Selected Resources

General | Encyclopedias | Composers | Music Education | Music Distributors: Recordings | Music Distributors: Scores | Databases of Downloadable Scores | Vocal music | Brass music | Choral music | Rock music | Musical Theater | Ethnomusicology | Piano Pedagogy | Music theory | Music Organizations | Copyright | Other useful links |


General/Gateway sites

• Indiana University School of Music (many useful links)
• Washington University in St. Louis (many useful links)
• Classical Net Home Page
• Classical Music on the Net
• Music Resources from the Sibelius Academy
• Librarians Internet Index: Music

Encyclopedias

• Grove Music Online

Composers

• Composer links (Indiana University)
• Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
• Bach Bibliography
• Bach Autograph Scores (digitized)
• Beethoven-Haus, Bonn (extensive)
• Beethoven Bibliography (San Jose State)
• Hector Berlioz Website
• Mozart (Neue-Mozart Ausgabe)

Music Education

• MENC (Music Educators National Conference)
• West Music

Music Distributors: Recordings

• Amazon.com
• Tower Records
• Music Library Service Company (Basic Music Library Listings)
• H&B Recordings Direct
• Mark Custom Recordings
• GUITAR recordings (GSP)
• SAXOPHONE recordings (Dorn)
• JAZZ recordings (EJazzlines)



• Out of Print and Used CDs
  • BerkshireRecordOutlet
  • GEMM
  • Alibris (can limit to search for CDs)
  • MusicStack
  • SecondSpin
  • Anna Seaberg's Web Resources for Out-of-Print Sound Recordings
    
    
• European Distributors
  • Cheap or What! CDs (United Kingdom)
  • Compact Disk Europe (Europe)
  • CyberCD (Germany)

Music Distributors: Scores

• J.W. Pepper
• Theodore Front
• T.I.S. Music Catalog
• Hal Leonard Corp.
• Edwin F. Kalmus (publisher)
• G. Henle, Inc. (USA)
• Southern Music
• Luck's Music (orchestral music from publishers worldwide)
• Wind Music Plus
• BRASS scores (Thompson Edition)
• CLARINET scores (Luybens)
• GUITAR scores (GSP)
• SAXOPHONE scores (Dorn)
• PIANO PEDAGOGY and Scores (Burt and Co.)
• Casalini Libri

Databases of Downloadable Scores

• Choral Public Domain Library
• Classical Scores Library
• Mozart scores (Neue Ausgabe)
• Vocal scores online (Indiana University)
• Werner Icking Music Archive (European composers)
• Christmas carol music
• Christmas songs

Vocal Music

• Song Index (Univ. of Tennessee)
• Aria Database
• Aria and Art Song Index (Univ. of Washington)
• Vocal scores online (Indiana University)
• Popular Song Index (Univ. of Washington)

Brass Music

• International Trumpet Guild
• International Trombone Association
• International Horn Society
• Robert King Music

Choral Music

• Choral Public Domain Library
• ChoralNet

Rock music

• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Musical Theater

• Broadway: The American musical (PBS)

Ethnomusicology

• Univ. of Washington Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music site

Piano Pedagogy

• Burt and Co. (Piano Pedagogy and Scores)

Music Theory

a. General or gateway sites

• Robert Frank's Theory-on-the-Web (great site!)
• Powerpoint to accompany Kamien's Music Appreciation (3rd ed)
• Music Theory Resources (First Aid for Struggling Students)
• Larry Solomon's Music Theory and Analysis Site
• Standing Stones Music Theory Corner
• Teoria.com
• Ricci Adams' Music Theory.net
• Music Theory.com
• Dr. Brian Blood's Music Theory Online

b. Theory Instructional Materials (quizzes, textbooks exercises, drills)

• Harnum's Basic Music Theory (Free theory textbook)
• Music Theory.com (practice drills)
• Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory (includes theory lessons and quizzes)
• HitSquad (music theory instruction shareware)
• Port Washington High School Music Theory Help (very basic music fundamentals help, quizzes)

c. Music Examples (in downloadable form, including MP3, MIDI)

• Hymn Tune Archive (CCEL) (downloadable hymns and chants)
• Classical Music Archives (lots of classical MIDI files)

d. Ear Training

• HitSquad (Ear training shareware)
• Big Ears, the Original Online Ear Trainer

Music Organizations

• College Music Society
• American Musicological Society

Copyright

• Copyright for Music Librarians (Music Library Assn.)
• Nolo.com

Other useful links

• Schools of Music (international directory)
• Music Librarianship (Simmons College website)