easy-to-use interactive guitar helps you learn chords by allowing you to select chords, scales, tunings. Set the capo, the strum, the volume, and the type of guitar, then see the finger positions and hear the chord. Much more. Requires Macromedia Flash Player.
- Internet Resources for Music Scholars
- From Kuhn Library at Harvard, maintains links to music databases and information resources, library and music department home pages, online journals and newsletters.
- J.S. Bach Home Page
- Has sections devotd to Bach's life, lists works by BWV numbers, key, title, instruments, featured recordings, links to Bach midi files.
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
- This site has images of sheet music for musical pieces between 1820-1860 and 1870-1885, as well as a list of greatest hits from those eras.
- Musipedia: The Open Music Encyclopedia
- A useful site to help you recall the name of a particular piece of music.
- OperaGlass
- Offers selected libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, etc. Offers an opera information directory, with an opera composer index containing 4800 entries.
- The Piano Page
- Created by the Piano Technicians Guild, this is possibly the most comprehensive source for piano information on the Web. Provides information about piano manufacturers (including links to their home pages), piano care, technicians, teachers, and history.
- The Red Hot Jazz Archive
- History of jazz before 1930, with links to performers with discographies, band member lists, recording dates, portraits.
- Songfile.com
- Database of lyrics of over 2 million songs, in many languages, links to ticket sources, other sources of interest for music lovers.
- Ultimate Band List
- Comprehensive list of links to rock band sites.
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources
- Numerous links to music resources, selected by Indiana University. Also provides a link to the I.U. music library catalog.
- Yahoo Music
- This site contains many links to popular music as well as links to music videos.
