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Acadia
Early Music Archive
- from Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Arto
Wikla's Music Page
- dedicated to a hodge-podge of early music information.
- Early music Chicago
- a web portal to the Early Music scene in Chicago and beyond. Although
EMC's focus
is on early music in and around Chicago, early music enthusiasts from
everywhere will
find much of general interest at the site.
Early MusiChicago tracks concert listings, performers, teachers, instrument
makers and
shops, organizations, publications, composers, instruments, recordings,
sheet
music-all this and much, much more. Truly, the site covers "all
things early music."
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Afrocentric Voices
- focuses on African American performers and composers and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera, art songs and spiritual arrangements. (An annoying cookie setter.)
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The Library and Archives
of the Center for Black Music Research
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Iberian
& Latin-American Music OnLine
- International inventory of villancico texts, Iberian Discoveries electronic journal, and more.
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Information on joining the Jewish Music listserv
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Jewish Music WebCenter
- to provide a forum for gathering and presenting information on academic, organizational, and personal activities in Jewish music today.
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Starting Research in Jewish Music
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The
International Alliance for Women in Music
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Association of Research
Libraries
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IAML
(International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation
Centres)
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Music Library
Association homepage
- 2007 annual meeting handouts
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MLA-L
- The Music Library Association listserv via USENET
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MOLA
- Major Orchestra Librarians' Association
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New England Music Library Association (NEMLA)
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International
Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts
- Great international listing of Performing
Arts Collections and Institutions
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- ADLAIS
- Specialist publisher of harp music
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Association
for Latin-American Music & Art
- devoted to the promotion and distribution of music and art created
by Latin-Americans.
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De Wolfe Music Publishers
- Sound effects for a wide range of applications
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Frank Music
Company
- Classical Music of All Publishers
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Theodore Front Musical
Literature, Inc.
- a primary resource site for the serious musician
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Harmonie
Park Press
- Publishers of The Music Index and other fine books about music.
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Hildegard Publishing
Company
- TFounded in 1988 by Sylvia Glickman to promote and preserve the music
of women composers of the past and present
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JL Publishing
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Little Piper
- an extensive library of flute music and publications
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Lux Nova - Publisher
of Music
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Lyra Music
Publications - the world's largest publisher and distributor of
harp music. Great resource for flute and harp music.
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Mel Bay
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Musicnotes.com
- 12,000 digital sheet music titles, 200,000 traditional music books,
single sheets and more.
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Music Publishers' Association
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Nourse
Wind Publications
- Especially for flute-related information.
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Pepper Music Network
- Printed music of all publishers.
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Vanderbilt Music
- Harp specialists.
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Wolfmusic
Publications, Ltd.
- A music publishing company where state of the art technology is used
to produce the finest classical music scores.
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- American Federation of Musicians
- Musicians Union of Australia
- Musicians'
Union - United Kingdom
- The Recording Industry
Association of America
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- Audio Net
- 260 radio and television stations from around the U.S., plus some
400 special events each day.
- Imagine Radio
- 20 radio stations created just for the Web
- Interlochen Public Radio
- Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
- Princeton
Sound Kitchen, from Princeton University
- WETA radio
- Washington, D.C. area radio station
- WPFW 89.3 FM
- Pacifica Radio - DC
- Y-FM
- kwaito, hip-hop, house, R & B, and reggae
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American
Sheet Music - Library of Congress
- Part of the American Memory project.
- The Americana
Sheet Music Collection
- From the Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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California
Sheet Music Project
- A window on 19th-Century California.
- Center for Popular Music
- the entire collection has been cataloged
and can be searched from the website. Contains a collection of
roughly 3300 American broadsides that have been digitized and are searchable
- Digital Sheet Music Project
- at the University of South Carolina
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Gaylord Music Library : Supplementary Catalog
- At present, this catalog contains 24,000 entries, primarily of sheet
music published in St. Louis and Missouri as well as music published
on Missouri themes and topics.
- Sheldon Harris Sheet Music Collection
- To quote Paul T. Jackson from MLA-L: Sheldon Harris was an avid record collector, and he began his collection
as a young man growing up in Brooklyn. During his life, he also served
as the blues editor of "Jazz & Pop Magazine", and also found time to
publish an important biographical dictionary of blues singers and an
oral history of jazz as told by jazz trombonist and blues singer, Clyde
E.B. Bernhardt. This particular digital sheet music collection pays
tribute to his work, and it was created by The University of Mississippi
Department of Archives and Special Collections.
- Historic Sheet Music Collection
- University of Oregon. Features Oregon Music and
and Women Composers collections
- Indiana University Sheet Music
- This web site allows you to search some of the holdings from the Lilly
Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music, including those
for which there are digitized images available.
- International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- IMSLP attempts to create 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. Scores in .pdf format.
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The Lester
S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
- part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of
The Johns Hopkins University. contains over 29,000 pieces of music and
focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960.
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musicnotes.com
- The world's favorite sheet music store
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Organizing Sheet Music (with thanks to Bill Gruffe<billgruffe@yahoo.com>
- The Historic American Sheet Music Project
- Music for the Nation - American Sheet Music (Library of Congress)
- http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/
- Sheet Music Cataloging Guidelines (Duke University)
- Catalogablog (David Bigwood)
- ORGANIZE! Your
Sheet Music (software program)
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The Peter,
Paul and Mary site
- Lyrics, song list, guitar chords and more.
- Sheet Music Consortium
- The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward
the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using
the Open Archives Initiative:Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI:PMH).
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Sheet Music
Direct
- Access to an ever-growing selection of authorized, legal sheet music
for sale on the internet.
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Sheet
Music Information from the Music Library Association
- including a Bibliography of sources for cataloging sheet music, cataloging
guidelines, and Libraries and archives links to collections with significant
holdings of sheet music.
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Sunhawk
- Thousands of best-selling sheet music titles.
- University of Michigan's OAIster Project
- The Project's goal is "to create a collection of freely available,
difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources . . .
that are easily searchable by anyone."
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Worship Together
- Requires registration.
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- ActioNext
- a large user-updated lyrics archive supported by ads
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American Song-Poem Music Archives
- "The American Song-Poem Music Archives is compiled by a loose-knit band of freelance, foaming-at-the-mouth record collectors who thrive on the ironic, the beautiful and the weird."
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ASCAP's
ACE
- ACE is a database of song titles licensed by ASCAP in the United States. For each title, you can find the names of the songwriters and the names, contact persons, addresses and, in most cases, phone numbers of publishers to contact if you want to use the work. (From the FAQ.)
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The
Traditional Ballad Index is a collaborative effort designed to help
people find reference information on folk ballads.
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Beatles Song
Index
- a list of all the Beatles' songs and links to their lyrics. Look for the "The Songs" link.
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BMI.com
- BMI's database includes BMI information - with access to the song title registration information contained in the BMI repertoire, including foreign works registered with BMI for performance in the United States and arrangements of works in the public domain.
- Beatles song indices
- Beatles song index with lyrics
- The Lennon / Mccartney Collaboration
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The Carpenters Song Lyric List
- in alphabetical order and indexed by first released album name. Television performances are not included, nor are solo performances.
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Depeche
Mode Alphabetized Song Index
- Songs are also listed by individual album.
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Bob Dylan Song Index
- http://www.lyricsfreak.com/
- From Ashanti to ZZ top
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Index
to Arias and Art Songs in Collections
- a rather cryptic alphabetical listing of thousands of art songs with unexplained numerical entries after the title and composer, e.g. Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore Puccini Tosca 89.
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Index
to Popular Tunes in Collections
- This database is offered with no introduction or explanation and minimal instruction.
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International
Lyrics Server
- Back up and running!
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The
Janis Joplin Song File
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Lyrics
World
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Madonna
Song Index
- A list of every version of Madonna's songs officially released. No dates provided either for album or song.
- Joni Mitchell lyrics
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Patchogue-Medford Library Song Index
- an index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. Approximately 78,000 popular songs are included in the 995 books which have been indexed.
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Popular
Song Index
- an index to songs in popular music collections and fakebooks held by the University of Washington Music Library that are not in the following: Where's that tune?, Popular Song Index, Songs in Collections, Index to Song Books.
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Schubert
Lieder
- (Search for "Schubert")
- Soundtrack Lyrics
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UTK Song Index
- a publicly available database providing access to about 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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WWW
Music Database
- Searchable index for album/song titles. Veracity of data open to question.
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