Murray State University Libraries

Internet Resources:

• Associations & Organizations

  • AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors: Music Publishers and Vendors - International list of links to music publishers and vendors.
  • American Choral Directors Association
  • American Orff-Schulwerk Association
  • American School Band Director' Association (ASBDA)
  • American String Teachers Association (ASTA)
  • Artists House Music
  • Billboard
  • BMI
  • College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA)
  • College Music Society
  • College Music Society's Database of International Music Organizations
  • Council for Research in Music Education (CRME)
  • Grammy Awards
  • International Association for Jazz Educators
  • Kentucky Music Educators Association
  • Music Educators National Conference (MENC)
  • Music Publishers Association of the United States
  • National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS)
  • National Association of Recording Merchandisers
  • Organization of American Kodály Educators
  • Radio and Records
  • RIAA
  • Society for Ethnomusicology
  • Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA)
  • US Copyright
  • Women Band Directors International (WBDI)

• Composers/Conductors/Arrangers

  • J.S. Bach Biography
  • J.S. Bach Homepage
  • Official Leonard Bernstein Website
  • Indiana University School of Music Worldwide Internet Music Resources -- Composers - Extensive listing of individual musicians web sites.
  • Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University
  • Edward Elgar -- THE ELGAR SOCIETY and THE ELGAR FOUNDATION
  • Gaylord Music Library Necrology file - Begins in the mid-1980s to present; updated frequently. Provides citations to death notices.
  • The G. F. Handel Home Page
  • Music Library Association Obituary Index - Online database of obituary citations published in the Music Library Association publication Notes; begins in 1966.
  • Biographies - From Oberlin College, this Web collection covers Composers, Librettists, Singers, Playwrights, Directors, Conductors, Choreographers, and Designers
  • Classical Composers Archive - Contains brief biographical sketches of hundreds of composers. About half include a more extensive article. Can be searched by name or nationality. Includes color-coded timelines and a "this day in history" feature.

• Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Databases

  • The Aria Database - A diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias including translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.
  • Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online - A database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
  • Instrument Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia of music instruments from around the world.
  • La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database - "The Scribe Database is a systematic collection of scores, colour images, texts and bibliographic information of medieval music which can be searched by text or melody and which will return musical information in the form of a modern score, text data and, where available, a colour facsimile of an original manuscript. It contains a complete annual cycle of liturgical chant taken from original medieval sources and complete works of selected composers from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries."
  • Music Thesaurus - Thesaurus of expression and tempo terms. Can be searched by category, English terms, or foreign language terms.
  • Operabase - Listing of festivals worldwide, details of opera performances since 1999, opera house addresses, news and reviews from some of the world's leading newspapers, an audio and video database, and links to other opera resources.
  • Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930 - Searchable database containing 5116 songs (and song sets and cycles) by women composers active in North America and England between 1890-1930

• General

  • The Choral Public Library - The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is the largest website devoted exclusively to free choral sheet music. Begun in December 1998, the site has over 250 contributors and 6,000 scores.
  • ChoralNet: The Internet Center for Choral Music - Choral music email lists, great choral composer database, church music issues, resources for choirs, and choral music links.
  • Classical Net -- A Guide to Composer Data & Works Lists - Basic repertoire list, classical CD buying guide, recommended classical CDs, composer's work and data, reviews and articles, books and scores, and classical music links.
  • Composer Timeline - Composer timeline organized by century.
  • Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - This site is devoted to vintage phonograph recordings from 1900 - 1939. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from the original 78 rpm discs in the site manager's personal collection. Includes "Radio Dismuke, a 24 hour online radio station devoted exclusively to vintage pop and jazz from the decade 1925 - 1935.
  • DW3Classical Music Resources - Billed as the largest collection of classical music links.
  • Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 - Created and maintained by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, this site makes available a sample of the library's extensive holdings, including scores and sound bytes.
  • Themefinder - Searchable database of musical themes or incipits.
  • Music History Resources - Outlines based on A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout and Claude Palisca (4th ed.).
  • Indiana University School of Music Internet Music Resources -- Music Journals and Magazines, Newspapers and Periodicals - Extensive listing of music journals, magazines, newspapers and periodicals.

• Genres & Types of Music

  • BluesNet - Artists, pictures, mentors, readings, and links to other blues web sites.
  • Early Music America - CD store, Early Music America magazine, historical performance online, concert calendar, instrument makers, and links to other early music web sites.
  • Early Music FAQs - " The web's largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music since 1994."
  • Ethnomusicology OnLine - Ethnomusicology Online multimedia web journal and links to other ethnomusicology web sites.
  • Gregorian Chant Home Page - Research dealing with Gregorian Chant with links to other chant research sites.
  • The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies - Medieval music databases, other medieval resources , medieval music societies, ensembles, and concerts, and vendors of medieval music recordings and instruments.
  • Marching Arts Directory: The Ultimate Marching Reference - Information about drum corps, marching bands, percussion, guard, newsgroups, publication, services and business guide.
  • Indiana University School of Music Internet Music Resources -- National, International and World Music - Extensive listings of national, international and world music web sites.
  • Early MusiChicago - Early Music covers the music of Bach and before--from the Baroque, Renaissance, and Middle Ages. The site tracks concert listings, performers, teachers, instrument makers and shops, organizations, publications, composers, instruments, recordings, and sheet music.
  • Popular American Music - From the UCLA Music Library digital archive, this site provides "American popular songs in the form in which they were originally published" and is designed to provide access to digital versions of the sheet music, and performances of the songs now in the public domain. Includes links to a selection of other digital sheet music collections.
  • Center for Black Music Research

• Lyrics

  • Songfile: International Lyrics Server - Database of more than 62,000 lyrics.
  • The Lied and Song Texts Page - Extensive database of lieder and other classical art songs in 25 languages.
  • Lyrics World - "Top 40 Hits of 1930-1999", "#1 Songs of 1930-1999", "Top Singles by Decade," and "Artist Collections".

• Music Education

  • The Educator's Reference Desk - Hosted by the Information Institute of Syracuse, which now covers resources once housed by AskERIC, this site includes links to lesson plans, archives, Internet sites, online communities, and organizations for the music teacher.
  • K-12 Resources for Music Educators - Large list of sites for music educators organized by band, choral, orchestra, classroom music teachers, and other music resources.
  • AskERIC Lesson Plans - More than 1100 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.
  • Teachers.Net Lesson Bank - Teaching ideas and lesson plans.
  • Music Education Online - From the Children's Music Workshop based in the Los Angeles area. Primary for the instrumentalist.

This page contains links to sites related to the listed subjects. If you know of a link that you think should be added, or if you find a problem with one of the links, please send your suggestions to reference@murraystate.edu