Music research
1. General music reference works online Metasites General sources 2. Magazines 3. Composers 4. Style periods Old music Classical and romantic music Contemporary music 5. Genres Songs Opera Choir HaFaBra Jazz Ethnomusicology 6. Countries 7. Instruments 8. Music education1. General music reference works online
Metasites
Sites that link to other sites immediately on certain musical topics.
Musical biographical resources on the Web References to biographical sites
Internet Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University Ideal starting point for music research
Music Resources from Sibelius Academy Helsinki 18 categories
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature - Jacobs School of Music (Indiana University) PhDs and links to research sites
Eric Charry's homepage Practical research site
American Musicological Society - Sites of Interest to Musicologists
General sources
Oxford Music Online Contains the (in some cases updated) texts ofThe New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2006).
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection This multidisciplinary database includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, A Dictionary of Opera Characters, The Grove Book of Opera Singers, The Grove Book of Operas and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera.
2. Magazines
RILM: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale International bibliography of periodical publications about music, from 1967 to present.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals International bibliography of music magazines that appeared between 1800 and 1950.
RIPM - Online Archive of Music Periodicals full text International bibliography of music magazines that appeared between 1800 and 1950 with full text.
JSTOR Music Collection Full text access to 83 music magazines.
Web of Science, Current Contents These multidisciplinary databases provide a research platform that unlocks more than 23,000 magazines, such as Down Beat, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Analysis, Plainsong Medieval Music, Psychology of Music, Sacred Music.
Academic Search Elite This multidisciplinary database provides access to articles of more than 2,000 magazines. Examples of music magazines: Music Education Research, Music Perception, Music Theory Spectrum and Music Quarterly.
Directory of Open Access Journals This multidisciplinary database gives access to articles from more than 3,700 journals. Examples of music magazines: International Journal of Community Music, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Music Theory Online, Music TherapyToday and Zeitschrift für kritische Musikpädagogik.
Online magazines
American Bach Society Newsletter American Musicological Society Newsletter American Music Review Arts and Letters Daily Arts Journal Classical Music Review Culture kiosque European Journal of Musicology (includes also the archive of Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft) Gramophone Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland Neue Musikzeitung Opera news The Strad Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie
Title list electronic magazines AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
3. Composers
Studiecentre of Flemish Music MATRIX Composers Archipelago Flandres Belgian Contemporary Music Broadcast Music Library Componisten.net Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (Ircam) The Composer's Site International Alliance for Women in Music Anton Bruckner John Cage Jacques Champion de Chambonnières Carl Maria von Weber
4. Style periods
Old music
A Collection of Selected Lutheran Hymnals
La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database Modern scores and facsimiles of original manuscripts.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum A complete database about theory written during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The database is constantly evolving.
The British Library - Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Relics Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census
Computerized Mensural Music Editing Provides free access to new, qualitative old music scores, with Dufay, Josquin, Machaut, Palestrina and Tallis music. Each work is also substantiated with translations of the text and a concise analysis.
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library An extensive database of manuscripts, including music.
SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage
SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage
Musical Instruction and Musical Learning 1450-1650 Website with a very extensive bibliography about the music education during the Renaissance.
Here Of A Sunday Morning Website of the radio program Here Of A Sunday Morning, which specifically brings old music. The program's website contains information about old music, divided into different segments: English Music through 1635, The French Chanson, Social Music in Italy in the Renaissance, Monteverdi en Period V. The Italian Seicento (17th Century).
Arto Wikla's Music Page A site dedicated to old music with a lot of information about old instruments, with important links for baroque research.
The Düben Collection Database Catalogue The Düben Collection Database Catalogue is a digitized catalog with facsimiles from the Düben Collection, a major and important collection of musical manuscripts and prints from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Church Music Association of America With scores of religious music.
The Spanish Antiphoner Digital collection Gregorian music.
A Catalogue of Mass, Office, and Holy Week Music Printed in Italy, 1516-1770 An interesting digital source for 17th century music.
Classical and romantic music
The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies from San Jose State University Chopin Early Editions
Contemporary music
Ircam Multimedia Library Composition Today
5. Genres
Songs
The LiederNet Archive Online archive with a rich collection (almost 20,000) lyrics written by classical composers. The texts are in the original language, but also translated versions can be found. There are indexes on text poetry, composer, title words, first line and language.
The Leader in Lieder Contains the lyrics of almost 30,000 folk songs. There are many songs in MIDI format and sometimes some background information. As an "extra" you can find the lyrics of Christmas songs, drinking songs, sailors, wall songs and soldiers songs.
Opera
Aufnahmenarchiv italienischer Opern List of opera singers, born after 1850 with occasional references to YouTube or the home page of the artists in question.
OperaGlass By composer, a complete list of operas will be given, complete with date and place of premiere. Includes links to other pages with additional information about the opera.
Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum Digitized librettos
Opernführer List of opera with detailed information by composer
The aria-database Search possible on aria, composer, title or role
Metopera database Contains information about all the operas ever performed in The Metropolitan Opera New York and what reviews they received. Useful search function.
Musipedia A music database and search engine to find and identify melodies. Available for both classic and popular music.
Themefinder Contains thousands of melodies, which can be searched by pitch, interval, tessiture.
Operabase The public section of this site has a calendar-like character, especially aimed at shows that still have to take place. Contains further geographically ranked links to all opera houses in the world.
Koor
ChoralNet - American Choral Directors Association British Choirs on the Net Koor & Stem Musica International : The Virtual Choral Library
HaFaBra
Music for harmony, fanfare and brass band
Jazz
A History of Jazz before 1930 With several essays about the early jazz pioneers.
Jazz Research Portal University of North Texas libraries Meta-site with links to American and European sites about jazz, subdivided by composers, internet reviews, genres within jazz.
Smithsonian Jazz A portal for preserving and promoting jazz.
Ethnomusicology
The Society for Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology - World Music Meta site with a lot of links to e-magazines and other sites with world-class theme. Distributed in organizations, institutes, archives - bibliographies, periodicals, online publishing - record labels and distributors - sites for regional folk dance and folk dance music.
6. Countries
Africa
African Heritage in Classical Music
The African Music Encyclopedia
America
American Memory Site of The Library of Congress (with digitized scores of American music between 1820 and 1885).
Society for American Music Magazine about American music.
American Musicologican Society
Australa
Musicological Society of Australia
Canada
The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Meta site linking to other sites by topic: e.g. Music Education, Musical Genres, Operas / Settings, etc.
Germany
Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum
England
Cecilia: Find Music Collections in UK and Ireland Cecilia is an online guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in Great Britain and Ireland.
Concert life in 19th century London
Finland
France
Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique / musique
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
The Contemporary Music Center Ireland
Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
Cecilia: Find Music Collections in UK and Ireland Cecilia is an online guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in Great Britain and Ireland.
Israel
Israël Studies for Musicology Online
Italy
Music Art Technology - Federation of Italian Electroacoustic Music Centers
New-Zealand
Norway
Austria
Music Information Center Austria
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Sweden
Swedish Music Information Center
Switzerland
7. Instruments
General
Instruments web A website with Dutch texts about more than 200 contemporary and musical instruments.
A Guide to medieval and renaissance instruments An alphabetical overview of instruments from the "old" music; each with an English explanation, photographs, a sound file and literature references.
Mimo The aim of the MIMO project is to provide a single access for digital documentation and information about musical collections spread across several European museums. Will be completed.
The instruments of Celtic music
Wind instruments
Flute
Strings
Stringed Instrument Resource Guide - University of Oregon
Music Research Guide for String Instruments - University of Memphis
The 20th century violin concertante by Tobias Broeker A repertoire guide to the compositions for violin concertante written between 1894 and 2006.
Keyboard- en toggle instruments
Piano
Resources for pianists Meta site linking to other site with meaningful info for pianists.
Organ
Useful Organ Links Meta-site about organ (with links to downloadable scores and midi files, organizational websites, organ music organizers etc.)
Lute
Guitar
Classical guitar music in printed collections
Singing
Choir
Research Memorandum Series Magazine about choral music, which is digitally available.
8. Music education
National Association for Music Education Website giving very concrete tips in various articles on how to best educate music.