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the ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project: identifies exemplary user education and training materials supporting the use of the Internet and other networked information resources. Good resource for definitions of almost all music types.
Music in the Afghan north: This website presents fieldwork and publication materials from Mark Slobin's research in Afghanistan.
AMG All Music Guide: Classical, Rock, Rap and more. Articles, maps, glossary and top 500 classical composers listed.
The Aria Database: The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias.
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
Andante online magazine: Calendar, reference, music room, etc., etc. Quite a comprehensive site.
Louis Armstrong House and Archives: Realaudio, lots of photos
The Australian Music Centre: The Australian Music Centre was incorporated in Sydney, Australia, in 1974 to collect and promote the music of Australian composers.
Preserving Access to Digital Information: National Library Of Australia
Bach Cantata website: conceived and is regularly updated by Matthias Roeder who is currently a candidate for the PhD degree in musicology at Harvard University - Institutions, Departments and Societies, General Bach Links, Catalogue of Works and Bibliographies and more
Bel Canto Society: Remastering CDs and DVDs & video of old opera recordings.
Bibliographic Formats & Stantards: provides tagging conventions, input standards and guidelines for entering information.
Brazilian contemporary music
The British Library National Sound Archive
Chamber music wiki: intended for use by members of the MLA Conservatories Roundtable
Chicago Blues Archives
Greater Boston Flute Association
Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists: This report describes in nontechnical language the various types of CDs and DVDs now in use, how they are made, and how they work. It then distills current industry knowledge about disc longevity, conditions that affect life expectancy, and how to care for optical media. The guide is amply illustrated and includes a glossary and bibliography. Full-Text (pdf): http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf

Center for Contemporary Music: at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Classical CD Reviews: All reviews include label, spars code, total time and general price range.
Classical music used in films
Cultural Policy and the Arts Data Archive: An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture.
The Daughter of the Regiment: Freedictionary.com; Naxos.com
Digital Best Practices website: Cost Factors, Preparing, Hardware & Software, and more
Early or Historical Sound Recordings Collections and other 78 & Cylinder
Lisa Cox Music: Rare & Antiquarian Music Dealer
An American Ballroom Companion - Dance Instruction manuals 1490 - 1920: A multimedia collection of dance materials
Willie Dixon: Blues musician
The Estate Project: for artists with AIDS
Film music resources: Film & TV Music Resources (includes info on composers) - University of Washington; Film and Television Music Archives - UCLA; Film Music Magazine - listings in Scoreboard of who is scoring the music for various coming films; Film music society

Gender, Education, Music, and Society: a peer-reviewed, on-line journal that explores the myriad intersections between gender, education, music and society
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: "The Leading Custodian of the G&S Classics"
Global Music Archive: a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and North and South America
The Golden Pages: Links for musicians from Royal Holloway, Univeristy of London - classified links for bibliographic aids & links, composers' homepages, etc., as well as unclassified links from Aberdeen Bach Choir to the Yellow Pages.
A Guide to Musical Program Notes and Analyses: Compiled and Annotated by Stephen M. Fry
Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
Harmony Central: large site with links to music archives, magazines, equipment manufacturers, computer software, retailers and wholesalers and more.
Music History 102: a guide to Western composers and their music from the Middle Ages to the present, compiled by Robert Sherrane Senior Cataloging Librarian, The Juilliard School
Hollywood, CA's musician's union: links to fees charged for music copying, arranging, etc.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Indiana University
Institute of Museum and Library Services
International Inventory of Musical Sources
International Music Score Library Project: a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.
Italian Music Homepage: Italian music libraries, teaching instutions, theaters and concert halls, and more.
52nd Street - Jazz Review Website: Search for Jazz Review Index.
The Jewish Theological Seminary Library Treasures: features some of The Library's most outstanding treasures —The Rothschild Mahzor, the Prato Haggadah, the Esslingen Mahzor, genizah fragments representing Maimonides and Judah Halevi, and others
Journal Storage (JSTOR): The Music Collection contains the complete back runs of thirty-one (31) new JSTOR titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music. This collection has a far more international selection of titles than any previous JSTOR collection, including journals published in the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Germany and France. It addresses issues that span diverse musical genres such as World Music in television advertisements and "Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music." One can find articles published as early as 1844, as well as articles that tackle musicology in the contemporary era; subjects from the study of musical instruments to the "Construction of Albanian National Subjectivity" through poetry and songs. Manuscript studies, criticism and book reviews from respected scholars, musicians and composers such as Aaron Copland, Allen Forte and Jean-Jacques Nattiez also distinguish this collection.
Kenyan Music: Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya; Trends in Kenyan Popular Music
Library Career Romances: Jinny Williams, Library Assistant, Kitsy Babcock, Library Assistant, and more
Library of Congress - American Memory - Performing Arts - Music: Thirty collections from African Americans to Variety Stage, including Bernstein & Copland.
Lied and Song Texts Page: An Archive of Texts to Lieder and other Classical Art Songs (Kunstlieder, Mélodies, Canzoni, Romansy, Canciones, Liederen, Canções, Sånger, Laulua, etc.) as well as many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces, with thousands of translations to English, French and other languages.
Lied and Song Text Page 2: an archive of 18,048 texts used in Lieder and other classical Art Songs (Kunstlieder, Mélodies, Canzoni, Romansy, Canciones, Liederen, Canções, Sånger, Laulua, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces
Librarysupportstaff.com: Resources for on the job
Lisjobs.com: Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals
Seymour Lubetzky: Cataloging theorist.
Modulo di Ricerca Materiale Musicale: Italian language database
Music & Politics: An electronic journal published online twice a year.
Directory of Library School Offerings in Music Librarianship
Music Dictionary Online: "explains words and terms found in musical scores, in books and on web sites, in notes on CDs or concert programmes."
Music from the movies: News, reviews, links and more.
Music metadata
Music Library Association's Directory of Music User Guides
Music Program Notes for Band and Wind Ensemble Music: "ordered by composer, of the program notes and biographies generated for use in programs for performances of the Foothill College Symphonic Wind Ensemble," Los Altos Hills, CA
Music Thesaurus Project Advisory Task Force: A good list of internet resources.
Music under Soviet Rule: Shatokovich, Prokofiev, Ustvolskaja and more
Musica et memoria: French language (and some English) site that includes composer biographies and photos, history of the Prix de Rome, etc.
MuSICA Music and Science Information Computer Archive: Scientific research (references & abstracts) on music as related to behavior, the brain and allied field.
Musicians Gallery: Profiles of musicians and related services worldwide (many photos).
Mutopia project: All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
New Jour: the Internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet
New Music Box: The web magazine from the American Music Center
New Sound: International Magazine for Music: founded in 1993 by the Union of Yugoslav Composers' Organizations
NOTES style sheet: From the Music Library Association
Nursery Crimes: Hard-core band from Australia
Orchestralist: for orchestral conductors of college, community, high school and professional ensembles
Opera libretti: Important web libretti sources; Libretti - Top of the pops for opera libretti per David Fredric Sommerfield; OperaLiber - Biblioteca digitale del libretto d'opera — the most attractive source for opera libretti Italian language site
OperaStuff.com: Opera singers, opera companies, links and more
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences: Official site for the Oscars
The James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition: Founded in 1980 to promote the performance and study of the flute, in memory of James Pappoutsakis, long-time flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
PER MUSI - Revista Acadêmica de Música: a free access publication of the Graduate Music Program of UFMG (Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil) with articles in Portugese, Spanish, and English.
The Performance Practice Review: "a blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of Western musical performance practices. It is not confined to any historical period."
The Pianola Institute: a registered charity which was founded in 1985 to bring about a better understanding and appreciation of player pianos
Piobaireachd Manuscripts: Piobaireachd is an adjective to describe "that part of the Highland bagpipe repertory known otherwise as ceòl mór (great music) or a single item of that repertory." (Peter Cooke, "Pibroch", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 31 October 2008), http://www.grovemusic.com
Polish Music from Middle Ages to Baroque
Center for Popular Music, Murfreesboro TN
Popular Music Analysis bibliography: If you are interested in the theoretical analyis of popular music. Link on the page is to a word processing document.
Pronouncing dictionary: From WOI Radio. Help with "Pronouncing the titles of classical music and the names of composers and performers"
Quirky music references: By John Wagstaff
Rare Music Site: Items from the early 1800s to 1980s.
RDA - Resource Description and Access: Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR
The Rec Music Foundation: its current activities are focused on Classicial Midi with Words and an extensive Lied and Song Texts Page.
Association for Recorded Sound Collections: a non-profit organization dedicated to research, study, publication, and information exchange surrounding all aspects of recordings and recorded sound.
ITER Gateway to the Renaissance: a complete multidiscipline bibliographical database of all subject matter material concerning Europe, ca. 400-1700 A.D.
Reggaeton: a Spanish language genre of Dancehall with distinct Hip hop and Pop Music influences, originating in Panama
Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale: International Repertory of Music Literature, Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur. See also, NISC BiblioLine and OCLC FirstSearch
Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
RoJaRo - Index: A key to articles, discographies, live-/record-reviews in the music press worldwide from January 1992 to date, now incorporationg record label info. Styles covered: Blues, Country, Gospel, Soul, Rap, Metal, Reggae, Punk, World music, Progressive, Folk, etc.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: This bibliography presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.
Music Selection Resources on the WWW: King County Library System, Washington State
Sacred Harp and Related Shape-Note Music: Resources
Shape Singing Schools
Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound
Society for American Music: Formerly Sonneck Society
Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database: documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States
Thesaurus of Musical Instruments: containing 1483 entries from Accordeon to Zvegljica. Music Librarianship class project by Keith Jenkins.; Our purpose is to promote and preserve traditional music around the world.
20^th Century Music Pathfinder: a guide to literature about art music in the 20th century found in the collections at the New England Conservatory. Compiled by Suzanne Temple.
Caetano Veloso: one of Brazil's greatest contemporary songwriters
: From Europe Jazz Network, MUSICIANS - biography and discography
Cosmopolis - concert and CD reviews
http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/veloso.html - biography and discography
Virtual Rare Book Room: University of North Texas Music Library
The Ever Expanding Web Music Listing
Wessex Parallel WebTexts: an anthology of edited Middle English lyrics (concentrating particularly
on the 'Harley Lyrics'), translations of some longer Middle English
works, and background resources for use in teaching
International Association of Women in Music
Women at the Piano: This site lists the names of over 300 women, many of whom concertized on a national/ international level from 1750 to the present. There are links to the home pages of most of the living pianists listed, as well as a time-line of historical superstars.
Women of 70's Punk
Women's Studies Research Center: Brandeis University

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