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Grove Music Online - http://www.grovemusic.com
The mothership of musical scholarship offers links to nearly 50,000 articles, images and sound files from 6,000 contributors. Access by paid subscription, free trials and reduced rates available for libraries and schools. |
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Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities - http://www.ccarh.org/
Stanford University project founded in 1984 offers free public access to large databases and online tools for music research and scholarship. Includes printable scores, voice-leading checkers, and scores and MIDI files for koto and tabla. |
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Indiana University School of Music: Worldwide Internet Music Resources - http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Categorized links to musicians and ensembles, composers, research sources by musical topic, the business of music, and performance-related subjects including competitions, festivals and auditions, with search and site map. |
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Themefinder - http://www.themefinder.org
Search by note names, intervals, or solfege to see matching classical themes or folk melodies in musical notation. From the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University. |
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Music Player Network - http://www.musicplayer.com
Portal with artist interviews, news, equipment reviews, and forums. |
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Glossary - http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/glossary/glossary.html
Concise definitions of musical terms including form and theory, composers, instruments and historical eras, with RAM audio examples and purchase links. From Essentials of Music, online companion to the Essential Classics series of books published by W. W. Norton. |
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Musician Biographies - http://www.musicianguide.com/
Thousands of authoritative articles, many with discography, bibliography, and awards. In two alphabetized lists, individuals and bands or groups. |
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Computer Music bibliography - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/midi/bibliography/preamble.html
Large plain text annotated list of publications on MIDI, synthesis, and computer music, with links to music and artificial intelligence, maintained by Piet van Oostrum. |
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Who Does That Song - http://www.whodoesthatsong.com
Find artists by song title or titles by artist, cross-referencing artists who have changed names or joined different groups. |
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Solo Performer - http://www.soloperformer.com/
Veteran singer-songwriter Steve Rapson of Quincy, Massachusetts offers extensive self-help articles on practical aspects of being a working musician, including legal and music business issues. |
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Glossary for Music Bibliography - http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/2352
Definitions of terms used in music bibliography, both English and German, from the Arthur Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, US. |
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Evolutionary Music Bibliography - http://www.it.rit.edu/~jab/EvoMusic/EvoMusBib.html
Companion to 2007 book discussing applications of evolutionary computation to music, by computer music professor Eduardo Reck Miranda of Plymouth, UK, and information technology professor (and trumpeter) Al Biles of Rochester, New York, US. |
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Music Bibliography - http://members.aol.com/dmarko1/brahms/bibliography.htm
Exhaustive text list of books on writing film scores as well as subjects such as composition, harmony and counterpoint, with links to sites on classical composition and composing for films. Maintained by Dimitrios Markatos. |
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SongTrellis - http://www.songtrellis.com/
Collaborative site offering chord changes to more than a thousand tunes as submitted by contributors, along with chat forums and FAQs. |
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Online Tuning Fork - http://www.onlinetuningfork.com/
Click to hear sustained pitches including C, E, and concert A 440mHZ. With links to similar sites. |
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Rhythm and Meter, A Bibliographic Glossary - http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rhythm/
Links to dozens of scholarly books and articles with glossary of terms, accepting user contributions. Created by graduate students at Indiana University in 1996. |
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Music Bibliography - http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/music/inetmus/#INDEX
Links to research materials, musical societies, scholarly journals, and various uncategorized sites annotated and maintained by Professor Bruce C. McIntyre of the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College (CUNY). |
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Music-Atlas - http://www.music-atlas.com
Portal with artist and band biographies, polls, top ten lists and musician jokes. |
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American Hit Network - http://www.americanhitnetwork.com
Reviews, release dates, music news, concert dates and reviews, music history, games and web radio. |
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Web Music Database - http://www.webmusicdb.com/
Collaborative user-submitted database of cross-referenced artists, albums, tracks, and sound files. |
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Shavano Music Online - http://www.colomar.com/Shavano
Self-help articles about band equipment, lighting systems, speakers, equalization, and business including contracts. Free submissions for bands seeking musicians and vice versa. |
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Hidden Songs.com - http://hiddensongs.com/
Lists hidden and unlisted tracks found on albums and CDs, accepting submissions from site users. |
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Auralgasms - http://www.auralgasms.com/
Biographies, discographies, sound samples, tour dates and user comments focusing on new artists. |
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A2Gmusic.com - http://a2gmusic.com
Resources, tips, news, classifieds, forums and music related databases. Includes information about copyrights, trademarks, marketing and locating a record label. |
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Music Bibliography at IUP - http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/musiclib/MusBib/MusicBib_home.htm
Course syllabus and brief articles for students of Carl Rahkonen at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with links to a dozen significant music libraries and online archives. |