WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
Dissertations
Academic Institutions
Music Libraries, Archives and Online Catalogues
Journals, Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
Music Publishing and Record Labels
Music Societies and Organizations
Opera and Song
Choirs
Ensembles
Sacred Music
Early Music
Instruments
Composers and Composition
Theory
Computer and Electronic Music
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AMS Bulletin Board listings (@Bowdoin, Google, and Yahoo)
Academic Jobs (UK)
Chronicle of Higher Education: Jobs (USA)
Eduserv: Jobs (UK)
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Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music (Royal Holloway)Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (index; not for ordering)
Order academic dissertations: Dissertations Express
Order academic dissertations: The British Library
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American Academy in RomeCenter for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music at UCSB
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Institute for Studies in American Music (ISAM)
International Centre for Research in Music Education at the University of Reading (UK)
Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory
Graduate programs in musicology
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Music Libraries, Archives and Online Catalogues
Try Worldcat.org from the AMS Web site: indexes hundreds of OCLC-participating libraries:
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (Stanford University)
Central and Eastern European Online Library
Chopin Bibliography Online
COPAC (Consolidated Catalogue of Libraries in the UK)
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Directory of Music User Guides for Libraries
International Association of Music Libraries
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
LIBWEB-Library WWW Services
MuseData: An Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores
MuSICA: The Music and Science Information Computer Archive
Music Library Association
Music Librarianship: is it for you?
Musical Borrowing
American Music Network (Society for American Music)
Archiv Frau und Musik
Arizona State University
Arnold Schoenberg Center
Bach Bibliography
Bagaduce Music Lending Library
Baroque Cantatas
Beethoven Bibliography Database at San Jose State University
La Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo del Universitá degli Studi di Bologna
British Library Catalogue On-Line
CAIRSS for Music database of music research literature
Classicat: free classical music on the internet
Columbia University Music Library
Concert Propgrammes Project Online Database
East Carolina University Music Library
Eastman School of Music (Sibley Music Library)
Fenway Libraries Online
Fondo Leoncavallo
Hofmeister XIX Project (Hofmeister Monatsberichte 1829-1900)
International Database of Choral Repertoire
IRCAM Multimedia Library
Latin Music Center (Indiana University)
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music Online
Library of Congress
Schuberline: Lieder online archive
Lilian Voudouri Music Library (Library of Greece)
Louisiana State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Music Library
Michigan State University- Vincent Voice Library
Middlebury College Music Library
Motet Database Catalog Online
Musedata (data repository)
Music Library Association (MLA) Clearing House
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Northwestern University
The Online Music Research Library of Denmark
Peabody Archives (Johns Hopkins University)
Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783
Princeton University Winham Computer Music Laboratory
Rice University Brown Fine Arts Library
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM-US Office (Cornell)
RISM--International
RISM--U.S. Office (Harvard)
RISM--U.S. at ThemeFinder
Scherman Library of the Mannes College of Music
Sibelius Academy Music Resources
Sibelius Museum
The Society for American Music
Themefinder (thematic search tool)
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
Tulane University-W.R. Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
University of California-Berkeley
University of California - Davis
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego Music Library
University of California - Santa Barbara Library (Music)
University of Louisville, Dwight Anderson Music Library
University of North Texas
University of North Texas: Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania: Otto E. Albrecht Music Library
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University-Anne Potter Wilson Music Library
Washington University in St. Louis, Gaylord Music Library
Weill Foundation for Music
Wellesley College
Yale Oral History American Music Project
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Journals, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Ad Parnassum Journal
The Absolute Sound
Billboard Online
Birgit Lotz Verlag
British Postgraduate Musicology
Central and Eastern European Online Library
Circuit : musiques contemporaines
The Choral Scholar (National Collegiate Choral Organization)
College Music Society
Computing in Musicology
Contemporary Music Review
Critical Musicology Journal
CultureKiosque
De Musica
Discourses in Music
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Early Music
Echo: A Music-Centered Journal
Electronic Musicological Review
Ethnomusicology Forum
European Music Journal
German National Discography
Gramophone Magazine
Integral
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Jazz Now Magazine
Jazz Perspectives
Journal of the American Musicological Society
Journal of Film Music
Journal of Music Theory
Journal of the Musicological Society of Australia: "Musicology Australia"
Journal of Musicology
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
Journal of the Royal Music Association
Leonardo Music Journal
MikroPolyphonie
Min-ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online
Music & Vision
Musica Humana (Korean Institute for Musicology)
Muziki
New Music Connoisseur
Neue Musikzeitung
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
Nota Bene(Canada’s first undergraduate journal of musicology)
Notitiae Cantus
The New Grove Dictionary of Music
Performance Practice Review
Perspectives of New Music
Philomusica on-line
Polish Music Journal
Popular Music and Society
Problemy Muzykal'noi Nauki/Music Scholarship (Russian Journal of Academic Studies)
Radical Musicology
Recercare, Journal for the study and practice of early music (FIMA: Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica)
Society for Music Theory Newsletter
Sonances
South African Journal of Musicology
Studia Musicologica (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Windplayer
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Music Publishing and Record Labels
101 Music Business ContractsAnybook International (Order any US Published Book)
A-R Editions, Inc.
Artaria Editions (Publishers of Rare 18th-century Repertoire)
ASCAP
BMI
Conference on Fair Use (CONFU)
Duma Music Inc. (music of Christopher Freyer, Leonid Hrabovsky, Ivan Karabyts, and Myroslav Skoryk)
Editor & Publisher Home Page
Eroica Classical Recording
European American Music Distributors
Ex Cathedra Records (early music label)
FreeHand
A Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians (MLA)
Katzmarek Publishing (Music in the Public Domain)
Latin American Art Song Alliance
Lim Editrice Srl
MLA: A Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians
Music Directory Canada
Music in the Public Domain
Music Publishers Association
National Information Services Corporation (Publishers of RIPM)
Naxos
Pendragon Press
Pepper Music Network
Repertoire and Opera Explorer (Miniature scores)
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
WO30 Records
Recordings & Educational Materials on Music & Women in Music
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Music Societies and Organizations
American Beethoven Society
American Brahms Society
American Choral Directors Association
American Composers Forum
American Council of Learned Societies
American Federation of Musicians
American Guild of English Handbell Ringers
American Guild of Organists
American Handel Society
American Institute of Musicology
American Institute for Verdi Studies
American Music Center
American Musical Instrument Society
American Musicological Society
American Pianists Association
American Recorder Society
Arpeggione Society, Japan
Association for Technology in Music Instruction
Canadian Music Centre
Catgut Acoustical Society
Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature (CHMTL)
College Music Society
Czech and Slovak Music Society
Deutsche Mozart-Gesellschaft
Early Music America
Europe Jazz Network
European Meetings in Ethnomusicology
Galpin Society for the Study of Musical Instruments
German Music Council
Guild of American Luthiers
American Handel Society
The Handel Institute
Joseph Haydn Institut
Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music
International Alliance for Women in Music
International Artwhistling Philharmonic Society
IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music)
International Association of Music Libraries
International Carl Maria von Weber Society
International Clarinet Association
International Double Reed Society
International Federation for Choral Music
International Hispanic Study Group
International Machaut Society
International Musicological Society (IMS)
Israel Musicological Society
Kurt Weill Foundation
Mozart Society of America (MSA)
Music Educators National Conference
Music Library Association
Music Theory Midwest
Musicological Society of Australia
National Association of Performing Arts Managers and Agents
North American British Music Studies Association
Percussive Arts Society
Oral History American Music (OHAM)
Othmar Schoeck Society, Zurich
Royal Musical Association (RMA)
Société Française de Musicologie
Society for American Music
Society for Ethnomusicology
Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Society for Music Theory
Society for Seventeenth Century Music
Society for Eighteenth Century Music
Society for the Preservation of Film Music
Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society
Turkish Musicology Platform
Viola da Gamba Society of America
Young Concerts Artists
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Lied and Song Text PageOpera Schedules Around the World
Opera Today
Operissimo-The Site for the Operaworld
Center for Italian Opera Studies
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International Database of Choral RepertoireAmerican Boychoir
The Cardinall's Musick
Dale Warland Singers
Furman Singers
Kantorei, The Singing Boys of Rockford
London Philharmonic Choir
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
Sacramento Master Singers
St. Olaf Choir of St. Olaf College
San Francisco Bach Choir
Singing City (Philadelphia)
Virginia Glee Club
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Anonymous 4Arraymusic (New Music Ensemble)
Bimbetta (Early Music Ensemble)
Boston Chamber Ensemble
Chicago Baroque Ensemble
Ciaramella
The Dallas Wind Symphony
La Donna Musicale
Duo 46 (guitar and violin)
Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto (20th-century music)
International Chamber Arts Festival Ensemble
Kronos Quartet
Early Music New York
The Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh
Renaissance Consort
Sirene Operntheatre, Vienna
The Rose Ensemble
The Texas Saxophone Quartet
The United States Naval Academy Band
University of Houston, Collegium Musicum
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American Guild of OrganistsThe Cantors Assembly
The Cyber Hymnal
International Database of Choral Repertoire
The Northeast Organist
The Wedding Music Information Source
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Bernard Sherman's Web PageCANTUS: Index to Divine Office Gregorian Chant
Early Music (journal)
Early Music America
Early Music FAQ (for rec.music.early and EARLYM-L)
Early Music Network
Early Music Periodicals: Past and Present (Indiana University)
Fourteenth Century Music Database
Gregorian Chant Home Page (Georgetown)
Gregorian Chant Home Page (Princeton)
Gregorian Chant Home Page (Classical Net Site)
Historic Brass Bibliography (1988-94)
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Medieval Music Collections
New York Early Music Foundation
Origin of Music
The Orlando Consort
Period Instrument Performance Ensembles (PIPE List)
Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh
Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census
Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520 (courtesy Rob Wegman, Princeton University
Renaissance Music Collections
Saggi Musicali Italiani: Texts on Italian Music Theory and Aesthetics
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (16th and 17th century Italian Music Treatises)
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (Database for Latin Music Theory)
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Banjo Home Page
Brass: The Historic Brass Society
The Crumhorn Home Page (Australia)
Dolmetsch Musical Instruments
Drum Instruction Database
Early Flutes (Simon Polak)
Early Wind Instruments
Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments
Flute: Baroque Flute Makers
Flute: Folkers & Powell's, Makers of Historical Flutes
Flute history research materials
GALI (On-line Guitar and Lute Magazine)
Handbells, Hand chimes
The Harpsichord Music Page
Historical American guitar music (Lucas Gonze)
Historical Keyboards
Historical Keyboard Instruments: Russell Collection (University of Edinburgh)
Historical HARP Society
Hurdy-gurdy: Alden Hackmann's Page
Lute Home Page
Lute Home Page (Arto Wikla)
The Lute Archives (Dartmouth)
The Lute and the Early Guitar (Kenneth Sparr)
Lute Society of America
Early Oboe (Gonzalo Ruiz's Page)
The Oud
Recorder and Early Music Society of Western Australia
The Recorder Home Page (Australia)
Recorder: Herb Wurtzel's FREE RECORDER MUSIC SCORE
America's Shrine to Music Museum
Ukelin Home Page
Viola da Gamba Bibliography (Univ. of North Carolina)
Violin: The American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers
Violin: violink.com
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American Music CenterMichael W. Balfe (1808-1870)
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Norbert Burgmuller (1810-1836)
Classical Composer Biographies
Classical Composers Picture Gallery
Hanns Eisler
Gems of Compositional Wisdom
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Handel Reference Database
Frederick Jacobi
Messiaen Project--Boston University
New York Women Composers
Pulitzer Prize in Music (American University)
Pulitzer Prize in Music (Columbia University)
R. Murray Schafer
Johann Theodor Roemhildt (1684-1756)
The Society of Swedish Composers
Songwriters, Composers & Lyricists Assoc.
Symbolic Composer for the Macintosh
Michael Tippett
Tommaso Traetta
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Society for Music Theory Home PageMusic Theory Online
Harmony Music List: Research
Indiana University School of Music, Music Theory Department
Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory
Music Cognition Resource Center
Music, Media and Design: A Music Scholar’s Guide to Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
MuSICA: The Music and Science Information Computer Archive
Society for Music Theory (SMT)
Society for Music Theory Email Conference (UC - Santa Barbara)
Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Traités français sur la musique
The Tonal Center
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AuricleBirmingham University Electro-acoustic Studio (BEAST)
Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH)
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition (CCMRC)
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Classical Midi Connection
Computer Music at LSI
Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music
NoTAM: Norwegian Network for Technology, Acoustics and Music
Sound Effects Library Search
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Artist-specific WWW sites (Indiana University)Beabliography (Bibliography on the Beatles and their Music)
Billboard - Various USA Charts
Charts & Ratings - Weekly world charts from various countries
Collective Sounds (Pop)
Finland Rave Info
Finnish Rock Bands\
Helsinki Club Info
IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music)
Jammin Reggae Archives
Progressive Rock Bibliography
Progressive Rock Music Archive
Reason to Rock: Rock Music as Art Form
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
RockData - Finnish Rock Music Scene
RockWeb
Songfacts
Tom Meros: The Cross Pollination of the Rock 'n Roll Universe
Yahoo: Entertainment: Music: Artists
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African American ArtistsBlues-L
Europe Jazz Network
Jazz am Rhein
Jazz Changes (Magazine of the International Association of Schools of Jazz)
Pori Jazz Festival 1995
The rec.music.bluenote (Jazz FAQs)
WNUR-FM Jazz Information Server
YAHOO:Entertainment:Music:Genres:Blues
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Ryan Raul Bañagale and Drew Massey: Amusicology: Musicology in 1,000 Words or Less
Roger Bourland
From Beyond the Stave (Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press musicology authors)
Avior Byron
Jonathan Bellman, Phil Ford:Dial 'M' for Musicology
Mark Connor: Contrasting Periods
Kyle Gann: PostClassic
Victor Grauer: Music 000001
Philip Gentry: 2'23"
Elina Hamilton
Nicol Hammond: Singing South African-ness
Linda Kernohan (Miss Music Nerd)
Michael Monroe: MMmusing
musicology / matters
Brent Reidy: musikwissenbloggenschaft
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
Tim Rutherford-Johnson: The Ramble
Greg Sandow
Scott Spiegelberg: Musical Perceptions
Systematic Musicology
The Taruskin Challenge
Evan Tobias: Catalysts & Connections (expanding dialogue in music education)
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Folk Music and Ethnomusicology
African TreasuresArchives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University)
Ethnic Musical Instruments Co.
Carousel Publications Ltd.
(no-frames version)
Digelius Music
Dirty Linen
Elbruz Caucasian Folk Dance Ensemble
English Folk and Traditional Music
Ethnomusicology at Ohio State
Institute for Traditional Studies
Irish World Music Centre
Jamtlandica.com (Jamtlandic Folk Music)
Musical Traditions
KiwiFolk: Folk and Acoustic Music in New Zealand
Nysernet Folk Music:
Sacred Harp singing
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Alegria - The Mexican Folklorico Home PageCantos do Brasil - Brazilian art song
International Hispanic Study Group
LAMC: Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music (Catholic University of America)
Latin American Music Center
Revista Eletronica de Musicologia
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Amazon RadioAMS Committee on the Status of Women
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930
The Rebecca Clarke Society
Dame Ethel Smyth
Hildegard von Bingen (UNC)
Hildegard von Bingen (Classical Net Site)
The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
The Kapralova Society
New York Women Composers
Clara Schumann Home Page
Barbara Strozzi
Elinor Remick Warren
Recordings & Educational Materials on Music & Women in Music
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American Orff-Schulwerk AssociationCenter for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH)
ClassiCat: Software Catalogue
Electronic Courseware Systems
International Centre for Research in Music Education at the University of Reading (UK)
Lime: Macintosh-Based Notation Software
MuSICA: The Music and Science Information Computer Archive
Music Educators National Conference
Music Teacher International (magazine)
Organization of American Kodaly Educators
Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education (SRPMME)
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Australian Music Therapy AssociationNational Association of Music Therapy
Musicians and Injuries
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Brian Jordan Music
Digital Beethoven House, Bonn
Royal Holloway's Forthcoming Conferences in Music List
Find-a-Grave
The King's Court (Christian music)
Music Under Soviet Rule
Musicological Fiction (dynamic list coordinated by the AMS)
Pentatonic Music Collection
Polish Music Reference Center (USC)
Social Security Death Index (over 79,000,000 death records)
Irwin Spector (Jacques Dalcroze specialist) web site
The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE)
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Funny Music Stuff (Access At Your Own Risk)
Instrument Jokes (1)Instrument Jokes (2)
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All-Music GuideAmerican Music Resource
Bibliography and Cross References (Auricle)
ClassicalHub.com
The "Ever Expanding Web Music Listing"
Internet Resources for Music Scholars
JM Music Links
The Leo Music Archive
List of Musical Mailing Lists
A List of Musical Discussion Lists
Music Link Central
Music Resources on the Internet (Indiana University)
SKDesigns: Music Resources on the Web, Classical and Jazz
Online Music References
Obituaries: Music-related current necrology (Washington Univ. listings)
World Music Store
Yahoo: Music (and)
Yahoo: Genres: Classical Music
Music Stands Alone
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How to Contact U.S. Elected Officials and Government Funding Agencies
The White HouseThe United States House of Representatives
The United States Senate
The State Legislatures
The National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Humanities Alliance
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