American Memory: Library of Congress
Thirty digital collection covering a wide variety of American Music from: folk fiddle music, jazz, Chatauquas, Woody Guthrie and various cultures of Native American music, a huge collection of nineteenth century sheet music to Copland and Bernstein.
Arcadia Early Music Resources
Medieval, renaissance, baroque and classical periods resources
Developed by Gordon Callon, professor of music history at Arcadia University
Detailed timeline excellent composer resources
Classical Music Navigator
Organizes music history by genre, title, instrumentation and nationality of composer
444 composers biographies plus their works and influences
Glossary of terms
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online (DDM-Online)
Bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in:
musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, plus musical, scientific, and humanistic
disciplines
Over 10,800 records
Includes contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Grove Music
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online, periodically updated
Also includes: New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
National Sound Archive
Entries for almost 2,500,000 recordings held in the British Library National Sound Archive
Genres from pop, jazz, classical and world music, to oral history, drama and literature
Performing Arts in America 1875-1923
Resources from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center:
Broadway theater, composers, sheet music, Tin Pan Alley and more in original documents
Quirky Music Reference
Bibliography of reference sources containing unusual or unexpected information
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