Music research guide
Contents:
- Music databases
- Books, music scores, & sound recordings
- Websites
- Choral & vocal music
- Compact disc reviews
- Ethnomusicology
- Jazz
- Music education
- Music history & musicology
- Opera
- Organizations & associations
- Reference tools
- St. Paul/Minneapolis music scene
Song indexes - Women in music
- Indexes to music-related websites
See also the St. Kate's Music Department home page.
Books, music scores, & sound recordings
Search CLICnet, our online catalog
Find Sound Recordings
An Introduction to Uniform Titles for Music
Websites
Choral & vocal music
- American Choral Directors Association
- ChoralNet
- From the International Federation for Choral Music
- The Lied and Song Texts Page
- An archive of public-domain texts of art songs. Includes some translations of texts.
Recordings
- allmusic (AMG All-Music Guide)
- Biographies, reviews, recording credits, and essays on classical and popular music
- Gramophone: The Classical Music Website
- Live Music Archive
- Provides recordings high-quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution.
Ethnomusicology
- Africa
- Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University
- The African Music Encyclopedia
- Southeast Asia
- American Gamelan Institute
- Bali & Beyond
- Latin America
- Latin American Music Center at Indiana University
Jazz
- The Red Hot Jazz Archive
- A history of jazz before 1930, with streaming audio
- WNUR-FM JazzWeb
- Satchmo.net
- The official site of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives
Music education
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- K-12 Resources for Music Educators
- MENC (Music Educators National Conference)
Organization of American Kodály Educators - Technology Institute for Music Educators
Music history & musicology
- American Memory Collections: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress
- American Music Resource
- Contains bibliographies, lists, Internet links and text files covering all styles of American music
- American Musicological Society
- Classical Net
- Provides information about composers and their works, a classical CD buying guide, bibliographies, sound recording reviews, and more.
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at UC-Santa Barbara
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine
- This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from a collection of 78 RPM discs.
- Golden Pages for Musicologists
- Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection at Johns Hopkins University
- The Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia: Music, Theater and Dance
- A performing arts digital library, formerly known as "I Hear America Singing," featuring scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials at the Library of Congress
- Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digital Mozart Edition
- The musical text and the critical commentary of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausga made freely available to the public for personal study and for educational and classroom use by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum
Opera
- Aria Database
- Provides basic information about more than 1,200 operatic arias, including voice range, synopsis, translations, and MIDI files.
- Operabase
- The Opera Glass
- An opera information server, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, and pictures.
- Operissimo Concertissimo
- A searchable database of operas, performers, composers, and opera houses
Organizations & associations
- American Choral Directors Association
- American Federation of Musicians
- American Musicological Society
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers)
- BMI
- BMI is a music performing rights organization representing more than 100,000 songwriters and composers and 50,000 music publishers with a repertoire of over 2,500,000 works. Includes a song title database and information about music business.
- International Choral Federation
- Music Educators National Conference
- Music Library Association
- Music Publishers Association
- Includes a directory of music publishers and information about copyright
- Organization of American Kodaly Educators
- Society for Ethnomusicology
Reference tools
- Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
- Copyright for Music Librarians from the Music Library Association
- Music Necrology File at Washington University in St. Louis
- Lists death dates and bibliographical references to obituaries for people of interest in music who have died since about 1991
Music in Minneapolis & St. Paul
- American Composers Forum (formerly the Minnesota Composers Forum)
- Chamber Music Society of Minnesota
- Dale Warland Singers
Irish Music and Dance Association - Minnesota Orchestra
- The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
- Pepper of Minneapolis
- The division of J.W. Pepper, music distributors, located in Hopkins
- Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association
- The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
- The Schubert Club
- Twin Cities Jazz Society
Song Indexes
Women in music
- Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930
- Includes more than 5,000 titles
- International Alliance for Women in Music
- Society of Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women
- Women Composers and Women's Music list at Indiana University Music Library
Indexes to music-related websites
- Internet Public Library: Music
- Online Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources from the IU Music Library
- Sibelius Academy
- WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists from the American Musicological Society
- Yahoo