Music Resources

General Music Resources

MSU Music Learning Center
Located in the Shearman Fine Arts Building, the Music Learning Center collects music scores, recordings on CD, and other music materials. The collection consists of approximately 3,000 scores and caters to music students and faculty.

Music Resources
Maintained by the Sibelius Academy in Finland, this is a comprehensive listing of music sites, covering composing, music education, music theory, jazz, blues, folk, opera, and rock.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
From the music library at the University of Indiana, a well-organized guide to music sites representing all genres.

Recording Industry Association of America
Includes current sales figures for the American music market, information on copyright, licensing, free speech, and piracy.

The SWLA Arts Council
The Arts Council provides a directory of local artists, upcoming events, and grant opportunities in Southwest Louisiana.

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Choral

ChoralNet
Links to choral music sites, including professional development, an online choral database, and more.

MUSICA: International Database of Choral Music
From the University of Strasbourg, a searchable index to choral music. Search by composer, lyricist, date, and more. (Actual scores are not available at this site.)

Classical

Bach Central Station
315 links to Bach information on the Internet.

Beethoven Bibliography Database
The Beethoven Bibliography Database is an exciting project that unites the continuing interest in the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven with the advantages of computer technology and the Internet. The Database is a fully-indexed bibliography of published (and selected unpublished) materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven. The goal of the project is to provide a tool that helps researchers identify Beethoven materials pertinent to their particular interests. The Database is still in its early stages, but it already contains over 15,000 records. Using the database, researchers retrieve lists of materials that may be found in their local libraries or requested on interlibrary loan. For some materials, the Beethoven Center may provide photocopies (see Requesting copies of materials). The database does not yet provide full text of articles or books.

Chopin Early Editions
The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center. Chopin Early Editions consist of digitized images of all scores in the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection. Users can search or browse Chopin Early Editions via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, and plate numbers.

Classical Composers Database
Short biographical information on over 800 composers. Some entries include links to other sites.

The Classical Music Navigator
Information on 444 classical composers, arranged in ways that help the user identify musical works with characteristics similar to his or her already-existing preferences.

Classical Net's Classical Music Links
Links to sites for specific instruments, festivals, music education, choral music, and much more. Check Classical Net's homepage for other interesting links.

DW3 Classical Music Resources
Describing itself as "The World's Most Comprehensive Collection of Classical Music Links", there are more than 1,800 non-commercial pages/sites in over a dozen languages arranged into categories such as composer homepages and Organizations and Centers for Scholarly Research.

The Mahler Archives
The Mahler Archives is an online database created and maintained by The Chicago Mahlerites and the Colorado MahlerFest to benefit the global Mahlerian community. The archives contain Mahlerian gems such as scholarly studies on the musicological aspects of Mahler's works, rare interviews with prominent Mahler experts, obscure historical facts, lectures given at various symposia, and interpretive discussion by various conductors.

The MozartForum Library
This site offers a varied selection of materials, including reviews of published and unpublished books, articles, and essays on Mozart and his world.

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Instruments

Accordion Links
A huge list of web sites including Classical, World Music, Cajun and Zydeco links.

Instrument Encyclopedia
General information about most common musical instruments, and a few uncommon ones.

Music Education

American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Homepage for the organization promoting Carl Orff's music education methods.

Kodaly Institute
Homepage for information about the noted music educator and the Institute's programs.

Music Education for Young Children
Includes sections on curricula and teaching, games, music development, music and the brain, and professional organizations.

Music School Address Book
Addresses and phone numbers of music schools and departments in universities across the U.S.

National Association for Music Education
Job listings, online publications, teacher guides, and information about the organization.

National Association of Schools of Music
Homepage of the accrediting organization.

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Music History

The Alan Lomax Database
The Alan Lomax Database is a multimedia catalog of the audio and video recordings and photographs made by Alan Lomax from 1946-1994, as well as of recordings made by few of his colleagues.

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Music
This site from the Iowa State University showcases a wide variety of medieval instruments, explaining their development and accompanied by pictures and audio samples.

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Music Journals and Magazines on the Internet

Billboard
Music Industry news and information.

Computer Music Journal (table of contents & abstracts only; scholarly)

Gramophone Online
The electronic arm of Gramophone magazine. Includes a daily international classical music news service, online features and competitions, and Gramofile, an online database of CD reviews stretching back to 1983 and which is the world's largest archive of record reviews.

Journal of New Music Research (table of contents & abstracts only; scholarly)

Music and Vision (daily internet music magazine)

Offbeat (New Orleans and Louisiana Music)

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Music Research Sites

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Online Catalog (Theodore)
This catalog lists over 15,000 items, including corporate records, photographs, moving images, oral histories, radio broadcasts, non-commercial sound recordings, and various special collections relating to the CSO.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology -- Online
Index to dissertations in musicology, searchable by author or keyword. The full text of the dissertations is not available at this site, but may be ordered. See also Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music.

I Hear America Singing
I Hear America Singing integrates the collections, commissions and live concerts of the Library of Congress, allowing users to discover the Library's music and performing-arts collections through a single gateway on the Web. The site brings together thousands of materials digitized from the Library's vast collections of sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories, along with essays by Library staff and other leading researchers in the performing arts. It showcases the world-renowned tradition of live performing arts at the Library by featuring cybercasts of new concerts and offering a wide selection of historic concerts from the archives, including premieres of important works of contemporary classical music.

Internet Resources for Music Scholars
Highly selective group of music links from the Harvard Music Library.

Music Information Retrieval Bibliographies
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, approximately 320 research papers in the field of Music Information Retrieval.

Music Research & Music Theory
From the Sibelius Academy, a listing of music research websites.

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Opera

Opera Glass
Including composers, performers, synopses, and opera companies.

Operabase
This site has data on 400 operahouses and a powerful search engine for performances and artists.

Popular

All Music Guide
Guide to artists, albums, and styles for rock and popular music.

Funk 45
FUNK45.com contains over 2000 audio clips of rare funk and soul 45 rpm singles recorded in the late 60s and early 70s with regular contributions from the world's top funk DJs and collectors. The music is often grittier than well known artists such as James Brown and has been ignored by the music industry for over 30 years.

Red Hot Jazz Archive
Biographies, discographies, bibliographies, and band information, with a focus on early jazz history.

The Ultimate Band List
Guide to artists and bands in folk, rock, and popular music.

Sheet music collections

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885
From the Library of Congress, an enormous digitized collection of American popular music; mostly piano/vocal scores.

Sheet Music Collections
From Duke University, a catch-all list of where to find sheet music on the Internet.

Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
From Mississippi State University, a large database of sheet music featuring ragtime, blues, show tunes, and minstrel music.

Indiana University Sheet Music Digital Library
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.

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World Music

Canadian Music Periodical Index
Searchable index of major Canadian music journals (Citations only, no full text).

Ceolas
Page of Celtic music links.

Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music
Created by the University of Washington Music Library, this gateway site has sections devoted to organizations, institutions and archives; bibliography, periodicals, and online publications; recordings; and sites by geographical interest.

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For further information or to suggest a link, please contact
Pati Threatt at 337-475-5731.

This page created July 8, 1997.
This page last updated September 03, 2009.