Music Internet Resources

Here you will find pointers to resources in music. Recommendations for additions or amendments to this section should be sent by e-mail to  Julie Crawley

• Library Catalogues
• Searching the Internet
• UK Gateways to Music Resources on the Web
• Other General Resources
• American Music
• Composer WWW pages
• Dissertation Indexes
• Early Music
• Musical Instruments
• Song Lyrics
• Other Sites of Interest
• Musical Associations
• Other Music Research Bodies
• E-mail Discussion Lists on Music

Library Catalogues

• UK OPACs in Higher Education - arranged by region.  Access is via the NISS Information Gateway.
• COPAC - Union catalogue of the largest university and research libraries in the UK and Ireland
• National and Major Libraries of the World
• Public Internet Access UK Public Library websites and catalogues.
• Public Libraries in Europe: UNESCO libraries portal

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Searching the Internet

• Google Recommended for obscure music information.
• Lycos Another major search index
• WebCrawler Another popular index
• Ask.com Enter a question, word or phrase.
• The Search Beat Intended rival to Yahoo, as a general purpose web directory.
• Dogpile A multi-engine search tool, which submits searches across a range of well-known search engines.

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UK Gateways to Music Resources on the Web

• The BBC web site including Radio 3 CD Review
• British Library including BL Manuscripts Catalogue and BL Sound Archive Catalogue
• British Music Information Centre
• BUBL list of music resources
• Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
• Intute. Websites selected by subject specialists in the HE community. Link to Arts and Humanties -> Music and the Performing Arts
• Tutorial for the Performing Arts

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Other General Resources

• University College Cork: Web resources for study and research in music Last modified 5/12/2003.
• Duke University Classical Music Resources
• New York Public Library Performing Arts Music Division Selected music resources on the Internet.
• Yahoo Guide to Classical Music
• Internet resources for musicians and music teachers

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American Music

• Society for American Music, formerly known as The Sonneck Society for American Music.
• Chicago Jazz Archive including list of Jazz/Blues Collections in the USA and around the World.
• Library of Congress: Music for the Nation Digitized American Sheet Music Collection.
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of digitized Sheet Music at John Hopkins University.
• Historic American Sheet Music at Duke University.
• California Sheet Music 1852-1900 University of California, Berkeley.
• Index of Native American Music Resources on the internet

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Composer WWW Pages

• Directory of Composers WWW sites Go to 'Composer Homepages' classified by period.
• Bach Bibliography
• Beethoven Bibliography Database. The database included 5,700 records for books, articles, and scores by October 1995. In addition to author, title and subject searches you can search for genres, scores, RISM locations and standard number.
• Glenn Gould Archive Web site produced by the National Library of Canada.
• Richard Wagner
• The Gaylord Music Library Necrology Birth/death dates of composers, performers and others related to the musical arts.

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Dissertation Indexes

• Index to Theses submitted to higher education institutions in Great Britain & Ireland
• Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
• OpenThesis
• See also Dissertation Abstracts via subscription.

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Early Music

• Early Music FAQ Frequently Asked Questions.
• RISM - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. A worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times to ca.1825.
• Early English Musick, 1385-1714 Information on composers known primarily from the Old Hall Manuscript to those from the late baroque.

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Musical Instruments

• The Bate Collection Collection of Musical Instruments
• Historical Musical Instruments at Edinburgh University
• Information on Musical Instruments via the Yahoo directory.

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Song Lyrics/Libretti

• The Lied and Art Song Texts page Original-language texts of lieder and other art songs in the public-domain.
• Digital Tradition Words and music for thousands of folksongs.

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Other Sites of Interest

• APOLLO the Royal Academy of Music's repository of digital images containing thousands of letters by and to musicians, portraits, instruments, digitised pages of early printed music etc.
• Arts Festivals The website of the British Arts Festivals Association
• The Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Catalogue and Image database
• British Choirs on the Web
• Cantus - a database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant. Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources.
• The MLA Guide on Copyright for Music Librarians  Up-to-date information on U.S. copyright (including a link to the full text of the U.S. Copyright Law). Also links to related internet sites.
• Film Music Includes CD recommendations for soundtracks from current and older movies.
• Soundtracknet The art of Film and Television music. Includes articles and interviews.
• Gramofile on the Web Gramofile is up-dated monthly, the listing of reviewed discs being three months in arrears of the published magazine. From the Gramophone website follow the link to register onto the Gramofile site.
• Indiana University's List of Music Journals Online. Last updated 9/7/2003
• The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
• Italian Music Home Page
• Jewish Music For anyone starting research in Jewish music.
• Music and railways An amazing, well annotated list of music from the 1820s to 1990s.
• Plymouth Song Index - Direct link to the catalogue of song collections held at Plymouth Music Library.
• UK chart listings on Yahoo- Information on the popular music industry. Includes UK chart listings.
• Select list of modern music periodicals - pop and jazz held in the British Library Newspaper Library in Colindale.

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Music Associations

• IAML(UK & Irl) Home Page The UK & Irl Branch of The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives & Documentation Centres.
• The IAML web site
• MLA The Music Library Association (USA).
• IAMIC The International Association of Music Information Centres.
• AMS The American Musicological Society.
• SEM The Society of Ethnomusicology.
• IASPM - The International Assocation for the Study of Popular Music.
• Scholarly Societies in Music Links to many other music societies.

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Other Music Research Bodies

• Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale UK
• RISM Central Editorial Office - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales.
• RISM-UK

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E-Mail Discussion Lists on Music

• List of Academic Music email lists via JISCmail gives information on the purpose of each list and details of how to join.

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Suggestions for additional links to:  Julie Crawley

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