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African American Song
Digital online collection of over 16,000 historical music tracks covering a variety of genres.
American Song
Digital online collection of American music covering genres such as country, folk, blues, bluegrass, Native American, old time, gospel, and more.
Classical Music Library
Digital online collection of classical music, including opera, chamber, orchestra, vocal & choral, and more.
Naxos Music Library
Includes a variety of genres including classical, jazz, world/folk, and new age, with liner notes and background information.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Digital online collection of music from many North American and global traditions. Also includes spoken word, poetry, prose, and sound effects.
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Guides to Evaluating the Web
Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
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General Guides
All Music Guide
The All Music Guide has information on thousands of recordings covering all music styles, including classical, and includes succinct reviews for these CDs (or LPs). The database is searchable by performer, album title, and song title, and it includes biographies of musicians and singers. Additional information, such as brief essays on music genres and musical instruments, is available with free registration to the site.
Librarians' Internet Index : Music
This guide features links to music Web sites selected by librarians for their quality and reliability. It is subdivided into nearly 50 subcategories ranging in topics from national anthems to children's songs to hip-hop to protest songs to zydeco.
Internet Resources in Music
Although some of the links are specific to the University of California, Santa Barbara, this is an excellent site for general use. Links to hundreds of music Web sites are divided into 20 categories such as Composers, Computer Music, Folk, Traditional, and Non-Western Musics, Instruments, Music Theory, Sheet Music, and Vocal Music/Opera.
Music on the Internet
Links to nearly 150 music Web sites are available at this popular service. The Web sites are listed in alphabetical order and include Web sites on classical music composers, specific music styles, individual performers, and song lyrics.
Oxford Music Online
Music reference sources including Grove Music Online, an encyclopedia covering all aspects of music worldwide.
University of Washington, Music Library - Online Music Resources
Although some of the links are specific to the University of Washington or the state of Washington, this is an excellent site for general use. Links to hundred of music Web sites are divided into over 50 categories, including chamber music, ethnomusicology, music copyright, music dictionaries, vocal and choral music, popular music, and women in music.
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
An American Musicological Society guide to Web sites relevant to musicologists and almost anyone interested in music. Sites are listed in 32 wide-ranging categories such as Music and Film, Musicology Blogs, Academic Job Listings, and Jazz.
Topics in Music
Awards
- Grammy Awards
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the NARAS, put together this Web site that includes a great deal of information about the Grammy Awards, including a searchable database so you can find out who won what Grammy Award in what year!
Blues
- Blue Highway
This Web site is divided into sections containing essays on topics, information on major performers, blues news, and additional links which direct the user to Web pages about specific blues artists, festivals, blues societies, record labels, and more.
Classical
- Andante
Partially "for members only," partially for everyone, this site calls itself "a new type of classical music venture. Its aim is to document and preserve the world's recorded classical music heritage...." It features a variety of informational and educational resources, live and recorded performances, professional services, and a magazine section. Daily headlines and news events in the concert music scene are also covered.
- Classical Net
A fine site divided into sections such as Basic Repertoire List, Recommended Classical CDs, Composer's Works & Data, Reviews & Articles, Books & Scores, and other. Of special note is the Composer Index, with information on over 350 classical composers, including biographies, discographies, and more.
- Classical Scores Library
A growing database of classical music scores from both in-copyright sources and the public domain. Time periods span the Renaissance to the present. Includes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and more. Genres covered include symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos.
Country
- CMT.com
A glitzy Web site covering all aspects of country music, with a very good section on country music artists. This section includes information about current stars as well as performers of the past, and contains biographies, discographies, awards, news items, and more.
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
Heavy Metal
- BNR Metal Pages
This site's primary function is to offer a list of heavy metal bands, with a brief band biography, current and former band members' names, and discography. There are also links to many heavy metal Web pages and band Web pages.
Hip-Hop & Rap
- Davey D's Hip-Hop Corner
This site contains many links to hip-hop sites, as well as sections on hip-hop articles, essays on the genre and its history, current news, news archives, record reviews, charts, and more.
- Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive-An extensive database of lyrics to hip-hop songs, this archive features useful indexes by artist and compilation CD titles, and a section with newly-added lyrics.
- Rap Dictionary
This site features an extensive dictionary of rap music terms.
Jazz & Big Bands
- Big Bands Database Plus
Originally a card file of information created in the early 1980s, this database became part of the World Wide Web in 1995. Its purpose "is to offer an online archive for research and for fans of both the great [big] bands, and the Golden Era of...American Popular Song." It includes information on big bands of the swing era (sometimes including relevant photographs) from the United States, Canada, Britain, and Europe, features lists of popular songwriters and singers of the 1930s - 1950s, and includes essays on topics such as western swing and territory bands. The entire database is key word searchable.
- A Great Day in Harlem
The subtitle says "explore jazz history through one photograph." This site posts the legendary August 1958 photograph by Art Kane, taken in Harlem, New York, which features 57 famous jazz musicians and singers. You can click on the photo, or browse by timeline, artist, instrument, or style, and find more information about the performers pictured.
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
Subtitled "A History of Jazz Before 1930," this Web site includes 20 essays on pre-1930 jazz topics, biographies of over 150 important jazz performers of the era, and a list of hundreds of early jazz bands, including a brief description of each group and links to sound files so you can hear entire songs by the bands from 1910s to 1930s recordings.
Lyrics & Sheet Music
- Classical Scores Library
A growing database of classical music scores from both in-copyright sources and the public domain. Time periods span the Renaissance to the present. Includes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and more. Genres covered include symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos.
- Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
This Web site is available through the Library of Congress, which says "The Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music." Minstrel songs, protest songs, political songs, spirituals, Tin Pan Alley songs, and Civil War songs and music are some of the categories represented. The database is searchable by keyword, and there are browsable subject and name indexes.
- IPA Source
A library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
One of the Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University, the Levy Collection 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.
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
The Music Division of the Library of Congress says this resource "consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra." The site features keyword search capability, and browsable indexes by author, subject, and song title.
Music Education
- K-12 Resources for Music Educators
This Web site offers a valuable list of sites arranged by category for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels. The sites are listed under these categories: band teachers, vocal/choral teachers, orchestra teachers, classroom music teachers, all music educators, commercial music resources, music research resources, etc. Regularly updated.
- Yahoo General Guide on Music Education
This subject category in the Yahoo search engine lists more than 20 specific sites that deal with this topic, plus over a dozen other subcategories covering topics such as "Courses and Lessons," "K-12 Curriculum Standards," and "The Suzuki Method."
Old-Time Music
- Old-Time Music
This Web site is maintained by a California fiddle player and graphic artist. It features an essay describing this rural/folk precursor of country music, and includes categories such as Old-Time Music News, and a directory of practicing old-time style musicians.
Rock
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The official page of this Cleveland, Ohio-based museum includes biographies of individuals and bands inducted into the Hall of Fame, information on featured exhibits, and a rock and roll timeline.
Government Resources
American Folklife Center
The American Folklife Center's mission is "to preserve and present American Folklife." It incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. When you click on "Index to Site Contents," you can browse the list of online collections, many of which deal with American folk and vernacular music.
Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room: Music Division
A click on "Search Music, Theater and Dance" will link to sources such as the Historical Digital Collections at the American Memory Web page.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
The Web page for this Smithsonian Center includes links to Smithsonian Folkways recordings and the Save Our Sounds project.
Local Resources
Blues Society of Western New York
This non-profit organization provides news about blues events, record releases, club scenes, and societies and festivals from a local to an international level.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Check here for concert schedules and announcements, subscription information, directories of musicians and staff, education and outreach programs, and more. Articles and reviews of current interest which appeared in the Buffalo News are displayed.
Buffalo Chamber Music Society
Besides current concert series information and season previews, this Web site offers a photo archive of great chamber music concerts in Buffalo since 1924, complete with an alphabetical list of titles performed, performers' names, and dates. In addition, program notes and artist biographies from the current season may be viewed.
Buffalo State College
State University of New York at Buffalo - Music Library
Web site of one of Western New York's best academic music libraries. Find music department history, names and dates of endowed chairs, lists of special collections such as music posters, as well as music library history. Search the catalog for printed music, literature about music, and audio media.
WNYMusic.com
This Web site includes a list of bands, artists, clubs and venues, record labels in Western New York, with links to Web pages if available. On its "Buffalo Broadcast Directory" link, you can find the "Buffalo Call Letter Meanings" page, which reveals what the call letters of local radio stations stand for.
Professional Organizations
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