American Music Conference
ARTSEDGE (Kennedy Center)
Children's Music Web
Education World: Music
National K-12 Standards and Pre-K Standards (MENC)
Online Music Theory Reference (©1997- José Rodríguez Alvira)
String Pedagogy Notebook (University of Vermont)
The Symphony: An Interactive Guide - Includes a brief history of the symphony and a list of composers who made great contributions to the form. In addition, the site features a symphony timeline, a guide to instruments of the orchestra and an explanation of symphonic form
Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Music
Librarian Selected Internet Resources: Education (UW-Whitewater, Andersen Library)

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Internet Site Directories (Music):

Voice of the Shuttle: Music and Dance Page
Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies (for popular music)
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University)
Yahoo!: Music

Specific Topics

Classical Music

andante - access to some components requires registration (), including Reference selections: Compositions (search by composer), Music in Print (searchable classical sheet music in and out of print), and concert notes (discussion of hundreds of symphonies, concertos and operas). Search for and listen to music in the "Musicroom" portion of the site.
Classical Composers' Archive
Classical Music Resources (Duke University Libraries) - Links to many resources, including composer sites, chronologies, databases, etc.

Jazz

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition. Part of Grove Music Online -
WNUR-FM JazzWeb

Opera

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Part of Grove Music Online -
Operissimo Encyclopaedia of Opera
Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts -

Search the following titles: The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Who's Who In Opera, The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre.

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Instruments

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The Orchestra / Instruments (Philharmonia Orchestra, London)

Members of the orchestra provide information about playing techniques, instrument construction, and more. Select an instrument on the left side of the page.
International Clarinet Association
International Double Reed Society - includes full-text access (after two years) to the Journal and The Double Reed, and a bassoon-family fingering companion
Flute Fingering Chart, Trill Chart (Emerson Flutes USA)
International Horn Society
Douglas Yeo Trombone Web Site
International Trumpet Guild
The Woodwind Fingering Guide

Lyrics & Opera Librettos

The Aria Database (Robert Glaubitz)
Digital Tradition Folk Song Database

Use the search box n the upper left corner.
The Lied and Song Texts Page
Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts

Midi

Classical Piano Midi Page (Bernd Krueger)
Introduction to Computer Music - etext (Jeffrey Hass, University of Indiana, Bloomington)

Chapter 3 is on MIDI.

Sheet Music

19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - alphabetical listing
19th-Century California Sheet Music (Mary Kay Duggan, University of California Berkeley)
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress: American Memory project)
Chopin Early Editions (University of Chicago Library)

This is a digital image collection of over 400 of Chopin's first and early scores, searchable by titles, genres, and plate numbers.
The Choral Public Domain Library
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection (Lewis Music Library, MIT)
Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection (University of North Texas Music Library) - 23 rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas and ballets by the 17th-century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons.
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins University)

The collection consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music spanning the years 1780 to 1980, but focuses on nineteenth-century American popular music. It is especially strong in music spawned by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I. Minstrel music is also well-represented. Other topics include music about the circus, dance, drinking, temperance, smoking, fraternal orders, presidents, romantic and sentimental songs, schools and colleges, and transportation. Music published before 1923 and in the public domain is digitized.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music from 1870-1885 (Library of Congress: American Memory project)
Music Lyrics Resources (Shirley E. Kaiser)

This is a site listing many sites at which lyrics may be found. Some of the listings are for lyrics by specific artists.
Wisconsin Sheet Music Database (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - searchable bibliographic information, no digitized music provided

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Miscellaneous Topics:

African Studies: Music and Dance of Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
Alexander Technique for Musicians (Alexander Technique Center of Washington, D.C.)
American Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets (Library of Congress: American Memory project)
ARTISTdirect
The Center for Voice Disorders (Wake Forest University)
Common Music Notation (Bill Schottstaedt, Stanford University)
Early English Books Online -

This is a searchable digital collection of English-language publications during the period 1641-1700, mostly printed in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America. Among the publications are numerous early English ballads, motets, and carols.
Essentials of Music (W.W. Norton & Sony Music) - composers, eras of music history, glossary of terms
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music (University of Washington Library)
Gaylord Music Library Necrology (Washington University, St. Louis, MO)
GramoFile - Reviews from Gramophone magazine
Gregorian Chant Home Page (Peter Jeffery, Princeton University)
The Hoagy Carmichael Collection (Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University) - browse scanned images of sheet music, lyrics, photographs, etc.
International Alliance for Women in Music
Metasites and Direcoties of Sites (Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Music Selection Resources
Omaha Indian Music (Library of Congress: American Memory project) - audio & photographs
ThemeFinder (Stanford University and Ohio State University)

This is a searchable database of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Folksong themes.
The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946

This collection provides searchable data, digitized audio and visual materials from two collections housed in three discrete but closely related repositories. It contains Wisconsin field recordings, notes, and photographs made by UW-Madison faculty member Helene Stratman-Thomas as part of the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin and the Library of Congress during the summers of 1940, 1941, and 1946; and recordings collected by song catcher Sidney Robertson Cowell during the summer of 1937 for the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration. Information is provided about each folksong and audio files of many original performances. There are also transcribed melodies, lyrics, performance photographs, and critical commentary listing concordant sources for the tunes and excerpts of field notes by the collector(s). Over 900 performances representing more than thirty ethnic or geographical sources are included. While vocal music predominates, instruments such as the accordion, guitar, Hardanger fiddle, psalmodikon, and tamburica are also presented.

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Copyright Information

Copyright Resource Center (Music Publishers' Association)
Copyright for Music Librarians (Music Library Association)
U.S. Copyright Office
- Copyright Basics
- Copyright Registration for Musical Compositions

Dictionaries

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri, & Acronyms (UW-Whitewater Andersen Library)
Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts -

Search the following titles: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Who's Who In Opera, The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre.

Encyclopedias

Grove Music Online -

This online resource consists of the full text of three print titles: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition 2002, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition 2001, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992. Some articles have been updated more recently online.

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Electronic Journals

Music Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, and Periodicals (Indiana University School of Music)
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) -
- Computer Music Journal v.25-30 (2001-2006)
- Latin American Music Review v.22-26 (2001-2005)
- Leonardo Music Journal v.10-15 (2000-2005)
- Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association v.57-62 (2000/2001-2005/2006)
- Opera Quarterly v.18-21 (2002-2005)
- PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art v. 18-28, (1996-2006)
- Philosophy of Music Education Review v.11-14 (2003-2006)
- Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture v.8-9 (2004-2005)
Critical Musicology
Ethnomusicology OnLine
Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft
Guitar and Lute Issues
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
LAMusiCa (Latin American Music Center, Indiana University)
Music & Anthropology: Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean
MuSICA Research Notes
Music Theory Online
Online Trombone Journal
Research Perspectives in Music Education
Transcultural Music Review

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Indexes to Music Literature

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science, Institute for Scientific Information, 1987- ) -

Multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed for searching for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. The database may be searched for articles citing a particular article. The information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (bibliography). After connecting to the database, click on "ISI Web of Science."
DDM-Online Doctorial Dissertations in Musicology Online (Indiana University)
Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb) -

Citations with abstracts, and full-text articles from selected periodicals. Coverage: 1984 to date (indexing) and 1995 to date (full-text from selected publications).
International Index to Music Periodicals (Chadwyck-Healey) -

Citations with abstracts, and full-text articles from selected publications
International Index to the Performing Arts (Chadwyck-Healey) -

There may be some overlap between this database and the IIMP (above), but not entirely. Try IIPA for any musical topic having to do with theatre, dance, film, etc., e.g., opera.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Ebscohost, 1967- ) -

This database of citations with abstracts covers articles from over 500 scholarly journals, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals are indexed if they are of scholarly interest.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) (Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, Indiana University)

Searchable database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and Renaissance
More Indexes & Databases, Arranged by Subject: Arts | General (UW-Whitewater Andersen Library)

Tips for Searching Library Catalogs

Library Catalog

The easiest method is a keyword search for [composer last name] and ["title of work"]. If sound recordings are desired, add and "sound recording" to the search (or select that Quick Limit). If scores are wanted, add and score?. Examples:
- mozart and "cosi fan tutte"
- mozart and "cosi fan tutte" and "sound recording"
- mozart and "cosi fan tutte" and score?
A desired title may be in a collection of the composer's works. Do a keyword search for [composer last name] and tkey works and (score? or music) not "sound recording", e.g., brahms and tkey works and (score? or music) not "sound recording" Alternatively, first click on the "Set more limits" button and select the "Item Type" of Music Score, then click on the "Set Limits" button. Then do a keyword search for the composer's last name, e.g., mozart and piano.

Collected works of a composer may have a non-English title such as "Samtliche Werke," but catalogs usually add a "uniform title" of "Works" to make it easier to find these sets.
Principles of Music Uniform Titles (Matthew M. Wise, New York University)

"Libraries use music uniform titles in their catalog records to uniquely identify and to collocate similar printed and recorded musical works by a composer. Music uniform titles are a device by which musical scores and recordings may be found more easily in a library's catalog. However, if they are to be employed effectively, music uniform titles must be understood by the user of the catalog."

Last revised: BRB - August 10, 2007

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