Resources by Subject - Music

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Music information sources on the World Wide Web can be accessed through the links below. These are only a selection of some of the available resources. By using the search engines or information gateways immediately below, you will find many more.
Search Engines Information Gateways Composers
Dissertations Early Music Ethnomusicology
Jazz Miscellaneous Music Education
Music Theory Opera Organisations
Other Resource Lists Research Song Lyrics
Women in Music E-journals Electronic Services

SEARCH ENGINES

There are numerous search engines on the World Wide Web. Here are some of the better ones:

AltaVista          Classical Search           InFIND            Mamma          MetaCrawler          MusicSearch               


INFORMATION GATEWAYS

Information gateways work in a similar way to library catalogues, in that they allow you to search for information on a specific topic and then direct you to relevant resources on the World Wide Web. They help you to find quality information quickly on the subject you are looking for.

COMPOSERS

For an A-Z listing of classical composer websites, follow the links provided by LookSmart.  There are three categories to choose from: Early & Baroque, Classical & Romantic, or 20th Century.

For more composer information, try also:      WWW Virtual Library: Classical Music: Composers

Below are links to some recommended individual composer sites:

Bach        Beethoven        Brahms        Britten        Cage
Chopin        Elgar        Handel        Haydn        Liszt
Maxwell Davies        Mozart        Satie        Schoenberg        Schubert
Stockhausen        Stravinsky        Tavener        Tchaikovsky        Wagner


DISSERTATIONS


EARLY MUSIC


ETHNOMUSICOLOGY


JAZZ

  • Use LookSmart’s Jazz, Blues and R&B A-Z to locate web sites devoted to the musician you are interested in.

  • WNUR-FM JazzWeb offers sections on jazz styles, artist bios, performance (venues, reviews, etc), jazz instruments, media (radio, television, press), jazz musicianship and much more, including links to other jazz resources on the internet.

MISCELLANEOUS


MUSIC EDUCATION

  • CTI Music, part of the Computers in Teaching Initiative, works to maintain and enhance the quality of music education and to increase the effectiveness of music teaching through the application of appropriate learning technologies. The CTI Music web page offers publications, services and many useful Web links.

MUSIC THEORY


OPERA

  • New Grove Dictionary of Opera Online contains access to 11,000 articles from around the world, as well as links to over 550 images. Subject areas include composers, social history, conductors and directors, opera houses, costumes, choreography and set design. N.B. Password not required. [Only available from the College network]  Requires Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 5

  • Public-Domain Opera Libretti provides links to the full text of numerous opera libretti and other vocal texts in the public domain. Other links to opera-related web resources are also included.

  • Web resources on Opera, Opera Companies, and Musical Theatre can be accessed from the web site of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music.


SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

The following societies and organisations have their own web sites, where you can find out about them and also follow their own themed links to other sites:

OTHER USEFUL LISTS OF WWW RESOURCES

  • Arts & Humanities:Music is a long list of useful web links provided by WebData, an Internet Database Portal. Each site listed is given a rating.

  • Classical Net’s Classical Music Informational Sites is a very useful set of link pages, arranged in topic order.

  • The Golden Pages : Links for musicians on the WWW, maintained by the University of London, Royal Holloway. Over 275 music links are provided.

  • The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) , run from the University of Glasgow, collects and encourages the use of digital data resources to support teaching and research in the performing arts. There are sections on Music and Dance, containing many useful links.

  • The Sibelius Academy in Finland provides a very impressive list of music sites. You can link through to jazz, blues, pop and rock, famous composers, gospel, instruments, theory, research, opera and much more besides.

  • Worldwide Internet Music Resources is a comprehensive site maintained by librarians at the Indiana University School of Music. There is an alphabetical listing of links to sites devoted to musicians of all genres and pop groups. Other links include: groups and ensembles (except for popular), performance-related sites, composers and composition, genres and types of music, plus music journals and magazines, newspapers and periodicals.


RESEARCH

  • The Institute for Music Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio exists to promote research in the areas of music technology and music psychology. Their web page offers various useful links.

  • Internet Resources for Music Scholars , a site maintained by the Music Library at Harvard University, also provides some useful research-related links.


SONG LYRICS

  • The Digital Tradition Folk Song Database is a searchable database containing the lyrics to over 6,500 folk songs. You can also browse by song title.

  • On The Electronic Hymnal Home Page you will find the music and lyrics for hymns, church music, sacred songs and devotionals.

  • J.S.Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentary provides text and translations of Bach's vocal compositions including cantatas, hymns, masses, oratorios and songs.  

  • The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University includes over 29,000 pieces of music and concentrates on popular American music from the period 1780-1960. You can either search or browse the collection. An image of the front cover, along with each page of music, can be retrieved where the music was published before 1924 and is in the public domain.

  • The Lied and Song Texts Page contains an archive of about ten thousand texts to Kunstlieder and other art songs in many different languages. You can search by composer, poet, title or first line.

  • Use Lyrics World to locate the lyrics to pop songs from the last seven decades. You can browse by artist or by decade, or go through a list of number one hits.


WOMEN IN MUSIC


ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

There are various music-related electronic journals available on the World Wide Web. You can access full-text articles from either the latest issue or an archive of past issues.

Critical Musicology Journal Electronic Musicological Review
Ethnomusicology OnLine Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
Music & Anthropology Music Theory Online


ELECTRONIC SERVICES

  • BHInet, the online version of the British Humanities Index, contains abstracts from daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals, dating back to 1984. Subject coverage includes the arts, literature, cinema and music. For a list of music periodicals indexed on BHInet, click here. N.B. The service is only available from the College network.  [No password required]

  • IIMP (International Index to Music Periodicals) is a service on the World Wide Web which allows you to search for references to published articles from over 375 music periodicals. Each reference is accompanied by an abstract which tells you more about the article in question. For a list of the journals indexed on this service, click here. N.B. The service is only available from the College network.  [No password required]

  • PCI (Periodicals Contents Index) Full Text is another online periodicals search service on the Web. Coverage on PCI extends from the first year of publication up to and including 1990. You can even find references to articles published in journals as far back as the nineteenth century. As of this year, some full-text journals are to be added to this service. For a list of Music periodicals indexed on PCI Full Text, click here.  N.B. The service is only available from the College network.  [No password required]

  • Web of Science (ISI service) is a service on the World Wide Web which allows you to search by subject for periodical article references and then email the resulting references to yourself. Using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index within WoS, you can search for references to articles on Music. Coverage is from 1981 to the present. For a list of Music periodicals indexed on WoS, click here. N.B. To access this ISI service, you will need to obtain a personal ATHENS account.

Suggestions for additional links are welcome!


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