Music Resources

https://www.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachbib/
From: Yo Tomita, Queen's University of Belfast (UK) Database of research on history's most studied composer. "This electronic publication project is precisely aimed at maintaining the most up-to-date information, with advanced search facilities not previously available."

https://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven/
From: The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies The Beethoven Bibliography Database at San Jose State University includes books, articles, and score editions available in the Beethoven Center at San Jose State. The Center is the only institution in North America devoted solely to the life, works, and accomplishments of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), and now has the largest collection of Beethoven materials outside of Europe.

https://www.ams-net.org/ddm/
From: The American Musicological Society. The DDM is an international 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. Currently containing over 14,000 records, including the corrected and updated contents of all earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology and supplements contributed from musicological centers throughout the world, the database is fully searchable.

https://www.unitus.org/FULL/Belkin.pdf
From: Alan Belkin (belkina@yahoo.com) This website is a pdf version of the book: "A Practical Guide to Musical Composition," an introductory college-level text in composition. Its aim is to discuss fundamental principles of musical composition in concise, practical terms, and to provide guidance for student composers.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/
Independent, online-only journal includes feature articles, artist profiles, CD, movie and book reviews,interviews, etc. Complete archives.

https://sscm-jscm.org/
As its title implies, this journal features scholarly articles on all aspects of 17th century music, including performance, theory, practice, aesthetics, and more. Dates of coverage include 1995-2000; each issue also includes book and other media reviews. From the University of Illinois Press.

https://www.ictmusic.org/studygroup/mms
The International Council for Traditional Music is a scholarly organization which aims to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation, and dissemination of traditional music and dance of all countries. To these ends the Council organizes World Conferences, Symposia, and Colloquia, and publishes the Yearbook for Traditional Music and the online Bulletin of the ICTM. Formerly the "Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures".

https://societymusictheory.org/publications
From: Society for Music Theory Electronic journal of music theory. " Each issue includes a target article, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of International Correspondents. In addition, MTO publishes announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for papers, a list of job opportunities, abstracts of recently completed in-progress dissertations, and summaries of recently published books."

https://polishmusic.usc.edu/research/publications/polish-music-journal/
From: Polish Music Center, University of Southern California Featuring peer-reviewed articles, reviews, samples of sound illustrations and musical scores about the works of Polish composers created in Poland and elsewhere. Articles are in English. Dates of coverage: Summer 1998-2003.

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
ProQuest's Alumni Research Library contains over 5,300 journal titles across all subject disciplines, including arts, business, education, humanities, literature, political science and psychology. For many of these journals, citations and abstracts are available from 1971 to the present. Full text coverage varies by journal, but typically begins with the mid-1990s. Browse a list of titles included in ProQuest Research Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://go-gale-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/ps/start.do?p=GDCS&u=jhu_alum
Primary sources from over 48 databases covering everything from literature to historic newspapers to public health archives to Indigenous Peoples of North America and more. Searchable separately or all at once.

https://www-oxfordmusiconline-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011). Together, they offer more than 52,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition, which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users [from Oxford Music Online About webpage]. 

https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
For nearly 30 years, Project MUSE has been the trusted and reliable source for access to essential humanities and social science research, as an integral part of the scholarly communications ecosystem and platform of choice for respected not-for-profit publishers. Currently, Project MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and more than 90,000 books from nearly 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers [from the website]

https://meridian-allenpress-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/rrimo
Recent Researches in Music Online is a subscription service for libraries, providing online access to the complete content of the seven Recent Researches in Music series.

https://sk-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Sage's ebook platform, where you will find a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content. Also contains CQ Press ebooks, including Historic Documents of 2020, The CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the Unites States, Guide to U.S. Elections, 7th ed., Washington Information Directory 2022-2023, Congress A to Z, Vital Statistics on American Politics 2017-2020, State Rankings 2017: A Statistical View of America, State Rankings 2018: A Statistical View of America.

https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/american-folklife-center/about-this-research-center/
The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress incorporates the Library's Archive of Folk Culture, which is a repository for American folk music. The Folkline information service provides timely information on national events, jobs, and training opportunities in folklife.

https://www.aria-database.com/
From: Robert Glaubitz The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic MIDI files to give visitors and idea of what each aria sounds like. Currently the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers.

http://www.earlymusic.net/
Early Music Network Inc. is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote, revive and support historical performance practice all over the world. To join or get more information how you can help, choose the MEMBERSHIP link.

https://www.cmaworld.com/
The Country Music Association has organizational and individual members in 43 countries. The organization guides and enhances the development of Country Music throughout the world; demonstrates it as a viable medium to advertisers, consumers and media; and provides a unity of purpose for the Country Music industry.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/
(From: The Library of Congress) Comprised of two separate collections, this project, which is part of the American Memory Project, is a collection of over 60,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright from 1820-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular vocal music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and some music for band and orchestra.

https://www.amsmusicology.org/
"The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship."" At present, 3,300 individual members and 1,200 institutional subscribers from forth nations participate in the Society. Student membership is available.

https://www.ascap.com/
ASCAP is a membership association of over 160,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music.

https://www.arsc-audio.org/index.php
From website: "The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals—everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound."

https://blues.org/
The Blues Foundation is a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. With over 100 affiliated blues organizations, and membership spanning twenty-four countries, the Foundation serves as the umbrella organization for the worldwide resurgence in blues music.

https://gospelmusic.org/
The Gospel Music Association supports, encourages and promotes the development of all forms of gospel music.

https://ibma.org/
The International Bluegrass Music Association works for high standards of professionalism, a greater appreciation for bluegrass music, and the success of the worldwide bluegrass community.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/i/icmc/
"The International Computer Music Association is an international affiliation of individuals and institutions involved in the technical, creative, and performance aspects of computer music. It serves composers, computer software and hardware developers, researchers, and musicians who are interested in the integration of music and technology."

https://nafme.org/
The National Association for Music Education (MENC) seeks to improve the quality of music teaching and learning and to increase support for music education in schools and communities. The Association sets standards for music education, publishes journals, supports foundations, and participates in media events to raise public awareness of music education.

http://www.earlymusic.info/
The National Early Music Association of the UK brings together all concerned with early music and forges links with other early music organizations in the UK and around the world. NEMA also acts to represent musicians in the early music field.

https://www.american-music.org/?
"Founded in honor of Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, The Society for American Music, a nonprofit scholarly and educational organization, seeks to stimulate the appreciation, performance, creation, and study of American music in all its historical and contemporary styles and contexts. These include, but are not limited to, art ("classical") music, popular music, musical theater, folk music, music for the dance,church music, the musics of ethnic groups and minorities, and the full range of activities associated with music" Student membership available; interest groups for subspecialties.

https://www.ascap.com/ace/#/
From: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) "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." The public performance of a musical composition is an intellectual property right covered by copyright law. Performances of music are protected by copyright as well. This means that you cannot: perform a piece of music still under copyright in public (even in a free performance) without seeking the rights holder's permission or play a recording of a copyrighted performance without seeking the rights holder's permission. ACE lists copyrighted works and performances and gives addresses of publishers in order to start the permissions process. Not sure of how long a work or performance is protected by copyright? Read When works pass into the public domain, by Laura Gassaway,University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

https://www.naxos.com/Glossary/ABC
From: Naxos Rights International Ltd. Accelerando to xylophone; short, useful definitions. Better for novices than for advanced readers.

https://guides.loc.gov/music-theater-dance-illustrated-guide
This is the site of the Library of Congress Special Collections in music, a resource for musical scholarship unmatched anywhere in the world. "These unique bodies of materials are extraordinarily vast and diverse, yet very much interrelated. They include some of the greatest treasures of the Music Division and, indeed, of the Library of Congress."

https://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
Created and maintained by Dr. Brian Blood, this website is a trove of information about music theory, from the basics to more complex concepts.

https://www.teoria.com/
From: Author Jose Rodriguez Alvira In English and Spanish, a practical guide to music theory. Includes Java-based exercises, software, etc.

https://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/nmapub_srch.php?l=2
"The purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use."

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Emkduggan/neh.html
The California Sheet Music Collection is a virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs. This project was funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. The archive of digitized images is maintained by the Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley.

https://cantusdatabase.org/
From: Univ. of Western Ontario (Canada) "CANTUS is a database that assembles indices of the Latin ecclesiastical chants found in early manuscript and printed sources for the liturgical Office, such as antiphoners and breviaries...The manuscript inventories are available at no cost. They are fully searchable by textual incipit, keywords, saints’ names or liturgical occasion, and “chant identification numbers” (drawn from standard chant research resources)."

https://choralnet.org/
ChoralNet provides a central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community. It operates mailing lists, newsgroup, and online bulletin boards, as well as links to other choral communities and organizations worldwide, both electronic and live, and over 2,000 choir websites. ChoralNet's extensive resources and links include reference materials, rehearsal tips, choral accessories and technology, and specialized sections for Church Music and choirs in educational institutions. ChoralNet's Repertoire database includes almost 50,000 titles, including both old masters and present-day composers, along with publication information and links to MIDI files, score images, composer biographies, and translations. In addition, there are hundreds of user-submitted recommendations for specific voicings, instrumentation, and concert themes, plus lists of pieces performed at recent conventions.

https://alumni.jhu.edu/knowledgenet/musicresources
Largest site of free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information; actively being updated every day.

https://www.gsarchive.net/
From: Jim Farron, Curator [site hosted at Boise State Univ.] Searchable libretti of all G operas, information on the D'Oyly Carte Company, original performers, MPEG and MIDI files, synopses, etc.

https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Formed by a merger of the International Music Database Project and the Petrucci Music Library, the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) provides access to more than 200,000 music scores, both in the public domain and with approval of participating composers.

https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
"The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain."

https://www.lieder.net/
From: Created and maintained by Emily Ezust The Lied and Song Texts Page is an archive of Art song and Lieder texts in approximately 20 languages. May be searched by composer, poet, titles, and first lines. Many have English translations.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/
(From: Library of Congress) Comprised of two separate collections, this project, which is part of the American Memory Project, is a collection of over 60,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright from 1820-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular vocal music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and some music for band and orchestra.

https://musopen.org/
From website: "A non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions."

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/
Provides free sheet music in the public domain covering classical works from Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel and more. As of Feb. 2014, over 1800 pieces of music are available.

https://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
A project of a group of libraries to create an open collection of digitized sheet music; participants include: Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, Duke University, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA and University of Maine.

https://digitalcollections.syr.edu/collections
From website: "The Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection provides online access to digital audio files of cylinders in the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. Belfer's cylinder collection includes over 22,000 cylinders, 12,000 of which are unique titles."

https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
From website: "The UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online. On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound."

https://www.loc.gov/audio/
Collections of sound recordings spanning the American culture, from African American Blues and Gospel, to Civil War, to Dustbowl, to Hispanic music and more!

https://archive.org/details/etree
From the website: "Welcome to Internet Archive's Live Music library. etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly non-commercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits. This collection is maintained by the etree.org community."

https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-jukebox/about-this-collection/
From the website: "The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives."