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Americana

The American Memory Collection: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html American Folklife Center, the Library of Congress. Search by song text, audio titles, performers, archive of folksong.  

Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/perform/new.internet.resources.html

Blues Music

The Blues: http://www.thebluehighway.com/ The Blue Highway contains tributes to the blues greats, essays, and more. It also includes News, a Blues Mall (for choosing appropriate blues material), Recordings, Links to other blues sites, and a search engine.

Mudcat Café: http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html Mudcat Café is a discussion group devoted to lovers of blues and folk music.

Classical Music

Classical MIDI Archives: http://www.prs.net/midi.html Use this site to listen to your favorite classical piece composed by one of more than 716 composers. Selections are rated

Classical Music on the Net: http://www.classical.net This site includes reviews of more than 1000 CDs, 4800 files, and 2600 links to other classical web sites.

DW3 Classical Music Resources http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/ “The world’s most comprehensive collection of classical music links.”

General Information on Music

MLA Clearinghouse:  http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org. This clearinghouse prepared by the Music Library Association stores documents of interest to music librarians, including copyright, cataloging, technology, and reference.

Orchestra net: http://www.orchestranet.co.uk/ring.html This free linking service, provided by classical music web ring in the United Kingdom, connects to Global Music Network (gmn.com), which provides links to classical and jazz sites, news, downloads, and live musical performances on the Web.

Music History

Indiana University Music Library http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/   Indiana University School of Music link to worldwide internet music resources

Yahoo’s Music History http://d3.dir.dcx.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/history/. This site includes histories of instruments, genres, popular music, and more.

Smithsonian Institution Music Room: http://americanhistory.si.edu/music/index.htm 
This site offers information on musical programs at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, on its collections of instruments and much more. It also features special web pages devoted to the history and use of particular musical instruments. 

Music Instruction

Directory of Music User Guides for libraries: http://www.library.yale.edu/~segglstn/mugdir/ This site includes bibliographies, pathfinders, and many other tools for helping users navigate web resources.

Music Education: http://www.music.miami.edu:591/mess/about.html/  MESS, or Music
Education Search System, finds information on journals having to do with music education. 

 Jazz Music

Jazz images: http://www.hermanleonard.com Maintained by Herman Leonard This site offers access to more than 200 pages of jazz photographs taken since 1947.

Northwestern University’s WNUR Jazz Web:  http://www.nwu.edu/jazz/. This site includes excellent information on various aspects of jazz music, including its history, education, art, performances, and links to other jazz sites on the Web.

Music in the Media

Listen to music in the media: http://broadcast.yahoo.com/music/ This is Yahoo's link to various types of broadcasts. This includes links to musical broadcasts.

Music on Radio and Television: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/radio.html Indiana University Cook Music Library’s link to music resources in the media.

Musical Theater

Musicals 101:  http://www.Musicals101.com/  The cyber encyclopedia of musical theater, TV, and film.

Rock Music

MTV website: http://www.mtv.com/ Look at this site for news and updates on the activities of your favorite rock star.

Yahoo’s Music http://www.Yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music Daily news, reviews, charts, artist and album information for rock, jazz, urban and country music.

The Ultimate Band List: http://ubl.artistdirect.com/. This popular rock band site includes information on concerts, artists, contests, songs, record labels, and more.

Music Selection

Music Selection Resources on the Web: http://www.halcyon.com/aseaberg/. This site includes independent label listings, reviews, music publishers, library catalogs, jazz, classical, and world music reference sites on the Web.

Music Scores  

Online Music Scores: http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2273/scores.htm  
This site presents a collection of downloadable music scores in a variety of genres and formats. It includes iconographic sources, general collections facsimiles, collections of early music, and sources arranged according to individual composers.

Sheet Music

Historic American Sheet Music: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/  
This website, produced by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provides 3042 digitized images of American Sheet Music published between 1850 and 1920. 

Pepper Music Network:  http://www.jwpepper.com/ “The worlds largest sheet music retailer.”

Songs and Lyrics

Song Finding in Cyberspace. http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/art/musicSong.html. Produced by the Fine arts and music division of the Vancouver Public Library, this website provides access to songs, lyrics, citations, free sheet music guide, national anthems of the world, music in the public domain, and more.

Songfile.com: http://www.lyrics.ch/ This international lyrics server offers access to more than 62,00 lyrics from a database of more than 130,000 songs. 

University of Tennessee Song Index: http://www.lib.utk.edu/~music/songwizard/musicbrief.html This is a publicly available
database that provides access to citations for 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies owned by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Music Library. Search by title, composer, author of text, or language, song type, accompaniment. This also searches anthologies.

A Sampling of Special Interest Pages

Bach

The J.S. Bach homepage: http://www.jsbach.org/ This award-winning site contains information on Bach’s life and works, recordings, record reviews, portraits, and more.

Chant

Gregorian Chant homepage: http://www.music.princeton.edu:80/chant_html/ This page offers links to other web sites specializing in Gregorian Chant. Also included here is information on performance practice, medieval music theory, and upcoming conferences.

Instruments--Pianos

Piano 300: http://www.piano300.org  Celebrating three centuries of people and pianos. This page advertises the exhibition in the International Gallery, produced by the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution. The value of this page lies in its links to an enormous amount of information on pianos, piano music, and music, in general.

The Piano Page: http://www.ptg.org/. Produced by the Piano Technician’s Guild, this site focuses on information about pianos, including piano technology, images, information on purchasing pianos, and a virtual museum.  

Mozart

This fairly comprehensive site http://www.mozartproject.org/ is devoted to the "life, times, and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart." Its author, Steve Boerner, includes an extensive biography, a bibliography, a list of Mozart's compositions, arranged according to Koechel number, selected essays, and links to other Mozart sites.