Music Research Guide--College of St. Catherine Libraries

American Choral Directors Association
ChoralNet: From the International Federation for Choral Music
The Lied and Song Texts Page: An archive of public-domain texts of art songs. Includes some translations of texts.

Recordings

allmusic (AMG All-Music Guide)

Biographies, reviews, recording credits, and essays on classical and popular music

Gramophone: The Classical Music Website

Live Music Archive

Provides recordings high-quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution.

Ethnomusicology

Society for Ethnomusicology


Africa: Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University; The African Music Encyclopedia

Southeast Asia: American Gamelan Institute; Bali & Beyond

Latin America: Latin American Music Center at Indiana University

Jazz

The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A history of jazz before 1930, with streaming audio
WNUR-FM JazzWeb
Satchmo.net: The official site of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives

Music education

American Orff-Schulwerk Association
K-12 Resources for Music Educators
MENC (Music Educators National Conference) Organization of American Kodály Educators
Technology Institute for Music Educators

Music history & musicology

American Memory Collections: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress
American Music Resource: Contains bibliographies, lists, Internet links and text files covering all styles of American music
American Musicological Society
Classical Net: Provides information about composers and their works, a classical CD buying guide, bibliographies, sound recording reviews, and more.
Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine: This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from a collection of 78 RPM discs.
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection at Johns Hopkins University
The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance: A performing arts digital library, formerly known as "I Hear America Singing," featuring scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials at the Library of Congress
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digital Mozart Edition: The musical text and the critical commentary of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausga made freely available to the public for personal study and for educational and classroom use by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum

Opera

Aria Database: Provides basic information about more than 1,200 operatic arias, including voice range, synopsis, translations, and MIDI files.
Operabase
The Opera Glass: An opera information server, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, and pictures.
The Opera Schedule Server
Operissimo: A searchable database of operas, performers, composers, and opera houses

Organizations & associations

American Choral Directors Association
American Federation of Musicians
American Musicological Society
American Orff-Schulwerk Association
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers)
BMI: BMI is a music performing rights organization representing more than 100,000 songwriters and composers and 50,000 music publishers with a repertoire of over 2,500,000 works. Includes a song title database and information about music business.
International Choral Federation
Music Educators National Conference
Music Library Association
Music Publishers Association: Includes a directory of music publishers and information about copyright
Organization of American Kodaly Educators
Society for Ethnomusicology

Reference tools

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
The Golden Pages: University music departments' and faculties' home pages
Copyright for Music Librarians from the Music Library Association
Music FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions lists for music-related USENET newsgroups
Music Necrology File at Washington University in St. Louis: Lists death dates and bibliographical references to obituaries for people of interest in music who have died since about 1991
Music School Address Book list at the University of Alabama

Music in Minneapolis & St. Paul

American Composers Forum (formerly the Minnesota Composers Forum)
Chamber Music Society of Minnesota
Dale Warland Singers Irish Music and Dance Association
Minnesota Orchestra
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Pepper of Minneapolis: The division of J.W. Pepper, music distributors, located in Eden Prairie
Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
The Schubert Club
Twin Cities Jazz Society

Song Indexes

Anoka County Library Songbook Index
Digital Tradition Folk Song Database on the Mudcat Cafe
Index to Arias and Art Songs in Collections (University of Washington)
University of Tennessee's Song Index
An index to songs in our over 1400 song anthologies.

Popular Song Index (Arizona State University)

Women in music

Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930: Includes more than 5,000 titles
International Alliance for Women in Music
Society of Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women
Women Composers and Women's Music list at Indiana University Music Library

Indexes to music-related websites

Internet Public Library: Music

MusicSearch: A searchable, categorized list of more than 8,500 music-related sites on the Internet
Online Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University
Worldwide Internet Music Resources from the IU Music Library
Sibelius Academy
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists from the American Musicological Society
Yahoo