Music

The African Diaspora Music Project was founded as a research tool to help singers find art songs for performance. Includes recordings, perusal scores, instrumental and chamber music, and curated lists by trusted orchestral conductors.

The Global Music Centre is one of Finland’s musical institutions. Its key task is to collect, record and distribute information about musical cultures from around the world.

The latest international news, CD and concert reviews, articles, and many resources (in the form of a wiki) for music fans, industry professionals and researchers. Our definition of World Music includes traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from the entire globe, as well as cross-cultural fusions and hybrids.

Collection of musical and spoken recordings (nearly 42,000 tracks) dealing with all aspects of Jewish life.

"Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and...currently supported by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation", DIAMM is "a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts.

"Our central Database includes 1,300 entries covering 2,400 court opinions (including over 30,000 pieces of data) spanning almost 200 years, fully summarized and searchable by numerous variables, featuring nearly every artist you'll think of (many you won't), covering copyrights and contracts, trusts, torts and more."

A British Library project from Royal Holloway, University of London Library, with more than 300 of the world's earliest surviving volumes of printed music in digitized form.

An Oberlin College Libraries and Sing Out! Collaboration. "An index to traditional folk songs of the world with an emphasis on English-language songs. Each entry includes the song title, first line of chorus, first line of verse, and full bibliographic information on the source. The index contains over 62,000 entries, and, to date indexes over 2,400 anthologies."

Global Jukebox presents a variety of audio, visual, and written materials created by and around renowned ethnomusicologist Alax Lomax.

"A collaboration between Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music and the University Libraries", "The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas."

An amazing collection from Duke University Libraries that "provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces [of sheet music]...published in the United States between 1850 and 1920."

This archive includes descriptions of Cage's works, as well as links to records for his physical manuscripts and published works.

This collection includes "more than 900 manuscripts containing approximately 42,000 pages [which] have been digitized and described. These include works by J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert, and Schumann, among many others."

New Music USA is the result of a merger between the American Music Center and Meet the Composer. It is a portal to invaluable resources intended for contemporary musicians, composers and performers, as well as their audiences.

"The purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use."

This website has news and reviews, performers and artists, opera houses, recordings and web resources, plus booking details, interactive maps, search tools and timelines.

The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music. It provides cross collection searching to 22 sheet music collections and a total of 226,914 items.

Extensive collection of sheet music in the public domain.

Encyclopedia for music resources from the Library of Congress. This guide include sheet music, recordings, Web exhibits, photographs and more.

American Choral Music, a collaboration of the the Library of Congress and the American Choral Directors Association, provides access to significant choral music in the public domain by the leading American composers of the time.

The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship.

Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress

Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.

The premier music publication provides music news, reviews, articles, and more.

This program from National Public Radio features new music from all genres.

This website has music news, politics, reviews, photos, videos, interviews and more.

Public Domain Music Scores

The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is an extraordinary collection of 140 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions, which were donated to the school in February 2006 by Juilliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner.

Part of the Harvard University Library Virtual Collection

University of Rochester

Digitized manuscript musical scores from the University of Washington's Music Library’s Rare Book Collection

Provides today's drummers with information on important performers from the beginnings of drum-set playing to the present, along with video and audio recordings of performances and instructional materials. Not an academic resource, geared toward amateur and professional drummers.

Holding over 2,500 historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world. The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments is one of the largest accumulations of such artifacts housed in a North American university.