Music: Music Websites

The online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress comprises both manuscript and printed music, personal and business correspondence, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings...etc.

From William J. Zick, this Web site was launched in 2000 as a nonprofit educational venture promoting awareness of African Heritage in Classical Music. It includes links to info about Black History and composers and musicians of African descent. The site also sponsors a blog.

A comprehensive resource for jazz fans and musicians, this site includes lists of articles, columns, CD and book reviews, musician interviews, news releases, and links to other jazz-related resources on the Web.

Allmusic can be used to look up an out-of-print recording, to get our take on a new release, or simply to explore the world of music.

"An ad-supported UK-based site designed for anyone seeking live classical concerts and opera performances worldwide." A.J. Adam, Blinn College (CHOICE)

The Beethoven Gateway is a system of online databases developed by the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies to assist with discovery of resources on the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

This collection, hosted by the Library of Congress, contains full scans of over 25,000 pieces of music specifically about the American Civil War.

We have compiled information on important classical music composers and their works and arrayed these data in a fashion making it easier for the novice or casual listener to identify additional materials related to the work.

Geared primarily toward collector's of classical recordings, this site is divided into 7 sections: Basic Repertoire List, Classical CD Buying Guide, Recommended Classical CDs, Composer's Works and Data, Reviews and Articles.

An international database of bibliographic records for completed and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Contains over 14,000 records, including the corrected and updated contents of all earlier printed editions of DDM and supplements contributed from musicological center throughout the world, the database is fully searchable.

Music Dictionary Online's primary purpose is, in the case of non-English words and phrases, to offer translations and, more generally, and where appropriate, to offer explanations and comments about general (non-musical) words as well as specialist (i.e. musical, etc.) terms that might be found in musical scores, libretti, books on music, web sites, CD notes, concert programmes, etc.

To mark the bicentennial of the birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn on February 3, 2009, LC's Music Division, one of the world’s major repositories of primary source material related to the composer, is making available here on its Web site digital images of selected resources from its holdings.

From their description: "The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet."

a comprehensive index of 5,064 hymnals and 1,078,903 published hymns, with scores, media, and information from sources such as Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, hymnal handbooks, and experts in the field.

This site hosts approximately 5000 Irish music scores from roughly 1750 to the present, allowing free access to high quality scans of those in the public domain and metadata and ordering information for pieces published since 1923.

A digitized select portion of the 400,000+ items in the music division's Leonard Bernstein Collection, including correspondence, program scripts, photographs, etc..

A collection of high-quality scans of music manuscripts held at the Morgan Museum. Over 500 items are available, organized by composer, from Adolphe Adam to Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli!

An interactive learning resource with dictionaries, exercises, tutorials and articles to help with the study of music theory and aural skills.