Annotated Web links, academically oriented and other, on the subject of Music.
Biographical Info. | Dictionaries | Digitized Sheet Music | Genres/Styles
Online Periodicals | Popular Music |
Reviews | Societies & Organizations
Texts: Songs & Libretti | Resource Links
Biographical Information
Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers Brief biographies and lists of major works of composers, arranged by time period.
Gaylord Music Library Necrology File Death dates of musicians and sources for obituaries.
Dictionaries
The Classical Music Pages Term definitions, composer dates, etc.
Digitized Sheet Music
African American Sheet Music 1850-1920 From Brown University, 1,305 pieces of sheet music.
Chopin Early Editions 400 first and early printed editions of Chopin, from the University of Chicago Library.
Choral Public Domain Library "Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers."
Civil War Sheet Music Collection Approximately 2500 pieces of music about the Civil War, from both the Union and Confederacy.
Gutenberg: Sheet Music Project "Project Gutenberg volunteers have been engaging in digitizing public domain sheet music, using a variety of techniques, to enable study and performance. For the most part, the musical pieces created have been chamber music, with composers such as Brahms and Beethoven."
Historic American Sheet Music Digital images of over 3,000 pieces of music published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
Hymn Wiki "HymnWiki is a site dedicated to hymns, children's songs (at least ones associated with churches and religion), religious anthems, church music, and compilations of such, with a large focus on the music of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church) - though it is meant for all church hymns, regardless of of affiliation."
International Music Score Library A public domain music score library of over 10,000 scores. Browse scores by composer, composer period, work genre, or work period.
Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection From the Lewis Music Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, approximately 50 pieces of sheet music dating from 1890-1920 about technologies or that portray technologies in their cover art.
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University. Images of popular American sheet music prior to 1923 (in the public domain).
Mozart Edition Online The complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart online.
Music Australia Music by Australian composers. Not everything is available online; click the "scores" link on the left side of the page, then click on the link to the online scores.
Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music, 1820-1860, 1870-1885, Library of Congress Sheet music registered for copyright in the pre-Civil War period.
Mutopia, "The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. [They] also host a growing number of modern editions, arrangements and new music. The respective editors, arrangers and composers have chosen to make these works freely available."
Popular American Music Collection from UCLA - popular music from 1790s to present.
Project Gutenberg- Sheet Music Project Digitized, public domain sheet music, including Bach, Beethoven Chopin, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and more.
Sheet Music Archive Over 10,000 pages of classical piano music (public domain). Two free downloads a day, or subscribe for a small fee. Search by composer.
Sheet Music Collections- Music Library Association Links to online, public access digitized sheet music collections.
Volcano of Delight: Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922 9,000 pieces of sheet music, primarily from 1850-1920. Including pieces by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Victor Herbert.
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive Look for the section labeled "Free Sheet Music." Mostly classical sheet music in PDF file format.
Genres/Styles
Gregorian Chant Home Page Chant and medieval music links.
Operabase Opera history, summaries, reviews, international performance schedules and more.
Online Periodicals
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
Popular Music
Hip-Hop Webliography - from Simmons College.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.
Billboard.com - news, charts, reviews, and more.
All-Music Guide - classical and popular music.
Popular American Music Collection from UCLA - popular music from 1790s to present.
Reviews
52nd Street Jazz and Latin music reviews and news.
Societies & Organizations
American Musicological Society
Texts: Songs and Libretti
Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts Links to texts of libretti from a variety of sites.
UTK Song Index Index to songs in anthologies.
IPASource.com IPA transcriptions and word-for-word translations of songs and arias in Latin, German, and French.
Resources
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online America's Best Hospitals 2003 is the magazine's 14th annual edition. 203 medical centers in 17 specialties are ranked.
A Guide to Musical Program Notes and Analyses, UCLA Print sources for assistance in writing program notes and analyses, check the MILLINET Online Catalog to verify whether or not we have a particular resource.
Indiana University Worldwide Internet Music Resources List
Music Publisher's Association List of publisher's contact addresses and copyright information included.
